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Challenges facing local governments today literally requires a new way to see. It's as if our vision has been blurred by the extraordinary stress of managing in this complex economic environment. Whether attempting to rebuild in a post-recession climate, or persevering through another year of stagnating or declining revenues, the challenge remains: how to allocate scarce resources to achieve our community's highest priorities. Through the new lens of priority-based budgeting, which provides powerful insights, local governments are making significant breakthroughs.
The June 2008 edition of PM magazine introduced this new budgeting process, which unveiled a way for local governments to spend within their means by continuously focusing on the results most relevant to their communities and the programs that influence those results to the highest possible degree.
The concept involved leveraging each tax dollar so programs with the greatest impact on results were distinguished from programs with a lesser influence. Four years later, priority-based budgeting has proven to be successful in more than 30 communities that have chosen to follow this initiative. Communities that have embraced it have redefined the notion of return on investment—it's a "return on results," a societal return, where each dollar is evaluated in terms of its influence on the community.
As more communities began reaping the anticipated benefits of this new way of seeing, however, something unexpected also happened. Surprising and new conversations began to emerge. The data assembled by communities to help evaluate their programs' overall priority opened up fascinating revelations about the programs themselves, all of which has created a vast new perspective.
Putting the scoring criteria to use, in particular the criteria having less to do with the program's influence on results and more to do with additional reasons that programs are relevant to the community, raises such questions as: Are the programs mandated? Are there other entities providing a similar service, do they pay for themselves?
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And these were just the beginning of the new conversations created by looking through this new budgeting lens.
Priority-based budgeting enables local governments to truly see more clearly which programs are of the highest relevance. The wealth of data about individual programs obtained through the program scoring process also causes endless new conversations about programs to occur. All will contribute to the local government's ability to allocate its resources to its highest priorities and focus on delivering high-quality services that reflect what the community expects from it.
One of the criteria in addition to community results against which a program's priority is evaluated is whether or not that program is mandated to be provided. For most organizations that are striving to balance their budget in order to address fiscal reality, simply uttering the word mandate strikes a note of terror and inflicts immediate paralysis.
How often in budget meetings do we hear the words: "It's mandated, we have no choice"? Sometimes this is applied to a program and oftentimes to an entire department. At that moment, this program (or department) is off the table for discussion in terms of its continued level of funding.
Wouldn't it be fantastic to have a conversation about those mysterious and sacred mandated programs, including questions like: What are they exactly? How much do we spend to provide them? How important are they to our community? What does the mandate truly require?
These conversations are now occurring in local governments that have embraced the new budgeting system. The process recognizes that a mandate is a critical reason for offering a program and should be a differentiator in terms of that program's level of importance, but it should not be used as a get-out-of-jail-free card. The process also recognizes that there are varying degrees of mandate that a local government is dealing with, which are taken into account as each program is evaluated.
To be considered a mandate, there must be written evidence of a formally adopted action by an official governing body or agency that calls for the program to be provided. Once that is established, the program is then evaluated against the degree of that mandate, that is, whether the program is required to be offered by:
By understanding the degree of mandate associated with each program, including the criterion of no mandate, the local government can begin to clearly make a distinction between those requirements imposed by a higher authority, which are more difficult to change, and those mandates that are truly self-imposed and much less difficult to change. It can also see how much it is spending on highly mandated programs contrasted with the cost of those that are self-imposed.
For priority-based budgeting implementers, there is clearly a new lens through which to study programs that have previously been out of view because of the belief there is no choice and thus no discussion. Surprisingly, when evaluating mandates at the program level and requiring evidence of what the mandate truly says, most local governments have discovered that what they are mandated to provide is far less than they believed.
Imagine identifying all the programs a local government offers and prioritizing them from highest to lowest in terms of importance to the community. Then, being able to explore the degree of mandate associated with each program and to uncover a host of opportunities for policy discussions about mandated programs.
For programs that are highly mandated (federal or state legislation, city charter, or related) but are of low relevance or importance to the community, communities can now discuss whether they are potentially over-delivering on these programs based on what the statute actually requires.
State law, for example, requires Colorado counties to issue vehicle license plates, but Jefferson County evaluated this program using the priority budgeting process and found it to be of low importance in terms of achieving that county's stated results.
In evaluating the exact wording of the mandate, it was clear that the only requirement was to issue the license plates. The statute said nothing about offering that service in seven convenient locations across the county with a wait time of five minutes or less.
Where previous conversations about this mandated program were off the table, now there can be a conversation on the level of service required to meet the letter of the law and how resources can be either shifted to programs that are of higher importance to the community or reduced to help the local government balance its budget.
The process also allows for the separation between programs that are mandated by a higher level of government and programs that are required because the local government chooses to operate an enterprise that involves regulatory compliance measures.
Programs that have a regulatory compliance component are not mandated in the true sense of the word since the local government could opt not to operate that enterprise entirely and eliminate the need for the regulatory programs. In most local governments, for example, there is no mandate from above to operate an airport, provide wastewater treatment, or operate a water utility.
While there are programs that then have to be offered to address regulatory compliance issues established by an external regulatory agency, these could be eliminated entirely if the community decided to cease operation. To represent that an airport, solid-waste disposal site, or a water utility is federally mandated in most communities is not accurate. If these types of enterprises are determined to be of a low priority to the community, the mandated card simply can't be played, and the local government should seriously discuss whether or not to continue operating these enterprises at all.
Finally, what about programs that, at best, have a self-imposed mandate (i.e., local legislation) or adopted policies and practices? For programs that have been evaluated through priority-based budgeting as a low priority to the community, isn't it worth discussing whether or not that self-imposed requirement should be lifted?
Having recently implemented the new budgeting process, Billings, Montana, is now looking at programs identified as a low priority to its community. It is revisiting local ordinances or adopted practices that have been in place a long time but now may be considered antiquated or irrelevant to the community as it exists today.
Data gleaned will help officials focus on just those low-priority programs with a self-imposed mandate. It will also help determine if the resources being devoted to them are better used elsewhere or if eliminating the program and the self-imposed mandate can help them more effectively balance their budget.
Another evaluation criterion used in priority-based budgeting is the degree of reliance the community has to provide a particular program. Too often, the perception is that there are no other options available for residents, businesses, or visitors to receive a particular service except through the local government they pay taxes to support. If budget cuts require programs to be eliminated, those constituents would be left high and dry.
In these times of fiscal constraint, wouldn't it be beneficial to talk about programs for which there might be alternatives available so that constituents could still avail themselves of these services, without relying entirely on the limited resources of the local government?
Inarguably, a local government should be the only game in town for many programs. It's preferable not to give residents a choice as to whom they call to patrol the streets, arrest criminals, collect taxes, or install traffic lights.
But imagine if residents could call anyone to fix that pothole in front of their houses or even do it themselves? Is the city or county the only way someone can take a yoga class, play softball, rent a DVD, participate in an after-school program, have yard- waste removed, or obtain an inoculation?
In determining a program's overall importance, it seems logical to consider the degree of reliance the community has on the local government and evaluate specifically whether:
With this information at a program level, a local government can talk about the level of dependency the community really has on it to provide specific services, and if there are other options, aggressively explore those opportunities. Think of the conversations that could arise with such questions as: Who else offers something similar? Are there local or regional partnership opportunities to explore? Should we even be in this business if someone else offers it? Are we providing something for free that others are charging for?
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With every level of government and most nonprofit agencies struggling to address declining revenue streams, looking for opportunities to partner to provide services seems to be a win-win proposition. In an era where taxpayers are concerned about the costliness of duplicated and redundant services, being able to identify ways to consolidate programs and share in their delivery is simply common sense.
With the data collected through the program-scoring process in priority-based budgeting, local governments can clearly see where these partnering opportunities exist and then actively pursue those conversations—putting cost-effective service delivery ahead of retaining total control. Adjoining cities, counties, school districts, and special districts can consider consolidating such services as fleet maintenance, information technology, facility maintenance, bomb squads, K-9 units, dispatch, internal audit, recreation programs, and building inspections to name a few.
Partnering with civic organizations to provide after-school programs, welfare programs, and senior programs, as well as sponsoring parades, festivals, fireworks, movies in the park, and other events that bring the community together also provide ways to conserve limited resources without sacrificing programs.
What about those programs for which a private-sector provider has been identified? These are areas truly worth exploring to ensure that the local government is indeed the right service provider and is not in competition with private businesses, especially if one of the community's stated objectives is to stimulate the local economy.
There needs to be a critical conversation about programs that are offered by the private sector and are also a low priority for the community. These are truly areas where limited resources could be saved and the program turned over to—or at least provided in partnership with—local business.
Even if the local government determines it wishes to continue offering these programs, it's a sure bet the private sector is not offering them free of charge. At the minimum, there should be a fee that recovers their cost.
For most local governments, it has become a question not of what we want to provide but rather, what can we afford to provide. Simply raising taxes to cover increased costs to offer a program much less add programs is not the answer taxpayers are looking for.
A critical discussion these days surrounds how programs should be paid for—general taxes levied on the community or fees for services charged to the end user? In other words, to whom should we send the bill?
The priority-based budgeting process identifies programs along with their associated costs. It also documents any program revenues, including fees for services, grants, or assessments that are specifically charged to recoup the cost of offering that service. The evaluation criteria allows the local government to identify which programs have some form of full or partial cost recovery and to what level.
This information allows communities to not waste time in budget reduction conversations by considering programs that already experience a substantial level of cost recovery. Reducing or eliminating such programs may successfully reduce expenditures but the revenues also disappear, and the community is back to square one in terms of balancing the budget.
Having the detailed information at the program level in priority-based budgeting allows for a variety of rich conversations among policymakers with such questions as: Are we covering the full cost of the program with the fee being charged and if not, why not? Is it appropriate to charge fees for certain programs? If the fee revenue decreases or the grant funding disappears, should we continue to fund that program at the same level as before?
For programs identified by the process as a low priority, budget discussions can explore several options. Where cost recoupment is appropriate, it seems reasonable to look at fees for services in order to continue offering these programs.
Where a local government knows a low-priority program is at best self-imposed and that there are private businesses offering a similar service, wouldn't it be obvious to strongly consider charging the end user the program's full cost, including administrative and overhead costs, in order for the program to continue to be offered?
Some communities have also identified how broad a constituency each program serves, differentiating between those that benefit the entire community versus those that benefit only a small constituency. For these programs, especially ones that don't advance the community's goals, shouldn't the local government at least discuss charging the small group of users for the service instead of funding it with general tax dollars paid by the entire community?
ICMA's Center for Management Strategies provides education and technical assistance on leading practices in local government management, including the priority-based budgeting model. For more information on the center, visit http://icma.org/en/results/management_strategies/home, or contact Cheryl Hilvert at email@example.com.
It somehow seems fitting that author Henry Miller once wrote that "One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." Miller once lived in Big Sur, which is near the city of Monterey, California, and one of the pioneer implementers of priority-based budgeting.
We in local government are currently under such stress that we long for a destination when the economy recovers, when our resources are abundant, and there is less pressure to find more.
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This workshop was convened by the National Academies of Science, Committee on Population, and was chaired by Robert Wallace of the University of Iowa. The goal of the workshop was to consider specific, low-cost interventions drawing on the lessons of demography, public health, economics, community medicine, and other fields. The interdisciplinary approach is reflected in the invited presentations.


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A former Chittenden County state's attorney will be a special prosecutor in the investigation of Burlington Telecom.
The Burlington Free Press reports that Chittenden County State's Attorney T.J. Donovan has appointed Robert Simpson to the investigation.
A state report found that Burlington's municipally owned telecom, which is about $50 million in debt, has been violating its state license since it started operating five years ago and has little hope of recovering.
A state investigation was started last winter after it was revealed the utility had used $17 million in city money to cover its operating costs. The city money was not repaid.


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For the first time, the state is pulling back the curtain on the budgeting process.
Last year the Vermont Workers Center, a citizens advocacy group, pushed for a new statute that requires the state to seek public participation in the development of the appropriations bill — before the Shumlin administration presents its annual budget proposal.
In two hearings, one scheduled this evening, officials will explain how the budget is created. The forums held tonight and on Nov. 19, will be livecast through Vermont Interactive Technologies at locations around the state.
The idea is to give ordinary citizens more of a say in how the governor develops his budget — before his formal presentation of the spending proposal in January. Typically, Vermonters get a chance to react to any administration's spending proposal after the fact. Now, thanks to a change in the law, governors must publicly air their spending priorities before they have fully developed the budget and take into consideration what members of the public want.
Jeb Spaulding, the secretary of the Agency of Administration, will moderate the two-hour plus forums. Public comments will be considered, he says, during the construction of the governor's 2014 budget recommendations.
"A lot of people don't understand the budgeting process," Spaulding said. He sees the forums as an opportunity to educate the public and to give people an opportunity to comment. Nevertheless, the governor's budget is the governor's budget, he says. That is to say, "it is the governor's proposal and it needs to reflect the governor's priorities. I think it's understood that the budget they propose reflects what they want to do. On other hand, this gives people the opportunity to make suggestions and help set priorities. It's a good thing."
Jim Reardon, the commissioner of the Department of Finance and Management, will begin each of the meetings with a 15-20 minute presentation explaining how the state generates tax and other revenue and how the administration prioritizes appropriations for services and programs. He will also talk about the state's budget challenges.
"This is a new process and we're taking it very seriously, and we hope that we're successful," Reardon said. "It doesn't mean going forward we won't need to tweak it based on feedback from those that participate to improve on the process."
Paul Cillo, founder of Public Assets Institute, a think tank in Montpelier that specializes in budget and tax policy, helped the Vermont Workers Center push through the provision in statute last year which, in addition to the public participation requirement, includes a statement of purpose for the state's budget that highlights the economic well-being of Vermonters.
Perhaps more importantly, Cillo says, the new law initiates a different approach to budgeting, using a "current services" model that calculates the state's expenditures based on what it cost the previous year to provide services to Vermonters. The budget gap — the difference between revenues and expenditures — would then be based on actual need as opposed to an arbitrary calculation, Cillo says.
This year's budget gap is $50 million to $70 million, according to recent Joint Fiscal Office calculations.
In the past, the budget has been built on a 3.5 percent growth model. Cillo advocates for a 2 percent plus inflation growth rate.
Cillo says over the past 20 years, governors have taken a "manage to the money" approach that starts with revenues and "that's what guides the budgeting process" instead of conducting a needs assessment to determine "what Vermonters need first."
"There has been a perception among some in the Legislature that the budget has not been cut," Cillo says. "If you didn't cut the governor's budget, then you didn't cut the budget, but there is no way of knowing if a governor cut the budget before he even brought it to Legislature. We haven't been able to discern that because we don't have a current services budget."
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Just how does Reardon build the state's $5.3 billion annual spending proposal? Very carefully. Much of the budget — about a third or $1.8 billion — is based on federal money. Education spending and human services, including the state's correctional system, make up 72 percent of the state's spending.
Last year the Shumlin administration recommended a General Fund increase of 5 percent. About 2 percent of the increase was used to cover lost tobacco settlement money, one-time carryforwards, a change in the federal participation rate in Medicaid and foster care maintenance payments, among other expenditures.
This year the Shumlin administration has asked departments to level fund their budgets, which in budgeting parlance, Reardon says, "could be construed as a budget cut." If the level fund holds, state agencies will have to cover upward pressures at current revenue levels.
The specter of federal cuts is the great unknown at this point. Reardon says there are three ways the so-called "fiscal cliff" could affect Vermont: 1. if there is no action in Washington and the federal government starts to bump up against the debt ceiling Vermont's favorable bond rating could be jeopardized; 2. if federal funding is put through a sequestration process, "we're not going to be in a position to backfill and there will be some reductions in funding"; 3. action or inaction from the federal government could slow the economy and adversely impact General Fund revenues from personal income taxes.
Tonight's hearing is from 5:15 to 7:30 p.m. at Vermont Interactive Technologies locations in Bennington, Lyndonville, Newport, Rutland, St. Albans, White River Junction, Williston and Montpelier. For more information, go to http://www.vitlink.org.
The second hearing will be held from 4:45 to 6:45 p.m. on Nov. 19 at the aforementioned VIT locations, plus Brattleboro, Johnson, Middlebury and Randolph Center.
Both meetings will have live streaming; the link will be posted on the Finance and Management's main webpage at: http://finance.vermont.gov/home.


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Wrestling Professor Quiz #42 (Monday, April 3, 2006)
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Answers can be found BELOW. Good Luck.
1. The most famous recent backstage fight didn't happen backstage; it happened live on PPV. JBL clobbered famed hypocrite Blue Meanie (the guy who whined about WWE not returning his calls, but meanwhile he never returned our emails requesting he finish the incomplete interview he did with us a few years ago). What PPV did this happen on?
2. This fight wasn't on tape, but pretty darn close. After the Montreal screwjob, Bret Hart decked Vince McMahon backstage. Vince was seen walking very woozy down the hallway, while Bret joked that Vince's face ran into his fist. In what movie was this actual footage shown?
3. In early 1993, a WWF mid-carder attacked Vince McMahon and tried to choke him. Luckily he was stopped, and this guy's career obviously went down the toilet after it happened. Well, WCW did find it humorous, since they signed him for a match against Sting as a surprise opponent at a WCW PPV shortly thereafter. WCW named him The Prisoner, but in WWF he was named what?
4. Sid Vicious earned the name "Squeegee Sid" based on a near-fight he had at a bar in 1991 with a guy much, much smaller than he was. He left the bar and came back with a squeegee, something I use in the shower every morning. What wrestler was Sid "fighting" with when this happened?
5. Speaking of Sid, he was a participant in perhaps the most brutal, well known backstage fight of the past 20 years. Sid and Arn Anderson had a gigantic hotel-room brawl in 1993 in which Arn was blindsided by a chair leg and beaten badly. Arn, who is extremely tough, shook it off and fought back, dealing blows so hard that Sid ended up with large lumps on his head from the swelling. But then scissors came in to play, and Arn was nearly stabbed to death. He was bleeding buckets and spraying like a punctured hose. Luckily, one WCW wrestler heard the noise and came to Arn's rescue, saving his life. What WCW wrestler made the save?
6. Shawn Michaels is a veteran of backstage fights... and has lost them all. Of this list, which one of these people has NOT ever gotten into a legit fight with Shawn?
Bret Hart
Marty Jannetty
Some military guys at a bar in Syracuse
The Harris brothers
7. Ken Shamrock is one of the toughest dudes to ever walk the Earth, but not many men are bad enough to fight off TWO men at once. Especially when those 2 men are immature little boys in big boys' bodies. These 2 guys, one of whom even got in a fight with Ric Flair once, may not know 2 + 2, but they do know 2-on-1. If either of these guys had tried Shamrock one on one, they'd have died a quick and painful death. Instead, they both handed it to Kenny pretty bad. But hey, that's easy when it's two against one. Name these 2 bullies who double-teamed Mr. Shamrock. (By the way, I'd love to see those two take on Ken and Frank Shamrock in UFC's first ever tag team shoot, but that will never happen.)
8. Ric Flair is a legend and everyone's favorite, but honest he is not. He'll act cordially in public, and then bad-mouth them in private. Just read his book, in which he takes jabs at Scott Steiner, Mick Foley, Bret Hart, Raven, and others. The feud with Mick was real, and resulted in Ric punching Mick backstage very recently. Very briefly, explain why Flair and Foley had legit heat.
9. Speaking of Flair, he was in another altercation somewhat recently, and was reprimanded by Vince McMahon for it. According to Flair, it was due to years and years of pent-up aggression stemming from the WCW days. While Arn guarded the door, Flair bitch-slapped what WWE/WCW personality? (Hint: Flair talks about it in his book.)
10. Vader is a huge, tough, intimidating guy. But he got his ass handed to him backstage at WCW in the early 90s. This guy was definitely tough, but half Vader's size. Who is this guy who beat up Vader?
-The Blue Meanie/JBL fight happened at ECW One Night Stand 2005.
-That Bret/Vince footage is from a movie called Wrestling with Shadows. That is the 2nd best wrestling movie ever made, behind Beyond the Mat.
-The guy who attacked Vince McMahon was Kevin Wacholz, known in WWF as Nailz.
-Squeegee Sid got that name from an infamous 1991 bar incident with Brian Pillman. Mike Graham (shame on him for selling his father's life's work to Vince) was also involved in that, and while that wasn't the guy I had in mind, I accepted that answer.
-2 Cold Scorpio saved Arn Anderson's life in that hotel fight, and he saved Sid Vicious from a very lengthy prison term.
-Of the guys listed, HHH has never been in a legit fight with Shawn Michaels.
-The 2 bullies who beat up Ken Shamrock were the Nasty Boys. Sags was the first wrestler to ever sign an autograph for me, as he waited for Knobs outside the Arena by the rental car. Sags was visibly pissed when us fans noticed him and darted toward him with pencils and notepads in hand. Nowadays, I'll bet he wishes those same fans would ask for his autograph.
-The Flair/Foley relationship started when Flair was WCW booker in 1990 and Foley felt he didn't give him a fair shake. Foley expressed this in his book, which Flair heard about (and likely never read) and got pissed, and gave Foley a receipt in his book in 2004. Foley naturally responded to that, and things came to a head backstage shortly thereafter, with Flair throwing a punch. The only reason this is funny is that it took Flair to reach his early 50s to get a backbone, and now that he has one, he vents out at people who don't deserve it and continues to kiss up to those who do.
-Flair had a brief physical exchange with Eric Bischoff a few years ago. I love Flair, but had that happened under my watch, he would've been fired for that behavior (as would have JBL, the Guerreros, and Bob Holly, among others, for similar incidents).
-Vader was trounced by Paul Orndorff, one of the toughest and manliest wrestlers to ever step into a ring (aside from his passing out on a live WCW PPV 6 years ago.)
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A Landlocked Sailor
Sarah Orne Jewett
One morning early in June Doctor Hallett, a young assistant surgeon in the navy, took it into his head to go trouting. It was his second day of leave after a long sea-service, from which he had come straight inland to his old home. On this first morning of the visit he had happened to wake very early and find the sky overcast and the wind in the south, and yielded at once before a temptation to leave an affectionate household sound asleep, except the old coachman at the stable, who was always stirring with the first birds. It took only a moment to choose the best rod that was left in a boyish den above the carriage-house, then there was a hurried breakfast to be stolen, and off the Doctor tramped gayly to find his favorite haunt, the Dale Brook, and follow it up among the hills.
Nothing better can fall to the lot of a busy, much-companioned man than just such a chance of being alone in a piece of well-known country long unvisited. It was some years since John Hallett had followed the Dale Brook before, but neither appeared to have changed. The brook had often suffered in its conditions from drought and freshets, and so had the man, but both were in good condition on that June day; the Doctor at least had that comfortable sense of existence and continuance which made him, for the moment, know and understand himself. One possesses very seldom this unaffected sense of self, the rarely felt self-acquaintance that fell upon us first at the first conscious step we took out of infancy. Solitary and undisturbed, we are now and then aware of ourselves: not the person the world takes us to be, not the ideal person our hopes and ambitions are trying to evolve, but the real man. This is the clear self-consciousness that mirrors the surroundings of a happy solitude. One might say that such moments as these, such closeness to nature, are like a Sunday rest to all one's activities. "In it thou shalt do no work;" in it alone one may "listen to the voices" and receive what nature has to give and what man himself is hardly ever fit to receive.
The fern-filled crevices of the ledges were familiar to the young surgeon's feet. He wandered slowly up the great wooded slopes where the brook came swiftly down, turning now and then to look through the branches where there was a glimpse of the lower country, and toiled hastily across teasing bits of swamp where the alders were tangled overhead and the light was dim and the brook shallowed out into black mud and bright green grass and sopping clods of moss. Now and then the sun almost shone out and quickly clouded over again: it was a perfect morning for fishing. The brook was full and clear, and deep by its flashing falls, where bubbles floated long and trout were hiding. There was a scent of new checkerberry leaves and bay on the high land, and of sweet-flag and mint in the swamps; overhead the cat-birds and yellow-hammers scolded together like disagreeing neighbors. Beyond the first long slope and the boggy strip of upland was a breadth of high, uneven farming country, where the best reaches of the little stream wound their crooked way; beyond this again rose the higher hills. The fisherman began to notice the pleasant weight of his basket as he tramped ahead towards the best pools of all, for although it was a good bit of distance even in his light-footed boyish days, he always made a point of going up to the very source of the brook in a cleft between the hills, -- a tiny pond full of springs and shaded by noble oaks.
The strip of country which was about to be crossed was mostly taken up by sheep-pastures and tillage. At the edge of the woods, when Doctor Hallett was just pushing his grumbling way through a clump of alders and birches which fringed the brook in a fashion most provoking to the calmest angler, he heard the bushes cracking and rustling not very far off, and supposed his neighbor to be a wandering cow, but presently, just at the edge of the open pasture, he caught sight of the head and shoulders of a man. One is fiercely jealous by instinct of a rival fisherman. He hitched at his shoulder-strap with satisfaction at the weight of eight or ten good trout which the basket held, -- they were safe enough at any rate; then the holiday surgeon stopped short and looked sharply at his antagonist, whose figure was unexpected enough but quite familiar. For one dark instant he was puzzled to recall the man's name; there was no rod in his hand.
"Holloa, Mike!" he shouted the next moment, -- having rustled no bushes himself, out of respect to silence-loving trout, -- "Holloa, Mike! How in the world do you happen to be here?"
"The divil may fly away wit' me if it ain't the Docther," said Mike, coming straight through the brushwood as if it were tall grass. "God bless you, sir; is it yourself, sir? I heard long ago that this was your own country and your folks lived down below there, but I thought you were on the say. Well, well, Docther, I was often hoping for the day I'd see you again. Any luck, sir?" and the Doctor swung round his creel in silence.
"Faix, they did all be waiting for you then," said Mike handsomely, shaking his officer's hand in a warm, determined grasp, and looking at him with delighted eyes. "There do be plinty folks thramps up the old brook and goes home as impty as they comes. Dic'ration Day there wa'n't a b'y in the country that wa'n't fishing in it, and -- well, you've got a thrick with the throut; that's plain, Docther."
"Those can find who know where to look," said the Surgeon, not displeased by such flattery, and they turned and walked side by side into the shade of some little pines. The sun was high and the morning was getting late, and the angler had begun to lose the first zest of pleasure.
Three years before, just when he was last ordered to sea, Doctor Hallett had been stationed at one of the marine hospitals, where Mike Dillon was brought one day with half a dozen bones broken and generally out of repair by means of a fall and bad crushing under a broken hoisting apparatus on board ship. They had known each other before as surgeon and patient on a long cruise, and it fell to Doctor Hallett's lot to mend him and patch him and pull him through his smart touch of surgical fever and at last send him out, a crippled man, into a careless world. He was pale with hospital bleach, and as weak as he was stout with rapid building up, -- discharged for good, of course, and appealingly cheerful as they said good-by. The Doctor remembered well how he had wondered what the poor, good-natured, great fellow was going to do. He might turn into a shoemaker; but one couldn't force one's self to speak of it, for Dillon had the spirit of a rover. After the very best that could be done for him, one of his legs was a good deal shorter than the other. The Surgeon looked now to see how he managed with walking, and was pleased to notice that he seemed to be put to less inconvenience than had been feared.
"Mike," said he after they had recovered from a seizure of awkwardness born of mingled strangeness and old familiarity, -- Mike, you look as if you had turned into a farmer and got landlocked."
"Wasn't I born a farmer then, faith!" answered Mike. "County Wexford, sir, parish o' Duncannon. The first thing I remember, Docther, was riding home top of a barrow o' little pertaties and me father trundling me, God rest him! No, I wa'n't born on the say, sir," said Mike sweetly, "I'm a Wexford boy."
The former patient was something well above six feet in height if he stood on his long leg. There was the look of an old-fashioned New England farmer, like a kind of veneer, over his Irish sailorhood. Conformity and ready-made clothes were to blame for it. The Doctor stretched himself like a dog in the sun; the breeze sung in the pines and shone on the young birch leaves. "Oh, how good it is to feel the steady ground under you," he said. "Come, speak out, Dillon. You know I'm interested in your case. I should have as soon expected to meet old Parlow in a prayer-meeting as to come across you here in a pasture." Old Parlow was a hospital nurse.
"Sure he might forget himself an' talk very strange to the audience, sir," chuckled Mike. "He'd the most bad words of any man I ever talked with, but he'd a very tender hand with the sick. Parlow was like a mother to me some o' thim bad nights. He's dead, sir."
"Is Parlow dead?" exclaimed the Doctor.
"He is that indeed," answered Dillon with considerable solemnity. "I do be wondering sometimes if they've got it settled where they'd send him, -- there was good in Parlow, -- but I suppose he'll be after getting his orders to one place or the other by now. Were you back at the old hospit'l lately, sir?"
"No," said the Doctor, "not for more than three years. I'm just in from Valparaiso."
They were sitting together in a little open space at the woodland's edge where some fine sheer turf was just then well shaded, and near by were plenty of juniper and lambkill-laurel and low blueberry bushes. Just at the Doctor's back was a high-standing, fragile old pine-stump, where a great tree must have been cut in winter when the snow lay deep. He lay back against a knee of it with his feet stretched out over the soft grass, while Mike Dillon sat erect at his side, looking down affectionately now and then, and amusing himself by pulling great pieces off the powdery old wood, which sifted down, disclosing shiny black ants that hurried about in despair. Mike struck at them furiously or tossed the bits of rotten wood after a stray bird or butterfly, sprinkling his companion with brown and gray crumbs and chips and pieces of red-topped moss. Both the men had a comfortable, boyish feeling, but they were silent for a time; there may have been some sense of superior rank and old naval regulations, but the business of the man-of-war's man with the stump and the butterflies went steadily on.
"I suppose this was all pasture once," said the Surgeon at last, for all these birches and young stuff have come up within a few years; they ought to be cleared. This turf is the best sort; good sheep-pasture, isn't it, through all this region?"
"You're right there, sir," said Dillon, clearing his throat deliberately, as if there were need of further comment and explanation, but he said nothing more.
"This must have been an enormous white pine," said the Doctor. "It's a very old stump and all worn away by weather, but it must he a good four feet across now at the butt."
"Pretty close to it," said Dillon, turning to regard the ruin. "I does be minding some old story they tell about this stump; 'twas a known tree at any rate."
"How far do you live from here?" inquired the Doctor by way of leading question.
"In the old Dale place itself, sir, or up to Dillon's, as they say now," answered Dillon proudly." I was walking me finces, having a little spare time."
"Good for you," said Doctor Hallett with large sympathy; but there was a pause in the conversation, and presently he went on:
"I left the old Minerva in Brooklyn only yesterday; she's likely to be there all summer. I think she's worse below decks than they were ready to believe."
"She'd more leaks than a basket this spring four years ago when I was aboard of her," asserted Dillon. "The innocint inspictors was ch'ated in a lot of copper sh'athing, and there was black-hearted conthractors retired from business soon after to live 'asy on their means." Dillon spoke with an air of complete assurance. "There was rats in her the size of dogs, though, an' we knew by that she'd float longer, or we'd all gone ashore together. I always remimbered those rats for the biggest I was ever acquainted with. Anybody does be having great knowledge of rats that stays long in the service. My wife 'on't believe me when I speak of the size of them."
"Your wife?" interrupted the Surgeon with renewed interest. "I know all about those rats, but I never heard of your being married."
"Well, now I'm feeling homesick for the old days from seeing you, sir, I'm as well to be telling you honest, sir, but 'tis true for me I'm well married and settled since I was to the hospit'l," answered Mike with an air of pride. "Look here, Docther, let me pit the fish out here a bit further in the cool bushes. They're fine trout, an' it's growing warm." He got to his feet a little clumsily, took the basket from beneath a clump of juniper, and carried it down towards the brook, where he could be heard tearing off handfuls of birch leaves to cover them, and letting the young tree-tops swish back. The Doctor got his match-box out and a handful of cigars. When Mike returned he sat down a trifle further away than at first, so that he and the Doctor faced each other. The Doctor suddenly became aware that he personified for the moment all the delights of sea-going friendship, that he was a kind of embodiment of the service. Mike was looking squarely in his face and had lost all self-consciousness; they were only two sailors together.
"I ain't seen a navy man this long time to have a word with," said Dillon. "I does be thinking of the b'ys a good deal, sir. No, keep it yoursilf, Docther; you'll want to be smoking a bit as you're going home, an' I've got me pipe in me pocket'll do for me. I don't know did you happen to see the old crew of the Lion was paid off last week, home from Gibraltar? I gets what I can on the papers, but that's not much," and Mike gave a sigh. "I was born a farmer, but I never thought I'd die one, sir."
The tobacco was well lighted; the desired moment for the narrative of Mike's adventures seemed to have come.
"God bless us! I'll have to tell you all," said Mike; "'tis a great story for a sayman that was always glad to be off shore. Whin I got left out o' hospit'l that time by yourself and Parlow I felt grand to be going; yourself knows how I'd been t'asing as if for me liberty out of jail, for all I had great kindness from every one there. I was none too strong, sir; there was no stringth in me legs, an' they so surprised with being mismated altogether. Aff I wint wit' me bowld air, but I didn't get far down the road on me leg that's too short an' me leg that's too long till I felt as if the two of 'em was punching through at me shoulders an' a great pain grinding in me back, so I had to go sit down in the side o' the road. I tried would I lay down, an' I tried would I sit up, an' I couldn't contint myself wit' neither one till I cried me heart out there in the dead leaves, an' a bird come an' lighted on a bush and made me swear wit' her little song that begun new every time and stopped short in the middle. I'd been light-hearted as a b'y, faith I had, for all me hurts, an' now me life was broke in two for me, an' I looked at me legs an' says I, 'Where'll you go now, Mickey lad, an' what'll you do whin you get there? You've got thim two damn legs an' a stiffness in your lift elbow; an' just feel o' your poor back and your side how they ache,' says I to myself, making the worst of everything. 'You're no sailor now,' says I, an' 'on't be a sailor again while the world lives, an' that's the only fag ind of a trade you've got. Look at that now for you,' says I."
"Poor fellow!" said the Doctor.
"I thought the sky'd turned dark, I did indeed, sir," said Mike; "I wished I was back in the old hospit'l; I thought I'd creep back and beg lodgings for what work I'd do about the place, an' then I minded how old Parlow'd lift me in his arrums and I knew I'd no stringth to do that for a sick man nor anything else, and I'd got sick of the smell of the medicines, besides being ashamed to go back to it after me coming away so bold. I'd been allowed a taste of somethin' to stringthen me by Parlow when I was l'aving, and my heart was wake in me wit wanting more. I felt in me pocket for an ould knife Parlow gave me, mine being lost in the pocket of me bloody clothes the time I got hurted. I couldn't count the times I'd cursed Parlow as well as I knew how an' he paying me back the same way, but I cried for him thin wit' the knife in me hand for company an' I in the side of the bushes by the fince. I never blamed any man since if I saw him a coward. 'Twas intirely from walking the first mile away from the hospit'l whin I'd only been loafin' round the garden of it before."
"You had to start some time or other," said the Surgeon kindly. "I remember it was a good day a little too warm perhaps. Picked up your strength pretty fast, didn't you, Dillon?"
"I'll tell you the truth, Docther: it wasn't the week's ind before I wouldn't take a bould word from anny one. My head was as high as ever, and I feeling pretty well and 'ating like the birdie that pays the rint, an' me pains didn't trouble me where me bones was minded. The weather was fine and smiling, and I kept on through idleness far up the country. Says I to myself, 'We'll take a hand wit' the planting for a while.' I heard great tark in the towns that help was very scarce on the farms, and I thought I'd go footing it along as slow as I liked and see all the places, and pick me a nice, 'asy corner where I'd stay for a while an' hear from me pinsion. I'd plinty of money first, thanks be to me frinds, to go in the cars, but 'twas fine to be out and always hungry, so I took time enough to fill me up, but I never could, sir, and I thought I'd get me poor legs used to travelling together. The green fields looked fine to me, I'd been so long at sea. I got lodgings handy to the road all the while, and I'd sometimes get a lift in a team from pity on me legs an' love for me buttons, and so I worked mesilf along, and I was very proud-feeling at first, but at the end I came to want, and I couldn't suit anybody's needs on the road. I'd no chance wit' the farmers, you'll see; they'd look me over, for all I was sure I could plant and hoe wit' any man, and they'd till me I might go to the women folks and get me dinner, or else they'd say I might get out of it an' they wanted no tramps. So the weather come hot an' I got surly an' was as bad as troops on the march with rags and dirt after I'd had two weeks more travel. I'd spint me money, Lord knew whin I'd have me pinsion, and everywhere I wint 'twas full before I come; an' I wont tark all day Docther, but I'd fallen in great trouble. How'd I got there I d'know, an' how'd I get back I d'know, an' so I lost heart altogether or I was ready to fight the whole road by turns. Now I'm goin' to tell you me story --"
"Take a cigar; your pipe's out now, Dillon," said the Doctor encouragingly, and Dillon looked doubtful for a moment, then laid his pipe on the grass beside him, turned the cigar in his fingers, and after a moment of reflection cheerfully accepted a light.
"I was toiling up the gravelly road below here a mile or a mile an' a half, sir," he went on, with a fresh breeze in the sails of his story. "You'll mind how there's a long hill comes up this side of the old schoolhouse, and beyant there's a little t'read of a brook that comes into this; there's trout in it too, in a place I'll be showing you where it's dammed by a tree or two across; I own woods there, sir; 'tis two miles from here, but the fish do be crowded in the wather."
"Good for you, Mike," said the Surgeon in a brotherly tone.
"Yes, sir; 'tis true for me, sir; I remimber thim old days in the hospit'l, sir. I don't be much for fishin' anyways mesilf. Well then," said Mike gallantly, "I was coming up that long hill an' I was as hungry as a saint's dog. I'd no pinny left in me pocket; 'twas noontime, an' I'd a mind if school was keeping to ask the childer at the school-house for a bite of bread an' cheese, an' I'd tell them a story to pl'ase them. 'Twas Saturday intirely an' I'd forgot it, an' the door was shut. I looked round in the grass an' I saw the crust of a piece of pie, an' I picked it up as if 'twas money and ate it down and looked everywhere for another. That part of the country is very poor-looking land, and I sat awhile on the school-house steps thinking of the size of me for a fool. I didn't know what made me go so far from the salt water, or how would I get anybody to write a letter for me or give me a cint for a card to sind to a frind that would help me out. An' where was any friend I'd write to with the ship gone to sea, yourself having sailing orders with the rest, an' Parlow having told me he was going to the old country for a holiday. I come near makin' another whillalu over meself: me head was the last ind of me to get well, there's the truth, but that was the last day it ever felt hollow on me as it did then, an' the school-house hopped up and down when I tried to look at it to keep me steady. Oh, I'm too long wit' it all, sir, but I wa'n't so bad as the first time in the bushes. 'Go wash your face,' says I, 'an' get dacint, an' go up to the top of this hill,' says I; 'there's sometimes fine land on the top of gravelly hills like this, and then, if you don't find annything, turn round an' come back'; an' so I got laughing, an' there was courage in me crust of pie that I'd found, and I stepped meself on up the hill.
"Docther Hallett," continued Mr. Dillon with much solemnity, "whin I was on the top what did I see, an' I looking ahead to seek me fortune, but a fine figur' of a woman comin' out from a little white house beyant, an' she running whooping down the road towards me, as if she was expecting the likes of me all day; but she stopped by some bars and I walked on the best I could to meet the lady and tell her I was after being there intirely and thin I saw what she was after. 'Twas not meself, but the crows that were pulling up her young corn by the roots and 'ating it. She'd run to and fro in her field like a boy, an' she yelling and shaking her apron. 'Lord be good to me,' says I, 'here's me chance! Me shirt wants buttons as bad as me inside wants bread, -- 'tis a tidy-looking house; I wish I'd pl'ase the lady.'
"'Let me do that ma'am,' says I. 'I'll stand still in the field and them little birds'll take me for a scarecrow.'"
"What did she say to that?" asked the Surgeon with interest.
"'I don't want no tramps about me place,' says she, as many another had said before her.
"'A lady like you,' says I (Dillon repeated the conversation in persuasive tones), 'oughtn't to be sp'iling her perty skin,' says I, 'out driving crows in the hot sun.' She was not young, sir, but she had good looks, an' I minded that the first thing. 'Go in, ma'am,' says I very gintle-spoken, -- 'go in, ma'am, an' rest 'asy; for here's a man, though but a poor one, 'll scare the crows in your stead an' be thankful for the kind privilege!'
"'They do trouble me bad,' says she. 'I don't want you round,' says she, very plain and hearty, 'but I'm baking pies the day an I'm all alone.' then she caught herself up an' was sorry for having let on to me that she was all alone.
"'Don't mind me, ma'am,' says I; 'I'll defind you to the last drop of me blood before anny one shall lay a finger on you!' and she turned to me wit' a laugh an saw I had the right feelings, and we tarked a little more, an' she wint in the house and I drove thim crows like a crazy windmill an' watched the blue smoke coming out of the chimney, and by the time the sun got over me head she come out by the fince an' set me down a fine plate heaped up three stories high with a French roof, an' I ate every crumb that was there and set the plate down with a finer polish than was on it before. I niver thought of Parlow nor how would I get back to the hospit'l from that time."
The Doctor began to say something appreciative of the situation, but Dillon did not stop to listen.
"I got me plateful again for supper an' I thought out me course. It wa'n't best to do anything but go away out of sight that night, for fear she'd be plain with me that I couldn't stop at all, an' the gates of Heaven would be shut by me own fault. So I says good-night whin the sun dropped an' I goin' by the house, an' she come out an' offered me fifty cints for me throuble, but I says no; she'd given me in food an' kindness all the work was worth; an' so she invited me very wishful to stop an' see her if I come that road again, an' she hoped me leg would get better an' all them things. There was some navy buttons still left on me to show me trade, an' when I looked back she was lookin' after me too out o' the windy; but I wint down the road like the tramp I'd fallen to be, and when it came dark I stole back an' got into her tidy barn and I slept well there in the hay."
"Was she young?" asked the Surgeon, as if to gratify a neighborly curiosity.
"I'm afther telling you, sir, that she wasn't young. I should think she might be sixty years of age at the time or a little less, but a fine, smart lady, sir. No, she wa'n't sixty, I suppose, but she was that kind you wouldn't think how old was she, but only a fine shape of a woman, an' good-hearted looking. 'Twas your first thought of her that she was good-looking, and not old nor young."
The Surgeon could not help glancing up with a suspicious smile. Mike was not above forty and his eyes and forehead and his curly hair had not lost their boyishness, and the Doctor smiled broadly, but Mike looked serious and innocent as he proceeded.
"The next morning was Sunday you'll see, sir, from the day before having been Saturday, an' I was out very early with the sun just blazing up. ''Twill be a fine hot day,' says I, 'an' the old lady'll be vexed wit' them crows, an' she'll want to l'ave home to be goin' to church, an' there's nobody to l'ave the crows wit' but me,' an' I see two or three black old thieves in the air that minute; an' I took a turn t'rough the orchard an' come up the road, so if she was looking out she'd think I'd spint the night far beyant. An' I dealt very bowld wit' thim birds, Docther, for I could see them roosting all in the archard-edge and among the young pines overright it, one here and one there, keeping watch would I go away an' they'd all light down together. But I rose no noise; she'd had a hard day's work, the cr'atur', an' I says, 'Let her get her Sunday sleep; and whin breakfast-time arrives,' says I to my stomach that was complainin' o' me walking the field to and fro an' it empty, says I, 'she'll remimber you an' no fears o' that, me darlin'.' An' I wint on blowing a foul curse at the crows wit' me finger ends an' walkin' the field's deck till I thought she'd got a stroke or something, sir; the house looked like she was dead in it; an' of a sudden I saw the door fly open and up wint every crow into the air with a great flutter out of the trees. There wa'n't a black feather of them from the field. And she looked sharp an' saw me in the impty place, an' how the birds had all been sitting round as if they mint to pick me bones, an' I dead wit' the hunger, an' I heard her burst out laughing, an' she shut the door an' wint in. An' in a minute the smoke come out of the chimney as if 'twas the nose of a gun, an' I sat down and waited by the field side. 'Twas a good breakfast, sir. I got me willin' poor legs to carry me to it, an' 'twas by the kitchen table inside I was, sir, an' herself mindin' the crows from the door."
The story had reached a climax of triumph, and Mike and his surgeon both laughed, while the latter signified an eager desire to hear more.
"She wint to church the day, sir. I adwised her to it, the weather being fine, an' after me iligant breakfast I'd stop till night an' welcome, before I wint on, the nixt day being Monday; and she wint away down the road like a gerrl with her house-key in her pocket. I was aisier with the crows for a while at noon, the sun being very hot an' she'd locked up her well in the shed, from not being sure of me characther, so I could get no drink unless I wint far down the hill for it, an' I was most bate with the heat, I having always in the worst of times stopped off the road in the middle of the day. I'd a mind to go on, once, and l'ave the crows in to their dinner, but for the lady thrusting me, an' so I stayed on till she come hurrying home looking an' looking to see would I be still there an' everything safe. I watched through the fince and rose up as she came by. 'I was afraid you'd gone,' says she before she took thought, an' I says, 'I gave me word to a lady,' I says; 'an' [an] you've misthrusted the wrong man,' an' she was very pleasant intirely. 'Don't mind the crows anny more for a while,' says she. 'Look at thim then,' says I, an' threw one o' me stones into a tree an' up they wint with a great clack and squawking into the air. 'I'd lost half me corn but for you, sir,' says she.
"'I'd best mind 'em for a day yet,' says I; 'they've come out of the whole country into the one field,' says I. I'd respict to her being a lone woman an' very helpless wit' 'em, Docther, and havin' nobody to call on for help."
"Of course," said the Doctor gravely.
"Wit' her l'ave, thin, I made me a fine little shady hut by the field gate out of some inds of old boards, a sintry-box you might call it ashore, an' I wint on duty there, an' she give me a large hand-bell and I made a little heap of stones, and wit' me pipe an' a song I'd a fine afternoon there, an' the good company o' mesilf whilst I was making a clapper I'd often seen at home whin all the boys do be out minding the crows for the farmers, and before long I was raising a great noise with it if a crow would fly down. 'Twas that same night I got the invitation in to drink tay with herself, and I cl'aned me old clothes the best I could, though I was outrageous-like for a man-o'-war's man, I was indeed, but she was very r'asonable, and I told her me story, and other thravels of meself and frinds by land and sea; and the evening was as short as the day was long, an' she had great pity on me throubles, and I got a bottle from her for me lame legs: to rub the short one so it would grow or to reef the lingth of the long one, I forget which it was mint to do, for neither leg was the better of it. And she saw how well I could help her round the place, and that me heart was honest and me luck very bad, and I having been started at home a farmer's boy. Herself was disappointed wit' a man that had promised to come and work, and she'd all her land planted, and no courage how would she ever get through the s'ason.
"'Twas very hard for the lady, an' I'd seen it all from the beginning, and me arms were pretty good, an' the farm all being on a side hill in respict to me legs was great convanience. So she said I'd best stay till she minded up me clothes, I being a sailor and having served the country, sir, and hersilf having a young brother once that ran away to say and was lost. Betune it all we got on very well. I'm there yet, sir."
"Good harborage for you," said the Doctor warmly. He could not help thinking how much better it was for the hearty, good-natured fellow than to have drifted into the miserable idleness of a sailors' refuge to waste his days in drinking and foolishness. Dillon wore an air of authority and looked very prosperous for a country farmer and a limping, disabled man.
"How soon did you get married?" the doctor asked with interest, wishing to hear more of this seaman's pastoral.
The two men were on their feet now, but Mike had an air of wishing to make further confidence.
"Deed, then, I've been married two years and two months," said he. "I never thought I'd die on the land. We're fine and happy, sir, as the days are long, and they're very long too, this time of the year on the hills. I'd like to kape to the watch on an' off, as it is on board ship. Yes, I'm married, Docther -- you see the old lady's very sharp with the work an' 'twas very expinsive for her wit' me wages, so she made us no throuble."
"The old lady?" repeated the Doctor doubtfully, a little puzzled by Mike's tone.
"Oh, coom now, sir!" exclaimed Mr. Dillon with consternation. "Sure, Docther, 'tisn't hersilf; 'tis the niece I married, a fine, pretty girl, one that she took very small to bring up and of late years promised the farm to her if she'd get a good husband. I'm that indeed, sir, too; their only fright is I might run away to sea. And we all drives the crows together!"
The Doctor laughed until Mike began to laugh too, and went away, still smiling, to get the creel from its cool hollow. His romance had taken such a sudden and unexpected turn that the listener resorted to professional interests at last to cover his amusement.
"You might have come out of that accident a good deal worse," he said. "You've done well, Mike; nobody in the world would think of hiring you for a scarecrow now."
Mike nodded. "Come up wit' me to the house," he urged; "we'll thry the cider an' I'll drive you home in the cool of the afternoon, sir, -- 'tis too hot for you to be tramping t'rough the woods."
"All right," said Doctor Hallett, as Dillon went on ahead in the narrow sheep-path they were following. "You're a lucky fellow, Mike."
"Tis the thruth for you, I'm lucky, thin," agreed Mike, looking over his shoulder. "I've got the beautiful wife, 'tis yoursilf'll say so from having seen her, an' the Lord is good to me legs in respict to its being a hill country. The old lady's a mother to me. But I made bowld to slip away from it for a while the day; 'twas thinkin' o salt wather and the gay old times wit' the b'ys I was whin I caught sight of yourself comin' t'rough the brush."
"A Landlocked Sailor" appeared in Lippincott's Magazine (64:753-764) in November 1899, and was reprinted in Richard Cary's Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, on which this text is based. Apparent errors have been corrected and indicated with brackets. If you find errors or items needing annotation, please contact the site manager.
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"In it thou shalt do no work;" ... "listen to the voices": For the commandment to do no work on the seventh day, see Exodus 20. See also Leviticus 23 and Numbers 9 for discussions of keeping the Sabbath, a topic that receives a good deal of discussion especially in the Old Testament. Whether the second phrase also refers to a biblical passage is difficult to determine in a context of enjoying wild nature, where the allusion could as easily be to Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Nature" (1836) or William Wordsworth in any number of poems such as "Tintern Abbey" (1798). The bible refers often to listening to God's voice in stillness or a pastoral or private situation, as in Psalms 95 and John 10, and in the story of the transfiguration of Christ in Luke 9. Perhaps also the story of Pentecost in Acts 2 is relevant.
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checkerberry leaves: checkerberry or wintergreen leaves could be used for flavoring items such as medicines and tea. They also have been chewed for their flavor.
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sweet flag: Acorus calamus; a sweet-smelling wetlands plant; the underground stems were once used to make a gingery candy. Blooms April through August.
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cat-birds ... yellow-hammers: The cat-bird is probably the gray catbird, named because its characteristic call note is a cat-like mew. A yellow-hammer is the golden-winged woodpecker or flicker in North America.
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Dic'ration Day: Decoration Day was celebrated on May 30 to honor the dead of the American Civil War by decorating their graves. Later became Memorial Day, on which all deceased American veterans are remembered.
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Wexford: Wexford is on the west coast of Ireland, south of Dublin.
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in from Valparaiso: Almost certainly the Doctor refers to Valparaiso, a port in Chile.
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lamb-kill: Kalmia angustifolia, a variety of laurel that is poisonous to livestock if eaten in large quantity.
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Gibraltar: Town and port on the island or rock of Gibraltar at the entrance of the Mediterranean Sea.
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schoolhouse: This word usually is hyphenated in this text. I have retained this inconsistency.
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whillalu: hullabaloo.
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French roof: It seems most likely from the context that a gambrel is meant, rather than a French dormer. (Research assistance: Chris Butler).
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The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis is giving guests something to celebrate: The award-winning hotel will unveil the stunning new makeover of its ballroom this fall. And a new holiday party package will allow local groups and businesses to be among the first to experience the elegantly redesigned entertainment space.
The top-to-bottom restyling of the luxury hotel's 13,000-square-foot ballroom, lobby and 4,500-square-foot pre-function area features new silk damask wall coverings, furnishings and carpet, as well as updated restrooms. "We wanted to keep the traditional, timeless feel of The Ritz-Carlton," says Christie Pink, director of sales and marketing. "It has a clean, almost Oriental-inspired look." A gradually softening blue color scheme, along with hints of more jewel tones, runs from the lobby and pre-function space to the ballroom.
The redesign means more room to host larger gatherings, up to 900 guests in the ballroom and 800 in the pre-function area, for an array of celebrations—from galas, fundraisers and corporate events to wedding, anniversary and birthday festivities. "We can host a high-end wedding, then turn it around the next night for a corporate awards dinner," Pink notes. The ballroom also can be divided in two, for a wedding ceremony on one side and a reception on the other, for example, Pink says. "This way, it can be one fluid evening."
For November and December holiday events, the hotel's new Holidays Wrapped Up party package offers complimentary holiday décor, including holiday trees and nutcrackers to celebrate the season. With one click on the hotel's website, clients can choose from three holiday packages. And three special menus—luncheon, evening hors d'oeuvres and drinks, and dinner with seasonal items by director of catering Robin Albach and staff—also are available. "It is not only great food and services; we're also doing all the decorating, and playlists can be customized," Pink notes.
The special runs through January, but events booked and contracted by Sept. 30 also will receive a complimentary Prosecco toast and self-parking for attendees, as well as the option to feature a complimentary grand finale dessert to cap off their dining experience.
Holidays Wrapped Up is designed to take the stress out of the holiday season, Pink explains. "We wanted to streamline the process of arranging your holiday party. This is a one-stop shop, and it is all taken care of."
From over-the-top festivities to small intimate affairs, The Ritz-Carlton has you covered, Pink says. "Whatever kind of event you can imagine, we are here to help you make it happen."
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Keys suffer first loss, fall 5-4 to Dash in extras
By Mike Mueller / Frederick Keys | April 9, 2013 8:02 PM ET
Sometimes the last out is the toughest to record.
A three-run fifth inning put Frederick ahead Tuesday night, but the Winston-Salem Dash mounted a two-out rally in the ninth inning to tie the Keys at 4-4 and would win the game 5-4, thanks to Kevan Smith's RBI single in the 10th.
The win was the first of the season four Winston-Salem (1-3) and the loss was the first for the Keys (3-1).
Keys reliever Eric Beaulac pitched a scoreless eighth inning and retired the first two batters in the ninth before a two-strike infield single and three straight walks tied the game. With a full count, Chris Curley fouled off one pitch and then took the game-tying ball four from Beaulac.
"We couldn't get that final strike," said Keys manager Ryan Minor. "It was tough. Eric (Beaulac) did a good job in the eighth and with the first two hitters in the ninth and then gave up that cheap single and wasn't able to get that final strike. But those things are going to happen. ...It was one of those nights where he just couldn't get that last guy. That's the hardest out of the game to get, that last guy."
Zach Fowler got out of the ninth inning when Doug Herbek popped up and was called for interference as he ran into Fowler as the Keys left-hander tried to make the catch on the first-base line. In the top of the 10th, three straight one-out singles gave the Dash the lead when Joe De Pinto narrowly beat catcher Michael Ohlman's tag after he received left fielder Mikey Planeta's throw to the plate.
Cody Winiarski recorded his first save of the season, retiring the Keys in order in the bottom of the tenth.
Winston-Salem took their first lead of the game on Joey DeMichele's two-run first inning homer off Keys starter Zach Davies, who would find his rhythm after giving up that shot. Davies allowed three runs in six innings, the other Dash run coming on Kevan Smith's groundout in the sixth.
In front of 2,088 at Harry Grove Stadium, the Keys scored their first run off Winston-Salem starter Terance Marin on Connor Narron's RBI single in the fourth and then took the lead in the fifth. Nicky Delmonico singled in two runs and Michael Ohlman scored on a fielding error by De Pinto in center field on Webb's single in the next at-bat. The Keys, however, were unable to score again in the inning, despite having runners on second and third with one out.
"Tonight it was something where it's always good to add on and not stop with just a one-run lead," said Delmonico, who added it was good for the team to "bounce back" from an early deficit and take the lead for the third consecutive game.
Winston-Salem made four errors Tuesday night, bringing their four-game season total to nine, but Frederick scored just one run off the Dash's blunders.
Marin pitched 4.1 innings and allowed four runs, three earned, his first professional start. Kevan Smith and Ryan Haddow each had two hits and two RBIs for Winston-Salem, while Travis Adair went 3-for-5 with a stolen base for Frederick. Delmonico finished 2-for-4 with 2 RBIs and Planeta went 2-for-5. The Keys tallied 11 hits and left 22 runners on base.
Fowler took the loss out of Frederick's previously unblemished bullpen and Jarrett Casey, who threw a scoreless bottom of the ninth, picked up the win for the Dash.
Lefty Eduardo Rodriguez takes the mound for the Keys tomorrow against Winston-Salem's right-hander Justin Collop in game two of the three game series. First pitch is slated for 7 p.m.
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Evolution Hoax
Published in English in Saudi Arabia, Arab News carried a report about the New Zealand TV channel Voice of Islam"s broadcasts. In its report dated 19 June, 2008, the paper, which has a circulation of 52,000 and is distributed in the Gulf, Arab countries and Europe, quoted the following comment about Harun Yahya's documentaries from the Australian Muslim convert Muhammad Thompson:
"An Australian convert who embraced Islam in 1981 has been using his television channel — Voice of Islam (VOI) — ... to spread information about Islam. ...
The one-hour program, which is aired on Saturdays and Sundays ..., includes recitation from the Qur'an with English translation, lectures on Islam, explanation of the basic pillars of Islam, and Harun Yahya's Islamic documentaries on the creation of universe and animal life. He commended Yahya's quality programs saying they are equal to those produced by the BBC."


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Announcing the winner of the Tie One On For Safety® Infographic contest! Congratulations Joni Graves from the Wisconsin LTAP (Local Technical Assistance Program) at the University of Wisconsin – Madison! Learn more about Tie One On For Safety®, MADD's longest running and most visible public awareness project, at www.madd.org/toofs.
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Hi everybody--
Thank God we have internet in our room, I was already suffering from MDA withdrawal.
So we're at a Sheraton for a homeschooling conference, which means restaurant meals for 5 days. Yesterday during our 8 hour drive, we just noshed on nuts, fruit and beef jerky after a good breakfast of eggs and organic chicken sausage. (Had to stop at a McD's for the kid, though....I know, but he was starving and whining. Did I mention the drive was 8 hours?)
Last night at dinner hubby had a big steak, broccoli and asparagus, and I had cedar-plank salmon with the same veggies. The asparagus was grilled and so smoky and delicious we both had seconds. We are seriously considering going back to that same restaurant today for more of that asparagus, it was that good. I'm sure the waitress thought we were nuts, having orgasms over the vegetables, LOL.
Oh, and yes, there were cocktails, but hey, it's a vacation. There's a health club and pool here, so we'll be able to get in some nice primal exercise.
Now, off to the first presentation and then on to omelettes (and hopefully some fresh fruit) for brunch...


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Francis Duggan
A Strange Question Indeed - Poem by Francis Duggan
A young man under thirty his memory seemed gone
I thought for a moment he's having me on
When he asked me what year 'twas he did not even smile
Then methought he does not seek his amusement through guile.
I told him 06 yet it puzzles me so
That the year he is living in he does not know
Can people in their mid twenties suffer from the onset of alzheimers disease
That at such a young age his memory is starting to freeze?
But then I thought with him there could be something else wrong
Maybe last night he did overpuff on his bong
'Tis not good for the memory this stuff wizzy weed
Either way the young man of help did seem in need.
He had not been drinking as he walked a straight line
And health wise he is one who looks rather fine
And though to have a poor memory is never a sin
He seems too young not to know the year he is living in.
He looked in his mid twenties or a year or two more
And one I had never lain eyes on before
From one of his age a strange question indeed
The affects of alzheimers or too much wizzy weed.
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Buffet Enhancements 010YC4 New Age Chafing Dish Soup Station with Base 10 Qt.
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✔ Removable base with fuel cup✔ Spoon holder✔ 18/10 polished stainless steel✔ Dripless glass lidSee more product details
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Use the Buffet Enhancements 010YC4 New Age Chafing Dish Soup Station with Base 10 Qt. for serving your signature soups in style. This chafing dish comes with a drip-free glass lid making it perfect for keeping soup and gravy at just the right serving temperature, while maintaining its quality. Featuring a beautiful mirror-polished stainless steel body, this chafer distributes and retains heat well while adding a unique, upscale appearance to any buffet or self-serve area.
- 10 Qt. Chafing Dish Soup Station
- Removable base with fuel cup
- Spoon holder
- 18/10 polished stainless steel
- Dripless glass lid
- Lid hinge clutch
- Both clamshell lid and base are lift off easy to remove for cleaning
- 16" x 20" x 17"
- Brand:
- Buffet Enhancements
- Model #:
- Ship weight:
- 18 lbs
- Sold As:
- 1 ea
- Item Number:
- Capacity:
- 11 - 12 Qt.
- Construction/Finish:
- Stainless Steel
- TigerChef ID:
- 140728