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Transpacific Mails.

Close at New York NJ PM as follows:
Hawaii Philippine Islands. French Indo-
China. Straits Settlements and speciality ad-
dressed correspondence for British India.
via San Francisco. 49, Creole State. Jan %.
Hawaii. via SAT. Francisco. str Manoa,
Jan %
japan Corea, China. Siberia, French
Indo-t china and Netherlands East Indies
Except Sumatra), via Vancouver and Vic
torla BC, str Montea rle. Feb g.
Japan, Corea, China, Siberia, French
Indo-C China. Netherlands East Indies (ex-
cept Sumatra) and Philippine Islands. via
Vancouver and Victoria BIC. str Empress
of Asia. Feb 3.
Hawaii Fiji Islands. New Zealand and
Australia. via Vancouver and Victoria.
Be, str Makura, Feb IA.
Must be specially addressed for this
steamer.
TParcel post mails and specially addressed
correspondence.
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AMERICAN PORTS.
IBY Mail.1

ASTORIA. O, Jan 2i--Arrived. str Maquan.
Seattle.
BREMERTON, Wash, Jan 20-Arrived, str
Brookline Norfolk via San Pedro.
HONOLULU, Jan 20-Sailed, str Maui,
Hilo ,
NEW BEDFORD. Mass, Jan 2i-Arrived
str Freeman. Portland for Norfolk
PORT ANGELES. Wash, Jan 2O-Sailed'
bark James Johnson, Adelaide.
PORT TAMPA, Fla, Jan 24-Salieo' schr
Vivian Pierce, Baltimore.
PORTLAND. Me. Jan 2S-Sailed, str cairn-
ny IAN ERANCisCO. Cal. Jan 20-Sailed,
strs Griffdu, Puerta Arenas; INLAY, San
SAN PEDRO. Cal. Jan 20-Arrived str
Cape Roman, Baltimore:
Sailed 10th. str Eldorado. Havana and New
Orleans
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DEPARTURE OF STEAMERS.
SAIL SATURDAY.
WIRELESS REPORTS.

Str Colon, Cristobal for New YORK. Is ex
pected to dock at pier /, Hoboken, Thurs
day morning.
Str Tivives, Crlstobal for New York is ex-
pected TO dock at pier 10, East River, Fri
day afternoon.
Str Liberty Melbourne. &C. fo~ Boston and
New York, expects to reac.i Boston noon
Saturday.
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eported 70 the Hydrographic office.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Red buoy established Jan 25. 1921. by
lighthouse tender Larkspur in 3 fathoms OF
water, 30 yards from dock, at the foot Of
215th street. Harlem River, TO mark sunken
coalboat, which Is awash at low water.
Wreck iays at right angles to dock and buoy
Is close TO outer end of wreck. Inner end
of wreck is about 10 feet from the dock.
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PIPING NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD

SEATTLE, Wash. Jan 26--Sailed, str
Julia Luckenbach. San Francisco.
Sailed 25tr str Steel Inventor, East Coast.
SAVANN Ill, Ga, Jan 26-Arrived. strs
Hanningtoi Court tBrJ, New Orleans: Grof
Khuen Hedervary 0taD. New York; Cty OF
Savannah, New York.
TAMPA, Fla. Jan 26-Arrived. schr Igo,
Ruatan-
Sailed Goth, str Charles + Harwood. Tam
WILMINGTON. NC. Jan 25-Arrived, str
Lake Fillmore, New York.
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DROPPING OF TIME BALL.

NEW YORK. Jan 2G-Tho time ball above
the Navigation and Marine Engineering
school OF the Seamens Church Institute. %
south street dropped to-day at exact noon,
18th meridian or hours slow OF Greenwich
mean time. Any one desiring correct Green
wich mean time telephone Broad 29I
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FOREIGN WEATHER CABLE.
GRAMS.

CAPE RACE. NF. Jan 26-Barometer al
Noon. $3.50 inches; wind, NV light breeze
weather, snow showers; temperature. 80 des
Fair.
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Bound East.
ohawk. New York for Boston.

Str Mohawk, New York for Boston.
Steam lighter Elva tat noon).
Tugs Ontario, with barges (at AND :
Roger Williams. with Cat 9:15 AND: Ethel
w Powell. with I (at $3.50 AND; Bulley.
with (at IL AND; Charles Creenough,
with Cat 2:25 PM) Bess, with Cat $3.50
PM).
Steam canalboat Lille Agnes cat eco
AND.
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BARBADOS, Jan 14-Arrived, schr VAL
kyrie. Cape Verde Islands.
DELAWARE BREAKWATER. Jan 20, 5
PM-Arrived, schr a Nicholson.
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PASSED CITY ISLAND.
Bound South.

Str Rosalind (Br), ST Johns, NE, and
Halifax for New York. to Bowring & Co,
with ~ passengers. mails and mdse
Str Delaware, Boston for New York.
Steam lighter Volunteer tat PM.
Tugs North America, with barges Cat
6:55 AND; Gedney. with . Cat 12:15 PM)
John Garrett. with (at 8 80 PM).
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Mails for South and Central Amer
lea, West Indies, &c.
THURSDAY, JANUARY .

THURSDAf, JANUAKh =.
Cape Hayti and Port au Prince (other
parts OF Hayti. Canal Zone, Panama and
Colombia ~ via Cape Hayti. Port au
Prince, Aux Cages. Cristobal Savanilla and
Cartagena, str Allianca IL NJ fsup l PM.
FRIDAY, JANUARY IS.
Hayti, also parcel post malls for Dutch
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EUROPE.


AMERICAN lift vans for moving household
furniture between Europe and America and
between cities In tho United states; house to
house without boxing. only safe, easy and
sensible method. BOWLING GREEN STOR-
AGE & VAN CO.. ts broadway. New York
80 ,OOn wanted for first mortgage
on manor estate I'm Germany; 600
acres land very we'll stocked; high
interest Wire II possible.
ERICH TTMkE.
Bremen. Contrescarpe O..
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MARrNE-FoR SALE OR WANTED.

ATTrNTIoN. sTEAMsHfP OPERATORS
Drand new steel steamship, 1880 tons
d. W., classed 100 Al LIoyds: Februa ~
launching; $50 per d. W. ton. less than half
actual construction cost; principals only.
NEW YORK SHIP BROKERAGE CO.. Inc,
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Danger. to Navir.tion.

wASHINToN. DC, Jan 26-Northeast
storm warning displayed at 10 PM on North
Carolina and Virginia coasts; storm over
southern Georgia, moving northeastward.
IReported to the photographic office.1
Jan 21, about Z miles S 35 deg Z of Barne-
gat light a spar about IL inches in dame
ter, painted brown on top and white below,
floating upright and projecting about 10 feet
out OF water. apparently attached TO sub
merged wreckage.
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SPOKEN.
WHAIEMEN.

Schr Argo DAM. Jacksonville for -
Jan 2S, lat 90 II y. lon - 55 w.
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DUE JANUARY IS.
Almanac for New York January II

sun rises....... Y Moon rises. . ., ~ ~
TIME OF HIGH WATER JANUARY -.
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The time given In the above table IL East
crn standard time and Is furnished by the
United States Coast and Geodctic Surviy.
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sTEAMsHPs. EXCURSIONS and TOURS.
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STEAMSHIPS, EXCURSIONS and Touros
Evening star., 1921-05-08
The PiOuS Settlers.

THE early settlers in Maryland were
L usually a pious- minded and to
large extent. pious-spoken people
The names of the rivers. bays, creeks
and headlands along the Potomac riv-~
er Oh the Maryland side give testi-
mony of this. The Catholic pilgrims
impressed upon scores of the main
features of the county names which Z
had a sacred import. To begin. there
are st. Marys county, the st. MaryS
river and the City of st. Mary. ''.
OF the city no vestige remains. but
it's site has been accurately deter
mined and a beautiful monument has
been erected there. besides, the foun- {
dation of the first capital has been
there is St Inigoes. which is the
name of a civil subdivision of the
county of St. Marys, of settlement.
of a creek and of church. 1t Is the
sions of Maryland. st. Georges Is :
land and st. Georges creek. and St.
Jerome point on St. Jerome creek,
are among the landmarks, and the =
watermarks of the Potomac river.
Across the St. Marys river>from the
is Pagan point. That was an Indian
settlement. AS you come up the
river and leave behind the places al
ready named. you pass Parsons
creek. though most Hkely thiS little .
waterway bears its name because
family named Parson or Parsons liv-
ed along its course. 1t is just
branch" or lite brook" and
branches in Maryland were generally
named after persons who lived on
them or through whose land they ran. .
St. Clements bay is familiar to all
travellers up and down the Potomac
river, but St. Patricks creek. flow
ing into the Potomac. is not SO well
known. There is the island of ST..
Margaret in the mouth of the Wi
comico river, where that wide stream ,
joins the Potomac. Nearby are St. =
Island and ST. GATHERINGS
sound. Protestant point is one of the, =
headlands on BretonS bay. At the,
junction of the Port Tobacco creek
and the Potomac river is Chapel
point. and there is a creek called ST. :.
Leonards, which flows into the Pa.
tuXent. Priests bridge is one of the
very old crossing places of the Pa. q
tuXcnt.
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knee and inStep. His hair and clothes
we're gray and his form was thin. his
hands yellow. his cheek bones promi-
.cnt and his eyes Sunken. bur lnS-
rous He walked over and sat down
oy the Rambler. and the joints Of his
bones creaked and grated as though
his gears did not mesh You are
rheumatic" said the Rambler. and |
am troubled with the same attiction.
Yes" replied the gray and rusty man
Il have haunted this damp woodland
80 many score of years. and so rarely
10 ] indulge in a daylight outing that
I really rattle as ] walk.
IL have haunted historic places for
many years myself but never need
iessly expose myself to the night air.
answered the Rambler. Might air.
said the stranger. is weakness
with me. Sunlight dazzles me. Be
sides there is more good company in
hese woods when everybody living
around here is in bed.
Il never found much enjoyment in
he company Of owls. bats and whip
poorwills.'' said the Rambler we
have better company here at night
han the creatures you name. replied
he odd old man, with just d trace OF
impatience.
Then he seemed to see something
down the woodland path by whose
edge we were sitting. and. rising to
ii
the aid of his cane. he took of his
three -cornered hat, barring hairless
skull He bowed to some one the
Rambler did not see and said: y did
not anticipate the pleasure of meeting
you. Sir Hugh. il being not your
custom to stroll while the sun shines
This is our estimable friend. the Ram
bier. whose informing pen is giving
instruction to the giddy worldlings OF
today in the manners and customs OF
our times He bowed low to the
person he thought he was talking
with.
"A nut" said the Rambler to himself.
stuffng his pip" full Of sweepings wrap
ped in tinfoil and labeled tobacco.
The stranger resumed his seat and put
one of his yellow. bony hands on the
Rambler's knee in a friendly. confidential
way And this is what hH said:
you were wrong in quoting the spec
tre of Mrs. Antoinette Fontenoy Per
simmon Bonaparte in last Sundays
ramble. You quoted her words but you
misrepresented her meaning. She did
speak slightingly of persons in trade.
but she did not mean that persons in
trade were inferior to us-the old plan
tation aristocrats-just because they
worked. That is not the point. We
aristocrats worked in supervising our
plantations just as your executives Work
in the offices OF their mills and factories.
though ] believe We held learning and
the practice of the social amenities In
higher regard than they do. and we
did not allow mere clock to regu-
late our lives. Our prejudice against
persons in trade arose not from the
fact that they worked. but from the
fact that there were SO many scamps
in business that il was not safe and
proper to be on too intimate terms
with them. By that ancient word
scamps' I mean men who would mis-
represent the character of the goods
they sold. who would represent that
they were selling goods below what
they cost them. whereas they We're
making an extraordinary profit. and
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who in other ways sought to de-
cieve one.
x X x
.J CAN remember that when l was a
young man-sOmething near 300
years ago--we had great war.
Prices rose to extraordinary heights.
They went up beyond precedent. and
money lenders advanced the rates for
loans secured by collateral in the
holding of which the lenders took no
risk-that is. if the government was
to endure These gentlemen talked a
great deal about thA1saw of supply and
demand They said, the immutable
law of supply and demand Yet. we
old plantation ariStocrats knew that
since history began it had been neces-
sary to make laws against men who
would artifically or artfully limit sup
ply and then charge higher prices
because the supply was not equal to
the demand. The Romans made laws
against men who would buy up great
amounts of food. hold it, create an
artificial shortage and then exact high
prices.
When We complained that prices
were too high the tradesmen would
cross their hearts that they were
making no profit. and that because OF
the high freight rates on sailing ves-
sels and canal boats and ConestoGa
wagons they could not sell their goods
at a lower price. Besides. they said
the hands making the goods were
being paid such high wages that they
were actually buying silk shirts and
eating choice cuts of beef. The gentle
men Of trade and commerce sa Id they
were threatened with poverty. and
might have to give up their villa at
Newport or their shooting lodge in
the AdirondackS. or their winter home
on Lake Worth or. Bay Biscayne. or
sell one of their numerous cars. or
let GO some of their encourage of but
lers footmen or chaufeurS or make
some other unheard-of retrenchments.
1t was because of such practices that
we old plantation aristocrats rather
looked down on trade and commerce.
We did not look down on these gen
tIemen because they worked. but be-
cause they worked us. OF course. all
this was in the long ago. and is of
little interest to people who live to-
day, besides business morals have un-
Evening star., 1921-05-08

to his notice in way which some
persons may think unusual. He was
walking through bit of din wood
land, because lin a lonesome place like
this, one not only gets away from
crowds of people. but from those
signs which tell that things we used
to buy for dollar have been re-
duced to four dollars. and the things
that used to cost quarter. have had
their price cut down to a dollar. 1t
is also a good place to get away from
those writer's and speakers on politi-
cal economy ThO tell us how prices
have busted and how much more We
can buy with our salary than we
could six months ago. when beefsteak
worth going into the woods to get
away from this.
The Rambler sat down on the
ground, rested his back against pine
tree and began to smoke, and to let
the ants crawl over him, and to enjoy
the other beauties of nature. Not far
away was man who was half lean
ing against a tree and half supporting
himself with thick stick having
dull and tarnished. ! had not. seen
him there when the Rambler sat
down to rest and smoke and had not
heard him come up. This seemed
little strange, but there are so many
strange things in the world. in so
ciety and in Congress that one more
matters not.
1>HE. stranger was looking at the
l. Rambler intently and kindly. He
wore a cooked hat. long coat, knee
breeches. long hose and low shoes.
There was a CLINT of buckle at his
Evening star., 1921-05-08

homes in them. He looked a the RAM
bier. smiled-or srinned-and was
gone.
NOW, as the Rambler was saying
~ about Ripon Lodge. One of the
interesting things about this place is
that a regiment of Continental troops
was quartered here one winter. 1t
has been written of Col. Thomas
Blackburn. who inherited the, farm
from his father. Richard Blackburn.
the immigrant. that "he was man
of large estate and quartered a regi-
ment of Continental troops on his
place all winter, clothed, fed and sent
them back to the army in the spring
without cost to the colonies 1t
would be interesting to know the
winter when it was quartered at
Ripon Lodge. but there is no doubt
that Col. Blackburn performed this
service to his country. One gets
number of glimpses of this man in
Virginia annals. In 11s1 he was ap-
missioners for disposing of tobacco
damaged in public warehouses and for
granting relief to tobacco owners for
such damage. On December 3. 1174.
he was elected member of the COM
mittee of safety for Prince William
county. in pursuance of resolutions
Of the Continental Congress. This
committee resolved that lit is the
opinion of this committee that no
persons or person whatsoever in this
county ought to make use of East
India tea until American grievances
are redressed and that all public balls
and entertainments be diScounte-
nanced in this county from this time
as contrary to the sentiments of the
Continental Congress"
Col. Blackburn was a member of
that committee which was sent to
thank Capt. Patrick Henry for ex-
torting $40 pounds sterling from the
receiver general for the powder
which Lord Dunmore removed from
williamsburg" He was elected by
Prince William county as a member
of the Virginia convention of 1875.
With Richard Lee. Henry Lee. Fran
els Peyton and Josiah Claphom he
was one of the commission ito eX-
anime. state and settle the accounts
of pay. provisions. arms. etc, fur
nished for the militia of certain conn
ties in Virginia. The assembly in 1775
appointed him a member of the COM
mittee to settle the accounts of mill
itia lately employed against the In
dians and to provide for raising
Evening star., 1921-05-08

sullied reputation and has removed frnn.
world II trouble 10 the mansions uf int'
and eternal bliss.
COUTHEAST of the house and
- the hill on which it stands o.
sees today the gray stone foundatic
of a ruined barn. In the foundat'C
wall ere two small. iron barred wiz
dows. In the lower story of that oil
barn there was place of confinemea
for men. Most of the old plantation
of any coHsidera BILE size were litt.t
settlements or principalities and the!
nearly all had a lookup" of one
kind or another. These places ca mo
in handy very often for confinins
slaves as punishment. for holding
slaves who had run away and been
recaptured and for confining thai
class of white servant. called the
.'indentured man" who was held to
service for term of years. Slaves
indentured men and even apprentice.
often ran away from those 10 whom.
they were bound. Many of thes,
loof people. ferple-mInuvd, simpi'"
wandered off without thought of run
! ming away. Coming into strange
; .-~-, .,Oo. Md. t.I.s notnd De question
ed. and ii their answers Were NJ
satisfactory III would probably be as
sumed that they were runaways. The
plantation had its little lock up in
which these strangers could be kept
until the owner of the slave or the
me- ster of the indentured servant or
apprentice could be found. and could
come or send to prove his property
and pay costs.
There is nothing especially signifi-.
cant. therefore. in finding cell win
dows in the stone walls of a barn on
an old plantation in the Potomac
nf h.s Sfn lltt1Ir
the iron barred windows in tn.
ruined barn at Ripon Lodge is that
ii was prison for revolutionary
soldiers. Certain facts and probabill-
ties fit that story. If a regiment of
Continental troops was quartered oE
the Ripon Lodge plantation one win
ter 1t is quite likely that some of tn.
men had to be confined in that lock
up No doubt many of them got
drunk. and very likely some of those
who got drunk became SO unruly that
il was considered best to let them
cool off in the lock up. PeIhaps some
of those ancestral soldiers OF ours
would now and then help" them
selves to some of the treasures of
the smok kehouse or the tobacco house
and would be put behind the bars
which you see in the picture. with
regiment of troops. even though they
were Continental troops. quartered on
a farm all winter. there is no doubt
that the lookup room in the old .
barn had d number of patriot tenants 30
A short way from the ruined barn
is a little gray house. That was the
plantation diStillery. when Ripor
Lodge was owned by the Blackburn.
and also when, some time in the 40s
it became the home of the Atkinson"
family. The distillery building is
pretty well preserved for it's age. buf
seems now to be a little wabblN. ln
that little old building millions Of the
apples. peaches. cherries and grapes Of
Ripon Lodge were turned into brandy
and wine. g.
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the ghost of Mrs. Marie Antoinette
Jasmine Fontenoy. She was not slur-
ring persons who work. but only those
who try 10 make, fat living by work
ing others In your next 'ramble |
hope you will make the proper cor
rection. We read your 'rambles. aph
we consider your photographs of
tombstones the liveliest and most
authentic that are published.
81 must now bid you adieu because
night is coming on and | have an APP
pointment to attend what promise to
be very diverting revels of some kim
dred spirits at Mount Moriah. which.
as you know. is an abandoned and
almost forgotten cemetery about
mile further down in the woods. Oh.
yes. it is private cemetery. In my
time it was not considered the proper
caper to be put to rest in public
cemetery.
And as the queer old man arose. his
hands looked bonier and his coat
seemed to hang very loose and his
long hose seemed to have only leg
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ing for any landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers exercises. or expecting you
TO make an oration. but doesn't it
strike you that this one-syllable stuff
OF yours is kind of sketchy for the
OCCASION
Which jogs Inez into eloquence.
She rolls her big gray eyes at me
solemn, shifts three cents worth of
wintergreen flavor from right to left.
and remarks: Lolita noise"
LAS usual. IneZ." says /, you have
come through with the perfect de-
scription. It's a whale of racket.
Doesn't seem to be anything extra
going on. either. so I expect it's just
the regular big town growl that well
have to get used to. And here's an
other one of those taxi pirates that
I've got to shoe OF"
But he didn't shoe as easy as the
other Ave. He almost graZes the toe
of 1nez's No. 9's with his front tire
as he pulls up in front of US. holds
Taxi. LADY,
Thanks for the iattery. Buddy,
says /. but. honest. now. after an
other good look. would you say we d
be the kind that was ycarning to pay
four bits for a ride in a wheezy tin
Hank with wabbly tenders?
"Ahr. say. Sirlies. I'll make 1t
right" says he twistin his ugly face
into what he thought would pass for
a smile. where you soin
whats your choice. Inez." says !:
the Ritz or the new Ambassador ;
Two blinks. That's a sign. Buddy,
fha, she hasn't made up her mind.
20 you'd better roll along before Liz
zie's asthma gets worse.
= Il
LIE rolled. too. and before III" next
IL one could hail US had dashed out
and go, tall traffic cop to tel me how
to find this furnished room house tha,
a friend Of mine had gwen me the ad
dress OF. We walked the whole eiChteer
blocks so by the time we had climbed
the brown stone steps and been let int
the storage vault that was being uset
IS a reception parior sitting came easy
Making "A trade with Miss "eilby
though, was another proPosltoh sn
wasn't the regular stage landlady y0'
see in vaudeville sketches or read abou
in the Saturday Evening Post. foi
know-a multi-Chrome blonde with
battle-ax profile. a cod. SUSPICIOUS ey
and voice like saxophone at ~
worst. No. Miss Weliby seems TO D.
mild spoken. gray-haired old mau
But she wasn't taking in pair OF cross
mated stray females like US just becaus
il was sporty thing TO do. Ana IN
next knew the third degree was wei
under way.
Let me see" says she, Il suppos
sou have references:
''f.h' says !. catching my breai
1uick. "Oh. yes. 1t wa. Miss tipps
the day shift cashier in Druoi's. whcr'
we worked in Duluth. who referred u
To- YOU She had a cousin. a perfer
rhirty-six. in som" waist department
who roomed here once. Miss FIpps 20
the number from her
Miss Wcllby INDUCED in q bore
smile and shook her head Rattle
vague. isn't that she asks 'fo
see | make II rule not TO rent M
rooms TO young women unless know
something about them; a good dea
in fact.
II that's cue for the story o
our lives" says l. here goes,
won't take long. I'm just Trilby Ma
J,odgc Chucklc IL you want to. The
generally do. Paw named me atte
"a book and an aunt He was fon
of books Paw was. and ] have
nunch he .hr"w IN the May with
fond hope tnat Auntie might loose