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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

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talk before the high school Monday
forenoon.
Mrs. George Lang received a mes
sage this morning announcing the
death of her brother, Edmund Slay-
ton, who lived in Los Angeles, Calf.
Mr.. Slayton was young man about
35 and was employed in the Lang
store here at one time.
The selectmen of the town of Bar
ton will meet at the town clerks Of
fee Monday, January 9th, 1919, at
10 o'clock a. m for the purpose of
settling accounts. Anyone having
any bills against the Town of Barton
is requested to present them at that
time.
An oyster supper and donation for
the benefit of the Rev. NJ A. Turner
day evening, Jan. 18th. Supper will
be served from $50 until all are
served. A musical entertainment will
be given after the supper. Every
body is cordially invited.
o. B. Willard had the misfortune
to lose one of his horses in the lake
Saturday afternoon. Teams have
been drawing wood from across the
lake and this team broke through the
ice with the load One of the horses
was drowned but with plenty of help
the other horse and the load were
saved.
Mrs. Stella A Goodro, district dep
uty president of District No. 5, was
in Newport Friday evening 10 install
the officers of Morning Star Rebekah
Lodge No. II. She was accompanied
by G. W Goodro, Mr.. and Mrs. u
II. Brunning, Mr.. and Mrs. A. A Lar
abee. Mrs. Laura McFarlane and Mrs
r. F. Mason.
There viii be a meeting Of the Bar
ton Branch of the New England Mill
Producers association at Batchelder's
hall Jan. 25, at 1.30 o'clock D. m. The
county agent win be present and give
a talk on the milk question. also an
other speaker from out Of the cOun.
u. All members are requested u
be present. All not members are IN.
vited 70 join.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
BROWNINGTON CENTER

Mr.. and Mrs. T. G. Crandall have
been i'll the past week.
Mrs. Charlie Gallup visited her
parents in Newport Friday.
Walter Young has gone TO Island
Pond, where he expects to find en-
ployment.
Miss Glenn Fuller of Orleans has
been visiting at the home of her
uncle, E. A. Robinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Seymour cele-
brated their 29th wedding anniver-
sary at their home Saturday evening.
VIM. Stevens, who lives in the east
part of town had the misfortune TO
lose his barn, stock, hay, etc, by fire
Thursday.
The selectmen and the civil board
will meet at the town clerks office
Jan. 28th, and the auditors will meet
the 29th at the same place TO examine
accounts against the town
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
Williams Fined $500 and Costs.

Frank c. Williams, state bank COM
missioner, was sentenced to pay a
fine of $500 and costs by Judge Zed
S. Stanton Friday in Washington
county court for malfeasance in Of
fee, of which he was found guilty by
a jury last week. Bail of $4,000 was
continued and sentence was stayed,
as the case passes to supreme court
on exceptions.
Williams was indicted for failure
to report alleged shorta ges in the ac-
counts of Governor Graham while
state auditor, totaIing, it is alleged,
about $4,000. Frank PIumley, his
counsel, in addressing the court on
the question of sentence, said that if
it was true that the man he trusted
betrayed the trust, by trying his
client first he was made the Escape
goat"
Atty. Gen. Herbert G. Barber did
not ask for Imprisonment but re-
Cuested the court to impose a SEN
tanCe which would show that ''hon-
esty and efficiency in the discharge of
public duty is the standard of Yer
mont"
Judge Stanton, who was visibly af-
fected when pronouncing sentence,
said that at least to one member of
the court it was an unpleasant duty.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
County News.

The petitions which -noaYe been cir
cuIated recently in the 80 states
which do not have full suffrage for
women, asking for the ratification of
a federal suffrage amendment, had
the following results in Orleans coun-
ty: Barton, 90 signatures of men
and women, Bloomington %, Evans
vile 18, Derby Line Is, Coventry 81,
West Glover 10, North Craftsbury 40,
Greensboro Bend 25, Irasburg ia
Morgan 80, Newport Center 10, New
port 81, Morgan so, Lowell 25, Or
leans 321, total of e1g names of
women who wish to vote and of men
who are willingthat they shall.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
EVANSVILLE

Henry Trescott is reported as not
being as well.
Oscar Lyon visited at H. J. Con-
verses Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Moore are
sick with influenza.
Mrs. L. A. Drown is caring for
David Morrison of Orleans.
Mrs. Urban Spencer and Marie La
,,.,ierre are sick with influenza,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lapierre visit
ed in Barton one day last week.
Mrs. Marcella Marshall visited
Mrs. Nettie Marshall the past week.
Clarence Tracy recently went to
Boston, where he has employment in
store.
The Rev. and Mrs. l. P. Chase vis-
Friday.
Mrs. Bertha Bishop and little son
of Woodsville are visiting at Joseph
Baldwin's.
---...G-cL ,Eo-tc:th Of Newport Wis
tied her father, w. J. Monteith the
past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Devereaux Wis
tied their son, o. A Devereaux, of
Albany, Sunday.
Arthur Miles was home from Derby
Line and Mrs. Miles from Orleans
for the weekend.
Elsie Skinner is home from Iras-
burg, her school being closed on ac-
count of sickness.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. White visited
their daughter, Mrs. Joel Whitcomb,
one day last week.
Ernest Neddow has received his
| discharge and returned home from
Camp Humphreys, Va.
Will Stevens barn burned Satur-
| day afternoon, burning six cows, two
| horses and farming tools. Much sym
pathy is felt for Mr.. Stevens people.
Roland Hill of the 333d U. S. Fire
and Guard Co., Camp Mills, n. Y, re-
Gently received his discharge and has
/ been visiting in town before return
J ing to his work in Boston.
| Services at the NJ. E. church Sun
I day at 1O.45. First half hour, song
and praise service. Subject of ser
mon, "To Whom Do You Belong"
I A cordial invitation TO all. /. p.
4 Chase, pastor.
The pupils of the seventh and
eighth grades of the school held de-
bate at the schoolhouse Friday af-
/ ternoon, subject, Resolved that we
+ feed Germany" Their papers show
F ed very careful study and research.
The affirmative side won.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

Miss Marjorie Fisk is visiting
friends in town.
Hrs. H. J. Stannard of Orleans was
in town Saturday.
Mrs. Sarah Fox Is spending some
time at S. A. Hunts.
Senator Hamblet was home from
Montpelier over Sunday.
A. S. Drew and W. a. - pm are a.
Newport serving on q jury
John Smith is sick with pneumonia
at his home on High street.
Miss SaIlie Cowles spent several
days n Greensboro last week.
4 daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Adolphus Valley recently.
Maurice Smith returned Saturday
night from Brightlook hospital.
Social dance, Orleans Opera House,
Thursday evening, Jan. %, 1919.
Mrs. Fora Wheeler is again at work
in the Office of the J. W. Murkland
Co.
Miss Clio Going has been spending
a few days with friends in st. Johns
bury.
Several members of the family Of
Mr., Labor, have been i'll the past
week.
H. W. Patterson of Camp Meade,
Md, was in town the first CT the
week.
Miss Roseanna Jutras spent the
weekend in St. Johnsbury with rel
atives.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. F. Hunter of Bur-
lington called on friends in town on
Tuesday.
Miss Yolande Blair is taking ten
day furlough from her duties in the
postofice.
Mrs. 1. A. Ranney of Hardwick is
the guest of friends in town for sew
eral days.
Mrs. Wilson of Boston came Satur-
day night to help care for her sister
1 Mrs. 6. P. Jenness.
/ Mrs. Lucretia Alexander and Mrs
] Hollis Allard were in Newport or
/ business last week
Angelo Bona has received his mill
tary discharge and returned this
week from Camp Devens.
Mr.. and Mrs W. ]. Goss and daugh
! ter of Newport were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. F. D. Pierce over Sunday.
The weather for more than weel
past has been exceedingly springhke
and practically no snow has fallen.
Mrs. Myrtle Utton and children o.
/ Newport visited at the home of hel
sister, Mrs R. NJ Gilmour, Satur
day.
Miss Jennie Vezina has come from
( Canada TO keep house for her broth
er, H, J, Vezina, who lives on th'
Corley farm.
The many friends of Miss Laur;
Case will be glad to know that SIT
has so far improved as 10 be able L
sit up little.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Tinker AM
family have moved from George Ka
tens house into the DR.. Wright blOcl
on High street.
4 large party Of high school stu
dents enjoyed q straw ride to Orlean
Wednesday evening and attended tn
moving pictures.
New books have been received a
the library and viii be ready for dis
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
Rebekah Installation at Barton.

The following officers elect and in
stalled in Sunbeam Rebekah Lodge
were installed Tuesday eve
no - Goodro, D. D. P, of
District No. 5: P. G., M
Mason; n. G. Mrs. Alice Jarvis: y.
G., Mrs. Laura Mcfarland; Sec, Mrs.
Stella Goodro; Treas, Martin Brun-
ming; chaplain, Mrs. Barbara Brun-
ming; warder, Mrs. Lila Burdick;
Cond., Mrs. Mary Page; R. S. of n.
G., Mrs. Annie Larabee; L. S. of n.
G., Mrs. Hattie Hopkins; R. S. of V.
G., Miss Mildred Dunn;L. S. of V. G.,
Mrs. Fora Wheeler; l. G., Mrs. Ger
trude Cassidy; o. G., Miss Mamie
Locke; pianist, Mrs. Pearl Lewis. A
fine banquet was served at $50. Wis
itors from the Morning Star Lodge,
Newport, were Mrs. Waite Rogers,
Mrs. Mildred Bowney, Mrs. Grace
Morrow, Mrs. Ella Wallace, Mrs. Mae
Leayitt, Mrs. Efie Lockhart and Mrs.
Lillian Fish,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
Major and Minor Prophets.

The major prophets Of the Old Testa-
rnent were Isaiah. Jeremiah, Ezekiel
ard Daniel. The Old Testament books
contain fhelr prophecies. The minor
prophets Of the group Of Old Teata-
Inent writer's from HOsea - Malachi
are so called because Of the breylty Of
their prophecies. Malachi vas the last
OF tie nlaor prophets.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
Advises Keeping Control of Local
Telephone Lines.

Mr.. Editor:
l note with interest the telephone
controversy and l think the n. E. T.
Co. are unreasonable in their de-
mands on Orleans county and to ena-
bic you to make comparisons as to
rates and service, Springfield, Mass,
has over 1920 subscribers and go
branch exchanges and the rates run
from S25 year for three-party line
to 500 for a one-party business line.
The company may claim less line per
but remember city lines are
and the cost is high to
install and maintain in paved streets.
| hope you will see fit to keep con-
troll of the little village exchange
which had its beginning in what /
was the first Independent line
IN Vermont, when / installed phone
IN my Office and one in the depot. Hop
ng these figures will help you, ] am,
Yours truly,
c. F. Perciva1.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
TO RENT

TO RENT-First class tenement,
Lincoln avenue, rooms and pantry,
flush closet, two large closets, large
veranda, large woodshed in base
ment. Garden, storm windows,
screens. H. c. Gay. 3f
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
Congregational Church Notes.
Rev. ". 4. Warner, Pastor.

nv W 4 WarneT1 FastOr.
Sunday, January 26th
lO.z5, Morning service.
200, Sunday school.
500, Christian Endeavor meeting.
zoo, Preaching service.
The regular mid-week prayer meet
2g on Thursday evening at 7.3O.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head at ttDo cents per word for first insertion
and one cent per word thereafter. Cash
must accOmpa the order. No udUeTttse-
n1eHt l1iII be inserted for less than tIreHty-fUe
cents rIE a& 7Tsg II
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
WILLOUGHBY

Pvt. Arthur Dodge, son Of Mr. and
Mrs. James Dodge, has been at home
a few days past. He has been IN
overseas service since August. 1917,
and was wounded by shrapnel.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

Tn annual donation Of the NJ. T..
church was held at the church We'd
nesday evening, Jan. 18th. Proceeds
$50. After the supper, the Rev.
Coontz Of Newport gave very inter
esting talk on the subject, "The Big
Stick and the Square Deal" Mr.
Coontz was entertained at the par
sonage.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

Kitchen help, also an
al1-around man. Valley House, Or
leans. 2tf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
Filter Peanut Oil.

C0refned peanut oil can be prepared
Tor household use by fItering through
ordina-- filter papers obtainable al
drug stores.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
WANTED-WOmeD

WANTED-WOmen Tor DEPART
ment work such as family cook, din
ing room, dormitory, caretaker of
girls. for a training school. Good
salary for reliable people. For par
ticulars write, ". G. Fancher, Supt.,
Lawrence, Mass. 3-4
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

WANTED-Farm superintendent
and herdsman in training school, best
habits, good caretaker, experienced,
ability to obtain results. Salary 5000
10 $1,000 and maintenance to begin. If
married, wife to fill a position with
salary. No children. ". G. Fancher,
Supt., Lawrence, Mass. 81
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
FOUND

FOUND-Box of silver spoons be-
tween Irasburg and Orleans. Owner
can have same by proving property
and paying charges. Don Switzer,
Irasburg 1w
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
WANTED

WANTED-Live poultry. Eirick
Barton. 1877
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

FOR SALE-As my business calls
me from Orleans the larger part Of
the time I offer for sale my meadow
and small pasture in Orleans villa ~e
Also my business block on Main ST.,
consisting of two stores, two tene-
ments and stable in rear. Inquire
of H W. Buchanan, Barre, VT. Hotel
Barre. 2tf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

WANTED-A position as house
keeper in a small family. Box 124,
Orleans Twp
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
Iiewed Reviewed
and
Interviewed
bu A. g. Glomerate

A special column that will appear
from time to time in this paper, con-
tanning short paragraphs about
everybody and everything-some of
your own acquaintance and ranging
from the sublime to the ridiculous.
You are invited to contribute.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

WANTED-Dressed hogs and fresh
eggs, also live poultry next Tuesday
at Orleans. Express station. E. S.
Kelley, Tel. 1878, Orleans. 49tf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
MISCELLANEOUS

NOTICE-Pupils taken for piano
instruction. Open for engagement
evenings. Call for demonstration.
Fred Brooks, Barton. 2-4p
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

FOR SALE-10 H. P. Woodpecker
gasoline engine, one H. P. Sampson
power, one hand derrick. John Barn
ard, Barton. Stiff
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
FOR SALE

FOR Cheap, one Ohio g.
horse engine, mostly new. B. J.
Humphrey, Orleans, VT, r. No. 3. 4-6
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

FOR SALE-House and barn,
thoroughly built and in excellent re-
pair, all modern convenienees, Kelsey
furnace, set tubs, conveniently ar
ranged and located on a large corner
lot on South street. Roy D. Skinner,
Orleans, Vt. 52tf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

Il have shown them that / am not
coward and now it remains to be
seen whether | am a knave," is said
to be Horace Graham's comment up
on his appearance before the joint
session of the legislature to deliver
his farewell address.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

Read Farm Bureau Notes on page 8
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

FOR SALE OR RENT-Double
tenement with barn and garden plot
All modern improvements, thorough
ly built and always rented. Well To-
Gated in Barton village. Inquire of
W. N. Wright, agent, Barton. 2tf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22

''Some people say they don't adver-
tise because everyone knows where
their stores are. Everyone knows
where the cemetery is but they don't
go there very often" observes the
North Adams Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-22
BARTON

Miss Marjorie Fisk is visiting
friends in town.
hrs. H. J. Stannard of Orleans was
in town Saturday.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-16
CHAPTER III.

Until he reached the age of twelve
Georges education was a domestic
process: tutors came TO the house.
and those citizens who yearned for his
taking down often said: "Just wait till
he has &c so to public school; then
he'll get It'll" But at twelve George
was sent to a private school in the
town, and there came from this small
and independent institution no report,
or even rumor, Of Georges getting
anything that he was thought TO de-
serve; therefore the yearning still per
sisted, though growing gaunt with
feeding upon itself.
The yearnerS were still yearning
when George at sixteen was sent
away 10 a great prep school,"
Now" they said brightly, hell get
It'll He'll find himself among BOYS lust
as important In their home town as he
is, and they'll knock the stuffing out
of him when he puts on his airs with
themI on. but that would be worth
something 20 seer They were mis-
taken. il appeared, for when George
returned a few months later he still
seemed to have the same stuffing. He
had been deported by the authorities.
the offense being stated as ''insolence
and profanity" In fact, be had given
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-16
LIVE IN PRIMITIVE STATE
Tribes In Interior of Venezuela Have
Had Little Contact With
Civilization.

Almost every tribe and race has
found the secret of fire, even though
civilization has not come near them
Needless to say, matches are unknown
except as they have been carried into
distant lands by white men, and ire is
made by rubbing sticks together, with
a sort of flint and finder or, as in the
case of the Macaos. with drill.
These people of the mist" as the
explorers into the interior of Venezuela
call them, keep their fires burning
steadily from one years end to an
other, but if a new one is needed 1t Is
started by drilling into wood until 1t
bursts into flame.
The Macaos share the Indians love
of painting their faces and, like Them
use bow and arrow for hunting. but go
about swathed in heavy clothing, much
like that of the Arabs, because OF the
cold of the region in which they live.
The homes of the MacaoS are all
built on hilltops. and the average alt-
tude of the settlement is $500 feet.
They cultivate sweet potatoes, ba-
nanas and maize, out of a combination
of which they make a very strong fer
mented drink for use at feasts, and
they are also exceedingly clever at
basketry and other weaving, but are
among the most uncleanly of all tribes
and never, so it is said, take a bath
unless unexpectedly caught out in
rain.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-16

state; and he failed to comprehend
that the distasteful glances had any
personal bearing upon himself. If be
had perceived such bearing he would
have been affected only so far, prob
ably, as to nutter, "Rlffraff" Pos
sihly he would have shouted it; and
certainly most people believed a story
that went round the town just after
Mrs. Amberson's funeral, when Geor-
gle was eleven. George was reported
TO have differed with the undertaken
about the seating of the family; his
indignant voice had become audible:
well, who is the most important per-
son at my own grandmother's fu-
neral7" And later he had projected
his head from the window OF the fore
most mourners' carriage, as the under
taker happened to pass.
''RiffraffI"
There were people-grown people
they were-~ho expressed themselves
longingly: they did hope to live TO see
the day, they said, when that bow
would get his come-upance! (They
used that honest word, so much bet
ter than deserts" and not until many
years later to be more clumsily rem
dered as what is coming to him.")
Something was bound to take him
down some day. and they only wanted
TO be therel But George heard moth
ing of this. and the yearners for his
taking down went unsatisfied, while
their yearning grew the greater as the
happy day of fulfillment was longer
and longer postponed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-16
"0Id times starting all
over again! My Lord"
CTO BE CONTINUEDJ
PATHS OF PEACE
Aborigines of Texas Unlike the Fierce
Tribes of Other Sections of
the Country.

Stone implements found in ancient
workshops in Texas, anteGating
French, Spanish or American settlers,
prove that the original settlers of this
state were not like the fierce tribes
encountered in modern times by the
white settlers.
Little is known about the aboriginal
population of Texas, which lies be-
tween the Pueblo and mound builders
area, but DIR. j. Walter Fewkes, chief
of the American bureau of ethnOlogy,
aided by Professor Peace of the Uni.
versity of Texas, have located some
lOng-fOrgotten village sites. Their in
veStigatiOns lead to the belief that the
original people of the middle part of
the state were hunters, while those of
the eastern part near the timber belt,
were followers of agricultural pur-
suits and were skilled in the manufac-
ture of pottery. They resembled the
mound builders. The western part of
the state was more elevated and
less arid plateau. Here the people re-
sembled the PuebloS of New Mexico.
Some of the tribes are reported to
have been cannibals. In the opening
of the eighteenth century Apaches,
Comanches and other savage tribes
roamed over Texas. following the buff
falo, or raiding across it into Mexico.
There seems to have been constant
hostility with these Indians, in which
many smaller tribes were extermi-
mated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-16
CHAPTER ~.

The hero of the fete, with the dark
eyed little beauty upon his arm,
reached the top of the second flight of
stairs; and here, beyond a spacious
landing, where two proud-like darkies
tended a crystalline punch bowl, four
wide archways in a rOSe-vine lattice
framed gliding sifhouettes of walters,
already smoothly at it to the castanets
of ia Paloma." Old John Minafer,
evidently surfeited, was in the act of
leaving these delights escorted by a
middle-aged man of commonplace ap-
pearance. The escort had a dry, lined
face upon which, not ornamentally
but as a matter of course, there grew
business mans short mustache; and
his thin neck showed an Adams apple.
but not cOnspicuously, for there was
able part of this festival, and although
there were a dozen or more middle
aged men present, not casually to be
distinguished from him in general as
pect, he was probably the last person
in the big house at whom a stranger
would have glanced twice. 1t did not
enter Georges mind to mention to
Miss Morgan that this was his father,
or to say anything whatever about
him.
Mr.. Minafer shook his sons hand
unobtrusively in passing.
"Ill take Uncle John home" he
said in a low voice. "Then l guess
I'll go on home myself-Tm not a
great hand at parties, you know.
Good night, George"
George murmured friendly enough
good night without pausing. Ordi-
narily he was not ashamed of the Min