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say. "Gentlemen" (they are all gen.
tlemen at this stage of the story, "a
higher con uictfon than any earthly
lac has. ct ceterG, ct ceterd," With
that. the curtain has dropped, and 1t
is understood that the criminal made
his exit the same night.
That's better, decidedly better. And
yet lacking in checrfulness, somehow.
1t is just about as difficult to deal
with the Thoroughly Bad Woman.
The general procedure Is 10 make her
raise terrible scene. When she is
at last rounded up aud caught. she
doesn't 'go quietly" like the criminal
with the hacking cough or the re-
pentant tramp. Not at all. She
raises-in fact. she is made to raise
so much that the reader will be con-
tent to waive any prejudice about the
disposition of criminals to get her out
Of the story.
The icoman's face as Inspector
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Williams, another member of the
band.
The captain spelled it and asked for
dry Martini. and at that John
Harvard. who had been doing in the
corner, woke up.
IN have the same he said. and
went back TO sleep
Wake up, Harvard said another.
We've sighted land"
Harvard opened his eyes, and looked
around.
"Where?" he asked
You have to go outside TO see it,"
they replied
OH he replied and once more put
Evening star., 1927-05-22

Mrs. F.--Y yi-Hollo. Meesus Nof.
tolis-Hollo.M You gung ulso by Rock
away? Oh by a hotal!. OH
Looy-Ha ha-hotel--I saw de
rat trap dey was hidin' in last year.
va hadda guess de name. Every
odder letter was missin' offa de sign,
ha hall put in one night in dat
joint. Boy. de reaches wuz so fat dey
never walked. Dey rode up and down
ie elevator-when it woiked. Wow,
Well, well, here we are!.!
Mr.. F.. Mrs. F., Mrs. NY vi!
Queek! edgemere-Haverybo hout
Hall hout.! Isidore.!
Mrs. F.-Isidore.
Mr.. F.-IsidoreM Wherr is Isidore??
Looy-Try de baggage care! ha ha!
Isidore's Voice-tBANG BANG)--
Here l alb, ba-ba.! I'b i'd de washroob
tBOOM BOOM). The door is locked,
pa-ba. / cad't get out!
Mr.. Film -.
Mrs. F.--Halp! Queek Conductor,
Condoctor.! Break don de durr--
wherr is de condoctor??u HIM, wait,
III attand you later!! HIM
Train-Toot toot!!!
Looy--Ha ha! Next stop South
hampton'
Evening star., 1927-05-22

~ ABS BLISS heard about the
- bootlegger some time before she
first saw him. The president
~ Of the Literary League tele.
phoned her one day, asking
for an appointment to see her on an
extremely personal matter
Babs had prevented the lady's
pretty young daughter from making
fool of herself few days before,
and she innocently supposed that the
lady was coming to say Thank you"
So she was utterly dazed at what the
lady really did come to say.
IF you We're a mother" the lady
ended dramatically. you would un-
dersrand how some of us feel. The
man is a menace
Bahs reminded the lady that she
was a mother.
The president OF the Literary
League, staring at the youthful pro-
prietor of the tearoom, answered al.
most GROSSLY.
''Oh, l forgot. Tou have some very
small children. Babies of that age
are no problem at all It's those of
us who have daughters of dancing age
who lie awake nights. If the children
would be content to dance at the
clubs-my husband and I belong to
both the Yacht Club and the Golf Club.
and they frequently have dances--we
shouldn't worry. But the children
seem to prefer the public dance places
Now ] do not mean to cast any re.
Election upon tie. Subscription dances
that YOU hold hEYe on Saturday nights
! suppose you intend that they shall
lie conducted decorously. But my
little girl was here last Saturday
night. and she did not get home until
very late. ] have come to ask YOU
hereafter. whenever you see her
among the dangers 10 telephone me
at once. fof / have forbidden her to
SO to public dance places
But, il >you have forbidden her.
how shall see her here?" Babs inter
rupted.
The president Of the Literary
League flushed
''She is an impetuous child" she
confessed. "She sometimes starts
out intending TO spend the evening
with her young friends and some
Of them uggest-er-+dancing, and
without realizing where she is going
the child finds herself swept along to
places like the Green Dragon or Dew
Stop Inn or here
THE Green Dragon is in the next
town and Dew Stop is mile beyond
that" Babs commented dryiy. 81
haven't anything to do with either of
them"
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Gross Exaggerations; Rockaway Trains;
Makes Isidore From Poppa a Lockpeeck
BY AIILT GROSS.

KR. FEITLEBAUM-so Isidore
M (SMACK) heads you steek-
WI ing hout from de window
1 i agan, ha? (SMACK.) Win
dows you got to fall hout a
train yat, ha? (SMACK)-Fullish
enoff you amt, ha? (SMACK) Wot
you nidd maybe witt a chootcha train
a knock In de hempty brains 1t should
improof by you gradually de hig-
norance, ha? (SMACK) Take hout
from de window in de had!!!
Isidore-Ba- -ba, read be sobe ASK
Be Addother" questions!:!
Looy--Woops!!! Ha-ha!! Dere dey
go again. Well. wot are Yonk-
ers?? Who's de richest guy in de
poorhouse??? Wot song goes DUN
TEE DE DUM-TEE DE DUN DUN
DUM.!?
Mr. F--Aha somebody SAINT you ha
dope? De railrote nidds you you
should spelling for de passengers de
treep, ha?
Looy-Say lissen, dere's odder tings
| coulda done much better dan vast
in me time wild dis mob o Hunkles.
Dere's a May party gone on t-day
y'know Dat means lemonade yknoW.
I'm passin' up a chanct at dat.
Mr.. Film a movellous chance you
DoSSln2 opp. YOU SflOuiu SIihiilS DS
de momma de new wash boiler-witt
seek lannon's by the hize.box, ha dope?
Day nidd you dere in de park 1t should
arrast you yat a cop you should sect
gradually in de bast from helt for tan
days / shouldn't see you--denks Gott"
Und you, goot.for.notting tSMACk)
take hout from de weendow in de had
(SMACK) und paying attantion de
aueezizz. So: "Wot is it amanuen.
sis?'
Isadore--I don't doe,i!
Mr.. F.-(SMACK) Hn1--Wot was
1t wot it deedn't was liable dey should
putting 1t togadder hall de keeng's
husses witt hall de Keeng's mem?
Isadore--I don't doe!.
Mr.. F.--(SMACK.) Hn1-So wherr
deed Napoleon dite??
Looy--In bed--ha ha hal
| Mrs. F.-Looy, Looy!! Dun't pittorb-
| ing de poppa!!
Mr.. F.--You'll gerradahere dope??
| Moo. So ''Wot do dey hedWertising
wot it chases doit?"
| Looy--De tabloid papers--hahaha!.
| Howzatt, huh pop??
Mr.. F,--I'll geeye you in meenit!.
"How many gills is by a."
Looy--By a fish or a pint. pop??
Git tecknickle!! Woops-"Wot's a
/ idiosyncrasy?" Al ilan.wit boyMi When
| was de missing link foist missing .ha,
ha. rs a grenade a French copi?
Where do ds Afghans live? didn't
know dey movedil WooDs-Wait .
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pilgrims gathered together all their
possessions. paid their bill at the Ritz,
and embarked on the unknown AT.
lantic for lands across the sea.
The voyage was stormy one, but
the Mayflower was u stout craft
with twin screws and a glass.inclosed
promenade deck. and before long they
sighted land.
land" cried one of their number,
rushing into the bar where the pill.
grims were accustomed to gather.
What land?" asked Priscilla Al
den, reaching for the potato chips
At that moment the captain went
by and answered the question.
England" he replied
How do you spell it?' asked Roger
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10 lock by washrooms on trains ha?
Home do you locking de durrs, ha!
SMACK a Pincus de Mageecian you
bicame you should locking opp your
salf in rooms. ha.I Wait (SMACK),
I'll attand you later.,.
(Copyright 1927
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SNENE II.
Railroad Tracks.

Looy--Well. if here amt grandpa
again.. Let's see dat paper. Now
nssen-Take de Long Beach Express
pack to jamaica! Den git a Rocka-
way Beach bus--den
Mr.. F.-iSMACK|-Hm durrs you got
Evening star., 1927-05-22
BY STEPHEN LEACOCk.

TN HE writing of a detective story
gets harder and harder toward
the end. It is not merely
4 the difficulty of finding a suit
able criminal: there is added
the difficulty of knowing what to do
with him. 1t is tradition Of three
centuries OF novel writing that
story ought to end happily. But in
this case now end up happily?
For example, here we have Blue
Edward. caught at last, with hand.
cuffs on his wrists--Blue Edward, the
most dangerous criminal that ever
interwove the UNDERWORLD into solid
mesh; Blue Edward, who--well, in
fact the whole aim of the writer only
little while before was to show
what hecker Blue Edward was. True,
we never heard of him until near the
end Of the book, but when he did get
in we were told that his gang had
ramif1ed all the way from Sicily 10
Oklahoma. Now, what are we to do?
If it is not Blue Edward, then we've
got TO hang the Tramp--the poor
tattered creature who fried potatoes
by the hedge. But we are called upon
20 notice that now he has "a singu-
larly vacant eye" You can hardly
hang man with vacant eye II
doesn't 40.
What If we send him to prison for
: life? But that's pretty cold stuff,
too-sitting looking at four stone
walls with a vacant eye for 40 years.
In fact, the more we think Of it, the
less satisfied we are with hanging the
Tramp. Personally I'D rather hang
Meadows the Butler. as We first set
cut to do. or I'd hang the Nut OF the
Thoroughly Bad Woman, or any OF
them.
In the older fiction they used to
face this problem fairly and squarely
,Hhey hanged them. Hanged them
and apparently they liked it. But
nowadays we can't do IT. We have
lost the old-fashioned solid satisfac-
ton in if, so we have to look round
for another solution. Here is one,
a very favorite one with cur sensitive
generation. If ] had 10 give II a
name, ! would call it
THE CRIMINAL WITH THE
HACKING COUGH.
The method of ii is very simple
Blue Edward, or Garth, or whoever
IS 10 he lit" is duly caught There's
no doubt of bis guilt. But at the mo-
ment when the Great Detective and
the Ignorant Police are examining
him he develops a hacking cough
Indeed, IS he starts 10 make his CON
fession, he can hardly talk for hacks.
WeH. says the criminal, lookin o
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tion from several throats.
There was apparently no answer to
that, SO they turned and began pulling
for the shore. And two hours later
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cord, stopped rowing.
II think we ought to save him, any.
way" suggested timid voice.
"Why?" was the answering ques.
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Ouch!

trosh~"Oh, have an idea =
Sopn--" Beginners luck"
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Why Not?

As a distinguishing mark we sug-
sest that the next issue of air mail
stamps be printed on fly paper
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of the pilgrims, and they BEGAN to row
toward the drowning man. Suddenly
one of their number cried out, It's
Harvard" And they all, with one ac-
Evening star., 1927-05-22
THAT GAY YOUNG SET
BY LUCILLE VAN SLYKE.

~ ABS BLISS heard about the
- bootlegger some time before she
4 first saw him. The president
~ IF the Literary League tele-
Evening star., 1927-05-22

NJ r. FEITLEBAUM-So Isidore
M (SMACK) heads you steek-
Vk ing hout from de window
1 i agan, ha? (SMACK.) Win
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1927-09-01
ORDER PUBLICATION.

ORDER PUBLICATION.
In The Clerks Office of The
Circuit Court Of The County of
Dickinson, On the 18th. day of
August 1927.
Stella Bamgarner Complainant
against
Tollie Bumgarner Defendant
The object of this suit is to
obtain a divorce a vinculo mat
rimonii. upon the grounds of
desertion.
And affidavit having been
made and filed that the defend
ant Tollie Bumgarner is not
resident of the State of Virgin
la, it is ordered that he do APP
pear here within 10 days after
due publication hereof, and do
what may be necessary to pro-
tect his interest in this suit.
And it is further ordered that
a copy hereof, be published
once a week for four successive
weeks in the Dickinson County
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CHAPTER III.


had gone but no body knew.
CHAPTER III.
The third of May had come.
Nina remembered what Rich
ard had said to her a year ago.
All day long she kept thinking
Of the NIGHT one year ago.
After supper was over, as the
moon rose round and golden,
she started down the trail to
the river. AS she neared the
yer q form came toward her
Y til. outstretched arms. The
moon CO t q beautiful shadow
all around. Even the stars seem
ed to be shining brighter this
night than before. Nina reeled
end would have fallen had the
form not caught her in his out
stretched arms.
nina | thought you were
true and would come to me as
you promised, he was saying.
"NoW l know you are true.
She fled into his arms like a
tired little bird.
Richard, will you forgive me
for being with Jim Hilton?
There is nothing to forgive.
| came month too early. If I
had waited as I promised |
would have found you waiting.
1t was | to blame.
Dear Richerd'.
After [ returned west | de-
clded not to write you anymore.
| decided to wait Do you rem
ember the little poem you tau
ght me once? You must have
hope you must have faith. YOU
must love be strong and SO if
you watt That is what | learn
cd from the little poem. I learn
ed to have hope, faith, love and
walt, and by waiting and hop
ing | found you here waiting
by this beautiful crystal river
for me-.
Richard I never wanted to
90 with Jim Hilton. He forced
himself on me-.
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There in the silvery moon
light, as the beams shot across
the path, the two lovers stood
locked in each others arms.
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THAT is enough Nina. am
with you now and that is all |
ever hoped after l found that l
would recover.
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When the Chinese men cut off thei
cues. they SET Il new pace in hair
Ore sing one that is not compared in
.l aese ladies to adopt the boy bob
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Herald and that a copy be post
ed at the front door of the
courthouse of this county on
or before the First September
rules, 1927.
A copy-Teste:
w. E. Rasnick, Clerk.
By N. E. Hughes, D. C.
W. B. Phipps, pa.
8-18-4t.
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BUICK
6rI028
Dante Motor Corp.
Dante. Va.
For Sale
Valuable Property

valuable Property
One frame house consisting of
four rooms conveniently arrang-
ed
Lot contains seven-eights of an
acre of land we'll improved, with
all necessary out buildings. Now
occupied by S. ]. Colley on Wal
nut St. in East end of Clintwood.
Price $250o,00 terms to suit pur-
chaser. See Clintwood Real Estate
Co. F. F. Fletcher, Mgr.
Valuable Farm one and one :
half miles East of Clintwood.
Containing seventy-eight acres.
Twenty-Five acres level balance
medium hillside but not at all
steep.
All good clay land that will pr
oduce so bu. per. acre. This farm
has a good orchard and is water
ed by creeks and we'll.
This property is offered for a
small price of S3500.00 with terms
terms to suit purchaser.
See F. F. Fletcher Mgr.
Clintwood Real Estate Co.
Clintwood, Va.
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CONTINUED from page 8
permit him to call. She tried in
vain to find out where Richard
had gone but no body knew.
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hen tile Information editor is
asked what nickel dated 1869 is
worth. and says Five cents" the in
qnIer must he highly gratified to
knew ii never deprecated in value.
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pounced upon poor John Henry.
Sing the first two lines" she
commanded.
Il can't sing, Miss Special" the
boy protested.
Stand up and sing"
The Little Teacher gave him
an appealing glance. Try" she
whispered.
And then John Henry made up
his mind. Up he rose in all the
glory Of his six feet and then he
opened his mouth and beloved.
Without rhyme, reason, tempo,
or tune John Henry roared forth
those two lines.
The children went into hys-
terics and the Little Teacher
could neither restrain their laugh
ter nor her own.
THAT will do" Miss Special
stated at the end Of the perform
ance.
After that brave attempt at a
musical education John Henry
was allowed to pursue his other
studies unmolested.
Many schools are infested with
spirits like Miss Specials. There
are pupils everywhere being pes
tered and disturbed by just such
useless demands as hers.
II child has no taste, no tai
ent and no time for a special
subject like music. drawing or
dancing, it is worse than foolish
to torment him about learning it.
The army signal corps cable
into Alaska was recently severed
by the bite Of an angry whale.
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By L. Lamar Matthews

John HENRY was Is years old
- and quite large for his age.
Somehow he had missed the school
ing that he should have had while
he was younger and now he was
a great over-grown boy in the
fifth grade with children.
Furthermore, 1t was necessary
for him to work in the afternoon
AMI on Saturday. And since he
wished to become q master
machine shop. which goes to show
that he was not only ambitious
but sensible besides.
John Henry's teacher readily
understood the boys situation and
by her own attitude toward him
she made the pupils respect him.
She realized that he was doing his
dead level best to learn how to
speak and write correctly and how
to figure" And she gave him
all the help she could.
Then one day along came the
music supervisor to give her regu-
lar weekly lesson In voice culture.
And for the first time it seemed
to dawn upon Miss Special that
John Henry wass not Joining with
the class in singing. So she
ordered him to stand up and sing
The notes alone.
John Henry declared that he
couldn't sing. He said he had
never sung a note in his life and
he didn't know "do" from mi"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-02
AUTO TOURS
PLANNED

EIFTEItN MILLION automobile
Il camr will fill the long, long
trails frG.h the Atlantic to the Pa
cific coast this summer, according
10 estimates complied for the
Woman's Home Companion, from
cities bordering the best known
ranscontinental routes.
Anticipating this peak in the
form of summer outings, which
has grown like a speeding ava
larche in the past few years, auto
mobile and sporting, goods manu-.
facturers have met the demands of
the tourists with ingenious devices
providing the nearest approach to
home comforts, and towns and
cities have SO improved the rest
camps in their outskirts that the
Is ,000, 900 wanderers will be able to
realize only by the intervening
scenery that they have left their
own domiciles.
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PITY A BIG
HANDICAP
'6TNHE sympathy of ones. family

SSFENHE sympathy of ones family
L can always be counted on
and nobody else cares" writes
Bess Frost Georgi in Hygeia for
July, adding that il all the army
Of the afflicted would accept this
simple philosophy a lot of use.
less heartache and unhappiness
would be wiped out.
Mrs. Georgis advice is ba sed on
the experience of lifetime of
deafness. Howe er, her affliction
has not kept her from leading q
normal life and she says of her
self: I'm almost as deaf az q
post and I like it."
There are $4,000 lepers in
Mexico according to DR.. Enrique
OSorni0
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-02
GETTING RID
OF TRASH

66NLEAN UP WEEK" is every
~ week in the life of the
busy housewife. It's simply
astonishing how old newspapers
and magazines accumulate around
the house. The garnet and the
backyard are all ciutered up with
useless odds and ends that seem
to appear out of nowhere and
never disappear.
A good way to dispose of these
useless articles is to send them
to the Salvation Amy social serv-
ice. This organization carries out
many charitable ideas through the
collection OF discarded things and
waste materials. Just telephone
to Main 1923 to receive prompt
attention,
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QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
by Cornelius Beeckman-
A Birthday Gift
nEAR MRS. BEEcKMAN:

nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
y. II young man goes shop
ping. say for a suit or top coat.
is it permissible for his sweetheart
to 90 with him and help him make
his selection2
.. When entering q taxi. does
the lady enter first and the gentle
man follow. and does the gentle
man get out first and give the
lady a hand?
.. Does lady sit on the right
of left side Of her escort?
4. II young man calls on his
sweetheart about two or three
times week, must he bring her a
gift of some kind on every visit?
A READER.
VEST he wishes to have her!
u Usually men prefer to do this
mans job alone. and certainly I
should think that their tailors and
habsrdashers would prefer to have
them. However,
2. Yes-in both cases. In this
way. the gentleman is able to
assist the lady.
3. THE lady on the right" Is the
hest rule-and very good and
useful one in most cases.
4. No. This depends on his wish
md his pocketbook and his native
generosity. In some countries.
believe. it is graciously taken for
granted that whenever a visit is
nlads the caller takes a gift, no
matter how inconsequential. but
that IL far from the custom in
this country! think that it il
true. or at least used to be. in
Mexico-perhaps some kind Mexi-
can reader will tell me If l am
correct about this. And it used
to be true. and perhaps still is. in
Spain. A charming custom it il,
indicative of a certain spiritual
graciousness that is most appeal.
ing and delightful. One flower
was enough, or a newspaper or a
magazine. or a Sox of candy
something to indicate the callers
appreciation of the hospitality to
be extended.
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Details Versus Education

But Miss Special insisted that he
must sing.
After tormenting him for 10 min.
utes without results she went out,
saying to the teacher:
See that that boy is able to
sing for me the next time / come
i'm
The little Teacher tried to
explain to John Henry about the
notes and he listened in bewildered
silence while she explained.
you know l would sing If l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-02
A Model RefOrn0tOry

THE Wisconsin Reformatory at Green Bay is
punishment place where youths corrected and
morally remodel and they welcome to all the fun they
get out of life there, according to officials
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F AS H IONS
F NCIES

PrOclaiming the Dawn-Chanti.
cleer strutted in most naughty
fashion, but he did not carry his
head more erect than do the little
ieweled cocks that proclaim the
style for jeweled fowls as hat
ornaments. Studded with rhine.
stones and touched with enamel.
these small ROSTERS are one of
the most recent novelties in mil.
llnery brooches.
Evidently Egyptian is the in
spiration responsible for the new
mummy" jewelry, which is shown
in necklaces, bracelets, earrings
and pins for either hat or shout.
der. Hand-carved of stone or
glass-like composition, tiny mum.
mylike statues, mounted on metal
bases, are used as pendants on
earrings, necklaces or bracelets.
Some of the slender link chains,
upon which these charms or pend.
ants hang. are plain and some
times set in stones to match the
wee figure.
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NAPOLEON'S father died in 1885, leaving his
~ family affairs in tangle. Joseph, the elder
brother, who had been trained for the priesthood,
had refusued TO continue his career: Madame Bons-
parte was left with four ANAL children at hnme.
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could. But just naturally can't.
That singing won't ever do me
any good. Besides. I'd sound ter
rible II / tried. I'd shake the
rafters in the building"
Il know that, John Henry. But
don't want you to have any
trouble with Miss Special. She
might send you home. Please try.
But John Henry only looked
worried and said nothing.
The following week in came
Miss Special and immediately she