.BY.
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ETHEL A. SOUTIIAM
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CHAPTER If. ( Continued. )
Great was his disappointment , how
ever , as ho laid the book on the table
and opened it at the page at which It
had begun to open naturally , to find
that , instead of the stranger's eyes
being riveted , as everybody's always
were. 10 the bottom of the leaf , where
the names of Lady Howard and Miss
Evelyn Luttrcli boldly confronted the
reader , with the full address appended ,
they instantly wandered off to a few
lines above , where , in eaaily decipher
able letters , w.-.s written "Gilbert Falk
land. "
"Thank you ; that will do. " He
closed the book and pushed it aside.
" 1 am very sorry to trouble you , sir ,
but" and the waiter placed an ink
stand and pens at his elbow "per
haps you'd kindly add your name. "
"My name ? Oh yes very well. "
He was staring somewhat abstract
edly through the window ; but at the
request he. took up a quill , dipped it
into the ink , and was just beginning
the line with a rather awkward-look
ing " 3 , " when he suddenly paused ,
hesitated a second , and , drawing hur
riedly through the capital , finally
wrote "Major Brown , London , " in
clear , legible characters.
A few minutes later Major Brown ,
as he designated himself , rose ab
ruptly from his chair , and , with his
hands in his pockets , was crossing the
room toward the door , when a glimpse
of a dainty lace handkerchief lying
half concealed beneath the folds of a
tablecloth attracted his notice. Ho
stooped to get it , and , glancing at the
monogram and crest embroidered in
one corner , was about to hand it to
one of the waiters to deliver it to its
rightful owner , when a faint smile for
the moment dispelled the frown which
had gathered upon his forehead , and.
without a word , he quietly placed it in
the inside pocket of his coat.
"My dear fellow , you are a fool ! " he
murmured to himself. "Fancy throw-
her pause in some amazement , to be
hold the wearer of the light shooting-
suit , who hart apparently been as
deeply engrossed in the contents of the
"Royal George" post-bag as herself ,
advancing toward her.
"But is not this for you ? You must
have overlooked it. I fancy. "
Evelyn glanced quickly at the en
velope which he was offering to her.
directed Indisputably to herself , and
then , "looking up , found herself encoun
tered by the very same pair of gray
eyes which she remembered meeting
for the first time in the table d'hote
room the night before.
"Thank you it is for me , " she an
swered , with a vague sense of wonder.
"I cannot think how I missed it. "
"Oh , easily , I should imagine , " was
the prompt reply. "Among so many ,
it is no difficult matter to miss one.
Still , as this has come to Hunt , had
you not better see if there are any
more ? "
"Perhaps I had , " answered Evelyn ,
wrinkling up her forehead perplex
edly.
She was turning to the table once
more , when a hand was laid with a
somewhat familiar gesture upon her
arm and a voice said :
"Good morning. Miss Eve. Her lady
ship has sent me to find you. What
are you doing here ? "
"Only trying to sort these letteis.
Have you been for yours yet ? "
"No ; I prefer my breakfast first.
Letters arc not always calculated to.
improve one's appetite. But come
Lady Howard wants to know what
your opinion is of the weather. She
thinks it is too hot for that drive
which we were talking about. "
"Very well , I am coming ; but "
She hesitated a second , and then
glanced quickly toward Major Brown.
"Thank you very much , " and , with a
graceful little inclination of her head ,
she turned to follow Gilbert Falkland ,
"BUT , IS NOT THIS FOR YOU ? "
ing away such an opportunity ! This
at least will be an excuse for one word
with the curly headed divinity ! "
CHAPTER III.
The sun was streaming with all the
persistence of a hot July morning sun
through the interstices of Venetian
blinds into a large private sitting room
on the ground floor of the "Royal.
George" as Evelyn Luttrell , looking
delightfully cool in a pink cotton gown ,
put in her head at the open window
and surveyed the scene in astonish
ment.
"Nobody down ? Are we really the
first , after all ? " she exclaimed , ad
vancing to the middle of the room and
glancing quickly from the table to the
clock on the chimney-piece. "Well ,
Sambo , it is of no use waiting. We
may as well go and see if there are any
letters for us this morning. "
As she spoke she opened the door
and passed out into the cool , softly
carpeted corridor , which ssemed , after
the heat and glare of the beach , where
she and the poodle had been having a
run , a perfect paradise in contrast.
Swinging jier hat carelessly in her
hand , she hurried along toward the
table where the morning delivery of
letters was always to be found.
A tall , military-looking man in a
light gray shooting-suit was standing
casually surveying the post as Evelyn
came up to it and rapidly scanned the
different ad'dresses. Her scrutiny -was
unsuccessful ; however. Neither her
own nor her aunt's name met her eyes
upon any of the envelopes , and she
had turned away and was about to
cross the hall , when a voice suddenly
arrested her footsteps.
"I beg your pardon ! "
The words , spoken in singularly
courteous tones and accompanied by a
slight but most chivalrous bow , made
who had stood watching the proceedIC'
ings with a distinct shadow of annoyth
ance upon his face. lo
"Who on earth is that fellow , Miss ac
Luttrell ? " was the immediate inquiry , se
Evelyn gazed down thoughtfully at th
the address upon her letter. th
"Echo answers 'Who ? ' It is
a quesyc
tion I myself was just going to ask ta
. you. All that I know of him is that di
he was having his dinner alone late to
last evening when I went to get Sambo fo
a bone , and that he handed me this a fei
moment ago. " th
"And yet you were thanking him as bi
if he had done you the greatest service w
upon earth ! " said Falkland , accomTl
panying his remark with a steady , penpji
etrating look into Miss Luttrell's face. pe
"What do you mean ? " A faint flush fn
deepened the color in '
Evelyn's cheeks. Cu
"I thanked him , of course. Whoever wj
the man is , he is certainly a gentlech
man. "
in
"Oh , 3res , most probably ! " rejoined tn
Falkland , ironically. "I know the X
stamp of fellow exactly. They always jia
haunt places of this kind. " ci
A rather indignant little smile all
crossed Evelyn's face. mi
"These fellows , " he proceeded , "are v-
the greatest humbugs imaginable , the
They do the polite to the ladies all ca
day , play cards and billiards for the sh
heaviest stakes at night and through a"
the small hours of the morning , and t&
then at the end of a fortnight they
quietly disappear .with quite a collec
tion of jewelry , bank-notes and sundry
loose coins scored away carefully in gi
their portmanteaus. Oh , Miss Luttrell , ev
you are sadly inexperienced in the ab
wa3'3 of the wicked world. If you take he
my advice you will have nothing more see
to say to that irreproachable-looking sti
individual. " ing
"Nothing to say to him ? What do the
you mean ? " asked Evelyn , raising her pe
brows in astonishment. "I do not sup
pose that I shall ever speak to him
again. "
' Do you imagine that fellow did not
know wham he was addressing this
morning Certainly he did ! 'Luttrell'
is by no means a common name , and
directly he saw 'Miss Luttrell' posted
In the visitors' book he guessed no
doubt who you weie and asked some
one to point you out to him. Consequently
quently he has taken the first oppor
tunity of beginning an acquaintance ,
which I dare say he intends to folloxv
up as opaeuily as pcssib'.e. Ah , Lady
Howard" here he threw open the door
of the room which Evelyn had for-
saken a few minutes before "I have
found your niece and brought her back
to you. Here she is. ' !
"And , by way of improving the occa
sion , he has been offering me a little
of his valuable advice , " announced
Evelyn , s ° i"S P to Lady Howard and
bending down to kiss her as she sat
at the head of the breakfast table , still
a handsome , good-looking woman , in
spite of the lines of care across her
forehead and the silvery threads of
hair distinctly visible beneath the soft
folds of her widow's cap.
"I was only cautioning your niece
against P fellow whom I noticed play-
ing rather high in the billiard room
last night , and with whom she had
the i'.l-luck to have occasion to speak
this morning , " protested Falkland ,
strolling up to the window and gazing
out with all the air of a man who was
at home in her ladyship's private sit
ting room.
"To speak ? My dear Eve , what have
you been doing ? " asked Lady Howard
in alarm.
"Nothing , Aunt Lydia , " answered
Miss Luttrell , with a decided little
shake of her head. "Do not agitate
yourself , please ! It is only Mr. Falk
land who is piling up the agony noxv.
This poor innocent man who has such
wicked designs on us only handed me
this lettsr" throxving down the hap
less-looking note upon the table
"that is all. "
"Anil , as an old friend , knowing
what thorough-paced scoundrels habit
ually frequent places of this descrip
tion , I have advised her to avoid him
for the future. "
"Exactly , " agreed her ladyship.
"One cannot be too careful or exclu
sive at a hotel where one encounters
the same person day after day. Who
is this man that spoke to you , Eve ? "
"Oh , ask Mr. Falkland , " answered
Evelyn in a deprecating tone. "Pie
evidently knows more about him than
I do , if he had the benefit of his soci
ety in the billiard room last evening ,
and perhaps who knows ? joined him
in some of his high play. "
Falkland accepted the little taunt
with an air of praiseworthy compla
cency , and turned calmly to Lady
Howard.
"Well , I believe he goes by the elet
gaut name of 'Brown. ' That is vague
enough , you would think ; but his ad
dress of London only Broxvn of Lou-
don is vaguer still. "
"Yes , indeed ; anybody would liave
difficulty in tracing him. But that re
minds me. As you came in , I was
just reading in the paper thatDo
sit down , though , Mr. Falkland , and'
have some breakfast. "
"Oh , no , thank you ! I have just
told Henry to have some ready for me
in the coffee room ; so I will not keep
you from yours. But you were say
ing ' 'Only " that they fancy they have at
last found a clue to the whereabouts
of that man who committed those fear
ful forgeries about twelve months ago1
added Lady Howard , pouring out the
cofTee and passing a cup across to
Evelyn. "You remember the Beau-
champ case , which made such a commotion -
motion at the time ? "
( To Be Continued. )
FOOD IS BETTER THAN TONICS
Debilitated Knerples Do > ot neijiilru the
Stimulation of Drugs.
A professor in one of the many med
ical colleges of this city holds tlur
there is no need of buying and sw
loxving advertised tonics , because tht.
accomplish no more than a judiciously
selected diet will. The professor says
that spinach is richer in iron , which is
the basis of most tonics , than even the
yolk of an egg , while the latter con
tains more than beef. The ordinary
dish of spinach and poached egg is a
tonic as potent as one in which iron
forms a part , without the harmful ef
fect of other ingredients that enter into
the medical compound. Plants im
bibe iron , and it is through them that
we < should absorb it into our system.
That mineral is present largely in ap
ples , lentils , strawberries , white beans ,
peas , potatoes and most of the red
fruits and vegetables. Stewed black
currants if taken daily in their season
will cure anaemia that has become
chronic. It is the experience of mar
iners , that while lime juice is a pallia
tive of scurvy , potatoes are a specific.
Nansen ; , in his voyage in the Fram.
had no occasion to resort to the medi
cine , chest. The concentrated form of
! the fruits and vegetables that his
men were accustomed to eat in Norway
was worth a shipload of drugs. It is
first instance on record of the es
cape of Arctic explorers confined on
shipboard from the ravages of scurvy
and it was due entirely to the tonic ef
fect of the food supplied.
A ICotlont Wire-Walker.
There is a rat in Memphis which
gives a slack wire exhibition every
evening. He gives his performance at is
about the same time each evening and
generally has quite a crowd out to
him. The rodent crosses Front
street every evening about 7:30 walk
on a telegraph wire. He has done
trick fifty times or more and seems to
perfectly at home on the high wire.
TRUSTS IN ENGLAND.
HOW COMBINATIONS FLOURISH
UNDER FREE-TRADE.
They Thrive Itloro Luxuriantly in ItrltUh
Than in American Soil , anil All the
Uettor llccauso of the Absence of a
Protective Tariff.
Writing to the New York Press from
London under date of July 26 , Mr. H.
Curtis Brown , a staff correspondent of
that paper , presents with much force
and distinctness the subject of trusts
in England. Such a presentment is
most timely. It conies at a moment
when facts are important in order to
accurately determine the ex-tent to
which trusts abound in a country
xvhere protection is unknown. From
Mr. Brown's article , xvhich appears in
the current issue of the American
Economist , it is Iearn ° d , among other
things , that in free-trade England the
modern trust had its origin and has
attained to its most complete develop
ment. To-day , says this well-informed
writer , "there are more trade combina
tions to the square inch in England
than in the United States , and itvill
not be long at the present rate before
every trade in the tight little island
will be in a position to regulate compe
tition. "
In spite of the fact that the tendency
toward monopoly in England in the
last year has been significant and al
most startling , the average English
man will tell you , "We have no trusts
in England. " Mr. Havemeyer evident
ly had that idea xvhen he declared that
"the customs tariff is the mother of
trusts. " Hoxv mistaken is this belief ,
and how firmly the trust movement ,
under another name , has taken hold
upon English commercial life , may be
convincingly learned from the facts set
forth in detail by the Press corre-
spondent. According to this xvell-in-
formed writer ,
"Organizations xvhich in America
would be popularly called trusts noxv
control in England the fine cotton spin-
niug , the dyeing , screw manufacture ,
salt manufacture , newspaper manufac
ture , cotton thread , chemicals , the
crushing of oil seed , bedstead mak'ng ' ,
glass bottle making , manufacture of
electrical fittings and the cased tube
trade. There is no open market in pe
troleum , nickel , mercury , antimony ,
lead pipe , and fish. The National Telephone -
phone company now has a monopoly ,
and the number of trades in which the
leading producers have combined and
have begun to squeeze the smaller producers -
ducers to the inevitable end of estab-
iishing what is tantamount to a trust is
almost infinite. "
In one respect the trust idea has
been carried in England to an extent
thus far unknown in the United Stated.
The combinations operating separately
in different lines are engaged in com
bining themselves into still larger and
more comprehensive trusts. At last
accounts the dyers were thinking of
going into the chemical manufacturing
business , making their own drugs and
dyestuffs , and establishing what would
amount to a practical monopoly in that
direction. Likewise the retail chem
ists , themselves combined into associa
tions which regulated prices in many
districts , froze out the manufacturer of
mineral waters by building a factory
themselves and practically controlling
the market.
One of the latest combinations is that
of oil seed crushers , whose chairman is
Hugh Cullen Smith , late governor of
the Bank of England , and the manu
facturers of the paper used in making
newspapers are said to have formed a
monopoly. Twenty-four leading firms
in the engineering trade have consolidated
iid
dated with a capital of $70,000,000.
Tickers & Co. , armor-plate manufac
turers , have been buying up com
peting firms until they control the
trade. The Belfast linen yarn spinners
were lately reported to be organizing ,
and also the Scottish floor cloth manu
facturers , also the bleachers , who are
reported to have a capital of $30,000-
000.
000.All
All this in free-trade England , where ,
if Mr. Havemeyer and his demo-pop
admirers are correct in their conten
tion , trusts do not and cannot exist.
It appears , however , that they can and
do exist , and that they thrive wonder
fully well in that non-protected coun (
try thrive all the better , it would
seem , because of the absence of protec
tion and the active and always increas
ing competition which protection pro
motes and insures. Such , it will be
found , is the truth concerning trusts.
They flourish with or without a pro
tective tariff rather better without iff
than with it. of
Democracy and Trusts. is
Protection is a Republican policy :
the Democrats have formed a habit of
denouncing it , and they think they
must keep it up , with or without rea
son and sense. And so , with the splen
did record of protection staring them
in the face , and being unable to point in
to a single fact that is not to its credit ,
they wildly re-echo Havemeyer's flip
pant utterance with some such scheme
as this In their heads : The people like
the protective tariff ; let us try to make
them hate it by circulating the absurd
lie that it is the moher of trusts.
The hypocrisy of all this is quite as
comical as it is revolting. It shows
what a poverty-stricken old concern
the Democratic party is. Free silver
dead. Flag hauling as an is = ue is
worse than no issue at all. Fantastic he.
varns about trusts and the tariff are
the only remaining resort. The De
mocracy grabs at this grotesque ban for
ner and nourishes it frantically , hoping as
rattle voters and muddle their think
ing apparatus. But the dodge will not
work. It Is a confession of weakness
and a proclamation of stupidity. The
people sec through the ganio and will
coldly keep out of It. preferring to re
tain their prosperity , their open work
shops , their 100-cent dollars , their
sterling Americanism and their vo-
spect for the Hag of their country.
.
Rochester ( X. Y. ) Democrat and Chron-
Where Shoillii AVc IH-V
Forty years ago xve were far in the
rear as a manufacturing nation. To
day xve occupy the first rank. Forty
years ago xve were dependent upon Eu
rope for all our bciU manufactured
products. To-day xve are independent
of the world. Forty years ago the no
tion that xve should sell iron and ma
chinery in large quantities in England
would have been laught d at. Noxv this
kind of traffic is a familiar and groxv-
ing fact. In short , the protective sys
tem for which our economists and
progressive statesmen strenuously con
tended for so many year. * , often against
heavy odds , has triumphantly vindi
cated itself ; making the nation rich ,
powerful , self-contained and able to
supply its wants from its oxvn re
sources. We have a right at the close
of the century xvhich witnessed the
great struggle between free-trade and
protection to congratulate the men who
made the fight for truth , and xvho have
been so magnificently vindicated by ex
perience. Suppose the free-traders
had xvon the battle ? Where , then ,
should xve be ? Philadelphia Textile
Record.
Should TaUo a Kst. .
The Indianapolis correspondent for
a trade paper reports that there has not
been a year since 1S92 when the out
look for fall and xvintcr business in
that section along all lines has been as
flattering as it is nox\- . Jobbers are
confidently < expecting to see the record
of 1892 passed before the season closes.
It is stated that there is a healthy busi
ness confidence among all classes
which fully justifies the placing of
laige orders. Anticipating a rise in
prices , early buyers have stocked up
J |
heavily in order to take advantage of
market conditions , and jobbers have
laid in large supplies.
And yet Mr. Bryan and Mr. Belmont
profess to think that the people of the
country are laboring under heavy bur
dens. If these talkative gentlemen
would give their tongues and their
pens a rest for a fexv days and xvould
give even a cursory attention to tin ; ac
tual state of affairs in the country they
xvould perhaps realize the folly and the
nonsense of their blatherskite talk
about i the present heavy burdens of the
people.
The Aslmiisheil "MtublM-rjierk. "
Kim : to Ifcml Altnut.
The Democrats dare not go before
the people on the question of tariff for
protection they repealed protection
and plunged the countiy into hard
times and poverty , and they dare not
go before the people on that issue.
They arc afraid to raise again the cry
of free silver and dishonest money
they were beaten out of sight on that
issue in the lust campaign , and they
wish to get up some new issue. What
shall it be ? Why , say the Democrats ,
let us howl against the trusts. True ,
the Republicans have legislated against
ti usts , and the Democrats , when they
had the power , did not , but we can fool
the people and get into power if we
howl loud enough and long enough
against the trusts. At any rate we are
going to try it , for in these blooming
times of Republican prosperity and
plenty there is nothing else left for the
Democrats to howl about. Freeport
(111. ) Journal.
> "ot Make Votes.
For the present , and with the cur
rent rise of wages making the workingmen -
ingmen contented with their lot , it
would not be possible to rally a large
part of the labor vote against the tar
on the ground that it is the parent
trusts , even if that contention were
true , which it is not. Mr. Havemeyer
inadequate authority to quote on that
side , in view of the fact that our worse
trusts lie entirely outside the range of
protected industries , and that these
organizations have been shown by
English writers to flourish in that
country under free trade no less than
America under protection. But
whether true or false , it will not make
votes for the Democracy in the quar
ter where they most want them , and
the party can make no graver mistake
ihan to run after Mr. Havemeyer's red
herring. Robert Ellis Thompson , in
the Irish World.
When the Devil Was Sick.
Mr. Haveme3-er illustrates in a new
way the old rhyme that "When the
devil was sick , the devil a monk was"
. " In the days of the Cleveland ad
ministration Mr. Havemeyer moved
heaven and earth to secure protection
his sugar , but having failed to get
much as he desired he now de do
nounces the tariff as "the mother of
trusts. " Bu/iingtoc Hawk-Eye. de
WORKMEN WANTED.
Thn Kit ] l > lr Not SuflU-lrnt to Meet tli
IViiiHitil for Imlimrlal Ilnlporit.
Assistant Commissioner of Immigra
tion McSweeney , In his testimony be
fore the industrial commission at Us
recent sitting in New York city , stated
that applications for 10,000 unskille'l
workmen had been made upon the im
migration authorities since the revival
of business hist spring , but these they
could not and had no authority to fur
nish.
In 189'J an army of workmen , out of
work , started out to march to Wash
ington to demand employment. Then'
uere many hundreds of thousands
more workmen in the country who had
no work , but who did not start out on
that fruitless and foolish march. In
1S99. when Immigration has swelled
the number of laborers in the country
by many hundreds of thousands abov
what it was in J893 , employers of labor
are so in need of laborers that they ap
ply to the immigration authorities for
10,000 workmen. In 1S93 we had for
president the so-called "Moses of Free-
Trade , " the man who in his search for
an issue with which to make good his
leadership had gone back to the dead
past and had brought forth a bygone
and discredited policy and made it the
policy of his party ; the man whosf
election meant , above all , that this
country was again to make a trial of
same old policy which history showed
had wrecked its industries more thiin
once. In 1899 we have for president
the great apostle of protection , whose
election meant , above all things , the
restoration of protection to American
industries , whose first official act was
the calling of a special session of con-
giess for the purpose of enacting a
protective tariff law. In 189s : the pros
pect of the Immediate adoption of
free-trade and workmen seeking i j
vain for work ; in 1899 a protective tar
iff law and work seeking in vain for
men to do it. It is an Instructive pi"
turc.
I'mspprity 1'oiiitn.
Corn in Kansas this year will
over calamity by the largest major !
ever known. Toppku Capital.
It is gratifying to observe the stead
fly increasing volume of our transar
tions with all of our Latin-American
neigh hois. Troy Times.
Even the numerous strikes arc in
cliccri of the country's prnspontx
Workmen know better than to stnk
xvlien the times are hard. Buffalo Ex
pi ess.
The Kansas corn crop is estimated ur
. " 00,000,000 bushels , and the most ardent
of Populists concede a Republican vie
tory in the state for at least two years
tiG
Good times and Republicanism go hand
in hand in Kansas. New York Pros- . .
Prosperity is evidenced in the eaiu
ings of the railroad , xvlu'ch for Jum > ami
iit
the first half of July increased from 11
to 1G per cent over the corresponding
IV
period of last year. There is no better
gauge of the improved business condi
tions. Syracuse Herald. '
Pennsylvania papers announce that
marriages in the state have increase' !
decidedly during the last txx-o years
and one editor remarks that "tiu-ro i
an intimate relationship between mar
riages and the markets. " AnoUio
pleasing result may be crediUvl t >
prosperity. St. Louis Globe-Demon-
A Pittsburg dry goods dealer i
centiy stated that his firm ixutid
keep their trade stocked a'.tfnvientl *
from the time their traveling men VH
: ted towns until their return to I hem
Orders by thf > score camein unsulirire-I
most of thorn being "hurry-up" ord r *
He declared it to be practically impo--
sible to keep their stock of standar- !
goods up to a normal condition. Drv
goods dealers throughout the country
are having similar experiences. Th
people of the country have reached
that pitch of prosperity where they are
able to indulge in the gratification of
their tastes , when they can pay some
thing for beauty and for style. They
are making up for the miserable y ars
of 1893-189G , when they had to put up
with "any old thing. " Now that pro
tection lias brought back prosperity
they are making up for lost time.
A Foolish Luxury.
Champagne importations to rhi <
country have largely increased. If
another bumper for McKinley time ,
Back in the Gorman-Wilson dayth
thirst haunted aristocracy was lurkv f >
get beer. San Francisco Chronicle
Champagne as a luxury , and in pro
tection times there is always an in
crease in the u = > e of luxuries. Forr-ign
champagne , however , belongs in the
category of foolish luxuries foolish
because sparkling wines in ex-cry waj
equal to those sold under foreign labels
are now being produced in our own
country. It is no longer true tha'
champagnes of the first quality are
only to be had from France. America
has made splendid advances along this
line , as along many other lines of sur-
cessful competition.
Troublesome I'rcMperlty.
When the Wilson-Gorman bill v/a
getting in its deadly work nearly all oi
the railroads in the country were in
the hands of receivers ; noxv that th
agent of prosperity is on deck they are
troubled because of their inability to
receive all the freight xvhich offers it
self. San Francisco Chronicle.
Cult iris-
Sandy Pikes "How yer like TJ
Man xvid de Hoe. ' Billy ? "
Billy Coalgate "De last time I me-
man wid de hce he made a
deep impression on me , an' I kin
impression jit. "
