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...llers in Biggar, Perth, and Dalkeith. Thomas was the forester of Newbattle Park, Gavin was a baker, John a maltman, Francis a chirurgeon, and ‘Schir W... ..., 186, 204, 368.- [R. L. S.] **Ibid. pp. 158, 299. – [R. L. S.] ***Working farmer: Fr. laboureur. 7 Records of a Family of Engineers my soul in praye... ...VED that in 1665, James Stevenson in Nether Carsewell, parish of Neilston, county of Renfrew, and presumably a tenant farmer, married one Jean Keir; a... ... Carsewell, parish of Neilston, county of Renfrew, and presumably a tenant farmer, married one Jean Keir; and in 1675, without doubt, there was born t... ...o a considerable extent, with ship-timbers. The author has actually seen a park (Anglice, meadow) paled round chiefly with cedar-wood and mahogany fro... ...other things.” It may further be mentioned that when some of Lord Dundas’s farms are to be let in these islands a competition takes place for the leas... ...lls and candlesticks: like a rich man’s folly for an ornamental water in a park. Smeaton followed; then Stevenson in his turn corrected such flaws as ... ...his critical period Mr. Adam Duff, then Sheriff of Forfarshire, now of the county of Edinburgh, and ex officio one of the Commissioners of the Norther...

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...ogether—the very recent trysts, stolen moments, long romantic walks in the park, hot kisses and even hotter sex. The whole nine. Damn. No wonder Tyler... ...n. Anything could bring him back here." "Dagny..." "Jesus. Did you have to park right in front of our house? Are you out of your mind?" New Life Inco... ...n window to signal before he made a left turn and headed for Payton Mart's parking lot several yards ahead. He shut off the ignition, turned to Kelly ... ...olling fields of green and grand Victorian Colonials, quaint ranch houses, farmhouses, cottages and modern townhouses and condos everywhere a body tur... ...England situated forty-five miles from Manhattan in southwestern Fairfield County. When Tyler mentioned the population—an appalling and anemic 18,000—... ...wo- bay garage round the back and attached to a charming stone and shingle farmhouse at the end of a cul-de-sac. Kelly glanced out his window, stared ... ...of short bursts and then one long one, and a woman came to the door of the farmhouse, Kelly knew that his curiosity would soon be sated, more than he'...

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...s this lead?” “It comes out at Abbotstoke, but I have to go to an outlying farm.” “Papa,” said Norman, after a few minutes, “I wish you would let me d... ... on his eyelashes. “I’ll leave you here,” said Dr. May; “I have to go to a farm- house close by, in the hollow behind us; there’s a girl recov- ering ... ...the thought how angry Ethel and Harry would be that the para- graph of the county paper, where “N. W . May” was recorded as prizeman and foremost in t... ...in every one’s prepa- rations and expectations, in Ethel’s researches into county histories and classical dictionaries, Flora’s sketching inten- tions... ...net; but, in general, everything has gone on very well, and he has a great farm, besides an office under government.” “Oh, so he went out as a settler... ... May refused his share of invitations to dinner with the neighbours in the county, Flora generally found that she could go under the Hoxtons’ guardian... ...akes Mr. Rivers think it our pet scheme; so, what does he do but offer his park, and so we are to have a regular fancy fair, and Cocksmoor School will... ...did, that the Duchess Sarah was his model woman; for as they walked in the park in search of Phoebe Mayflower’s well, he gathered a fern leaf, to show... ... going in, Meta asked, “Do you think it would be wrong for me to cross the park to see that little burned girl, as Mr. Wilmot is away to-day, and she ...

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...lliam Heathcote needed to be recorded in their relations to the parish and county. This has, therefore, here been attempted, together with a record of... ... to the borders of the Itchen, through a wooded slope known as Otterbourne Park. The boundaries of estates fixed those of parishes, and Otterbourne wa... ...another manor of his own, where he was received by his resident steward or park- keeper, and took up his abode, the neighbouring clergy com- ing in to... ...itular bishops in partibus infidelium, to perform their duties. One of the park-keepers of Merdon was judged worthy of a Latin epitaph, probably the w... ...the bridge crossing the moat fell in and choked it; it became a marsh; the farm was united to another, the picture removed, and the only inhabitants a... ...as no favourite with Richard Morley, who rented the forge in Hursley , the farm of Ratlake and Anvyle, as Ampfield was then spelt, and thought him a s... ... in 1655, and at Otterbourne. The children of William Downe of Otterbourne Farm are distinguished by double black lines below their names. Oliver Crom... ... to whatever was required of him. He had been member of Parliament for the county of Hants, and had been placed at the head of the list of his father’... ... by his widow Frances, one of the daughters of Sir Charles Wyndham, in the county of Southampton. Mrs. White thus lost her husband and her mother in t...

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...ompliment him by touching on his affairs. ‘A small one; not a quarter of a county,’ said Patrick. 9 George Meredith ‘Productive, sir?’ ‘’Tis a tramp ... ...er that’s the weaker part I can’t at present decide. My taste is for quiet farming and breeding.’ ‘Friendship, as far as possible; union, if the terms... ...s astonishing for promoting enlistment. Hear it any morning in your London parks, at the head of a march- ing regiment of your giant foot-Guards. Thre... ...troops of urchins about the one cow of Lon- don, in the Great City’s Green Park. A bequest to the nation of the best of these pictures of Old John, by... ...iments to Jane: of the two he was more interested by the elder lady, whose farm and dairy in Surrey he heard her tell of with a shining glance, observ... ...n forth an echo from Mrs. Lackstraw, and an invitation to come down to her farm in the Spring. ‘That is, Mr. O’Donnell, if you are still in London.’ ‘...

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...nd descending sidewalks neatly paved with erect signs posting the words: No Parking At All Times. The City of Irvine doesn't like parked cars becaus... ...Besides, Gabriel and I are toking up so I shouldn't be driving fast. Orange County cops I mean pigs — — love to pull you over for the smallest offens... ...anything to worry about, except fetching the paper and taking a walk in the park, which reminds me of something that I've been waiting to tell you. ... ...'ve been waiting to tell you. I was walking my dog a week or so ago in the park right by my old high school. I noticed a new, chrome-plated drinkin... ...e scenic route starts to become a little too scenic, with all the expansive farms and endless acres of apple orchards. I take the nearest exit, in o... ... make me come here to Culver Plaza, the Chinatown of Irvine and ergo Orange County. It's always crowded with Asian people of course, all looking for... ...se there's a — — Starbucks inside. Asians in Irvine and the rest of Orange County love to congregate at Barnes and Noble and Borders, since they ca...

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...liam Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone ha...

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...the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascer... ...ns. Thirdly, even apart from the political as- pects of Warwickshire, this county happens to be the central one of England, as regards the roads betwe... ...nited with his town calling the rural and miscella- neous occupations of a farmer. Meantime his avowed business stood upon a very different footing fr... ...ngest daughter and the heiress of Robert Arden, of Wilmecote, Esq., in the county of Warwick. The family of Arden was even then of great antiquity. Ab... ...e’s principle of valuation. “We find,” says he, “that John Shakspeare also farmed the meadow of Tugton, containing sixteen acres, at the rate of eleve... ...Malone, had he been alive, would probably have answered, that Tugton was a farm specially privileged by nature; and that if any man contended for so u... ...nt. Next, we are informed that his offence was deer-stealing, and from the park of Sir Thomas Lucy. And it has been well ascertained that Sir Thomas h... .... And it has been well ascertained that Sir Thomas had no deer, and had no park. Moreover, deer-stealing was re- garded by our ancestors exactly as po... ...us recapitulate the points of the story. A baronet, who has no deer and no park, is supposed to persecute a poet for stealing these aerial deer out of...

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...esses, though it was owned by the mother for her life. It was an estate of farm and moorland, worth some three or four thou- sand a year, and the hous... ...een the more careful where she trusted her daughters. They belonged to the county by birth and tradi- tion, and were not to be mixed up with the fleet... ...red that it might last them past a thrush’s nest, in the hedge between the park and plantation, a somewhat treasured discovery of Grace’s. No such goo... ...t last to find them coming away without the nest, and after cross- ing the park, arrived at the house, tired out, but with two hours of the boys still... ...again. “Don’t you think,” said Fanny, “that some boy may have got into the park?” “My dear Fanny, I am sorry for you, it is quite out of the question ... ... and the domestic gallery was completed by two prints—one of a middle-aged county- member, the other one of Chalon’s ladylike matrons in wa- tered-sil... ...rides in search of objects of interest. She liked doing the honours of the county, and achieved expeditions which her coachman had hitherto never perm... ...Auchinvar property, that should have been poor Archie’s, and what with the farms and the moor, it would bring you in towards three hundred a year for ... ...o the mouth; it has always been in our hands, and paid rent as part of the farm. You know how well it looks from the garden-seat, but it always grieve...

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...where can you go that they have not been there before? Is there an English farm—is there an English stream, an English city, or an English country sea... ...ard servants waylaid us at every turn, like so many human man traps; where county mem bers, framed and glazed, were eternally presenting that peti t... ...nting that peti tion which, somehow or other, had made their glory in the county, although nothing else had ever come of it. Where the books in the w... ..., I have said, and I shall say, nothing. In the city of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, both of them remarkable for self taught men, that were... ...] THERE MAY BE A GREAT VARIETY of conflicting opinions with regard to farming, and especially with reference to the man agement of a clay farm; ... ...t, however various opinions as to Charles Dickens 88 the merits of a clay farm may be, there can be but one opin ion as to the merits of a clay farm... ...onderful building Mr. Paxton has designed for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, that it ought to have fallen down, but that it refused to do so. We w...

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... where it is lowest, in the year 1900, in Dorsetshire, a reason- ably good county, and in Lancashire, the worst in England, for the same year. Each en... ...e sound populations by using highly habitable areas as golf links, private parks, game preserves, and the like, and public-spirited people could combi... ...on of labour, and, as the able lady who writes as “L’amie Inconnue” in the County Gentleman has pointed out in a very helpful criticism of the origina... ...from the old middle class, the class that was shopkeeping in the towns and farm- ing in the country, the class of the Puritans, the Quakers, the first... ...ys watching his school matches, and thumbs and muddles over the records of county cricket to an amazing extent. But these things are indeed only sympt... ...th echoes of Froebel, T olstoy , Herbert Spencer, Ruskin, Herbart, Colonel Parker, Mr. Harris, Matthew Arnold, and the Morn- ing Post, trying to find ... ...r struggle in our turn. Slavery still fights a guerilla war in factory and farm, cruelty and violence peep from every slum, barbaric habits, rude barb...

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...R 1 INTRODUCES ALL THE REST THERE ONCE LIVED, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, tak... ...d. With a portion of this property Mr Godfrey Nickleby pur- chased a small farm, near Dawlish in Devonshire, whither he retired with his wife and two ... ...nd pounds in cash, and to his youngest son, Nicholas, one thousand and the farm, which was as small a landed estate as one would desire to see. These ... ...s, originally made for tops, which might have been once worn by some stout farmer, but were now too patched and tattered for a beggar. Heaven knows ho... ...est, and legs, and tail, all of the demdest beauty. I will ride him in the park before the very chariots of the rejected countesses. The demd old dowa... ...givings and apprehensions which he could not overcome. He passed into Hyde Park, now silent and deserted, and increased his rate of walking as if in t... ...e was weary , but was not one bit the wiser; and indeed he came out of the Park at last a great deal more confused and perplexed than when he went in.... ...e, with six grown-up and most lovely daughters, and the finest park in the county.’ ‘My dear mother,’ reasoned Nicholas, ‘do you suppose that the unfo...

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...R 1 INTRODUCES ALL THE REST THERE ONCE LIVED, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, tak... ...d. With a portion of this property Mr Godfrey Nickleby pur- chased a small farm, near Dawlish in Devonshire, whither he retired with his wife and two ... ...nd pounds in cash, and to his youngest son, Nicholas, one thousand and the farm, which was as small a landed estate as one would desire to see. These ... ...s, originally made for tops, which might have been once worn by some stout farmer, but were now too patched and tattered for a beggar. Heaven knows ho... ...est, and legs, and tail, all of the demdest beauty. I will ride him in the park before the very chariots of the rejected countesses. The demd old dowa...

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...OUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the matc...

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...96 XXVIII 204 XXIX 211 XXX 218 XXXI 224 III 232 XXXII 234 XXXIII 245 Mansfield Park iii XXXIV 251 XXXV 260 XXXVI 268 XXXVII 275 XXXVIII 282 XXXIX 292 ... ...housand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the ran... ...s, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a barone... ... they had all done for her, she seemed to be wanting to do more: and Mansfield Park 5 at length she could not but own it to be her wish, that poor Mrs... ...good and agreeable. It was a connection exactly of the right sort; in the same county, and the same interest; and his most hearty concurrence was conv... ... since the Crawfords’ arrival. He had been visiting a friend in a neighbouring county, and that friend having recently had his grounds laid out by an ... ...London — but this morning we heard of it in the right way. It was seen by some farmer, and he told the miller, and the miller told the butcher, and th... ...ne directly; and as I cannot look out of my dressing closet without seeing one farm yard, nor walk in the shrubbery without passing another, I thought... ...he most unreasonable, most impossible thing in the world, had offended all the farmers, all the labourers, all the hay in the parish. As for Dr. Grant...

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...Republic (=Rt?pdliquce Frawaise), United Kingdom, Northwest Territory, Cook County, Evanston Township, Kansas City (New York City-exception); (2) D... ... gium, [kingdom of God, or of heaven], duchy of Anhalt, state of Illinois, county of Cook, city of Chicago. 5. Numbered political divisions : Elev... ...ional District, First Ward, Second Precinct. 6. The names of thoroughfares, parks, squares, blocks, buildings, etc. : Malzzlal of Style: Capitaliz... ...z 5 Drexel Avenue, Ringstrasse, Via Appia, Chicago Drainage Canal; Lincoln Park; Trafalgar Square; Monadnock Block; Lakeside Building, Capitol, Whi... ...Trafalgar Square; Monadnock Block; Lakeside Building, Capitol, White House, County Hospital, Boston Public Library, New York Post-Office, British M... ...ciated Charities; Smith- sonian Institution, State University of Iowa, Hyde Park High School; the Commercial Academy (Handelsakademie) of Leipzig, ... ...cows, seventy-six sheep, and a billy goat constituted the live stock of the farm;" "He spent a total of two years, three months, and seventeen days... ...ostrophe and s (see 103) : a man's, horses' tails; Scott's Ivanhoe, Jones's farm, Themis- tocles' era; for appearance' sake. 149. The plural of num...

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...own. Within two years the local demand for the seed far exceeded the supply. The farmers were mostly illiterate, but they could easily observe the... ...ted States a rat poison that killed rats in their holes diffused very slowly among farmers because its results were not visible (pp. 22, 23). 1... ...or balanced reciprocity in the giving and receiving of goods and services, as when farmers lend a helping hand to one another at harvest time. ... ...a and Radio Liberty broadcasts, for example. Recently, en route to the university parking lot, a student remarked to the author that all advertisin... ...ffectiveness, for example, antismoking publicity vs. cigarette promotion. (In the parking lot chat cited earlier, the student's perception would, a... ...ing can often justify selling at a higher price and vice versa.) For example, “The parking 'problem' may be interpreted as an implicit decision to k... ... authoritative by hospital administrator and doctor, as well as patient. Again, a county agricultural agent is an official adviser to farmers but h... ...e Program." Paper presented to the Employment and Training Administration, Passaic County, New Jersey. -----. 1979b. " A Broadened Typology of Excha...

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...hat I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming, 149 -- Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors, 160 -- Winter Animals, 169 -- The Pond in Winter, 176 -- Spring, 186 -- Conclusion, 199...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Baker Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 ... ...g up. I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easil... ...k valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about. One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it fur ... ...ldings; but there are very few halls for free worship or free speech in this county. It should not be by their architecture, but why not even by their... ...d. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. Old Cato, whose “De Re Rusticˆ a” is my “Cultivator,” says, ... ... to find him? Does Mr. Grinnell know where he himself is? Be rather the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clarke and Frobisher, of your own streams and oceans;...

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................................................... 23 CHAPTER IV. SKIMPING’S FARM ......................................................................... ... a Canadian gentleman, when about ten miles from Montreal they halted at a farm with a good well-built house, named Sault St. Pierre, all looking pros... ...amed Sault St. Pierre, all looking prosperous and comfortable, and a young farmer, American in his ways—free-spoken, famil- iar, and blunt—but very ki... ...t he was told, but in an uninterested sort of way, just as if politics and county business, and work at the estate, were just as much tasks thrust on ... ...then try to go on the same as usual; and would wander about the garden and park with her dogs, and bring us in little anecdotes, and do all the laughi... ...e lay on the slope of the hill, in the parish of T revorsham, but with the park lying between it and the main village. The ground sloped sharply down ... ...ell in the salt marshes, and twice following showed up the prize ox at the county show, that they began to believe in “Farmer T orwood,” or think his ... ... farm for occupation, and no society but our- selves; no newspaper but the County Chronicle once a week; no new books, for Mudie did not exist then, e... ...tances, took to Mrs. Cradock with eager enthusiasm, and tripped across the park to her two or three times a week, and became delightedly interested in...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1; THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner, as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a singl...

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... settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, the... ... the particulars of the house and garden, to come with her daughters to Barton Park, the place of his own residence, from whence she might judge, hers... ... inquiry. Her resolution was formed as she read. The situation of Barton, in a county so far distant from Sussex as Devonshire, which, but a few hours... ...wood, she preferred going directly to the cottage to being a visitor at Barton Park; and she relied so undoubtingly on Sir John’s description of the h... ...night. “A fortnight!” she repeated, surprised at his being so long in the same county with Elinor without seeing her before. He looked rather distress... ...and the valley looks comfortable and snug — with rich meadows and several neat farm houses scattered here and there. It exactly answers my idea of a fi... ...ond of nettles, or thistles, or heath blossoms. I have more pleasure in a snug farm house than a watch tower — and a troop of tidy, happy villagers p... ...stop to her entreaties. She thought it probable that as they lived in the same county, Mrs. Palmer might be able to give some more particular account ... ...in. And then I have made a little purchase within this half year; East Kingham Farm, you must remember the place, where old Gibson used to live. The l...

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...e, and the chamber of the English kings. This most ancient city is the the county of Middlesex, the fruitfullest and wholesomest soil in England. It i... ... its banks are every- where beautified with fine country seats, woods, and farms; below is the royal palace of Greenwich; above, that of Rich- mond; a... ...lace is truly royal, enclosed on one side by the Thames, on the other by a park, which connects it with St. James’s, another royal palace. *Sir Giles ... ...re all put into motion by winding up the machine. At the entrance into the park from Whitehall is this in- scription:— The fisherman who has been woun... ...The delight of mortals; The security of those that belong to her!* In this park is great plenty of deer. In a garden joining to this palace there is a... ...s in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn. The farmers here do not bind up their corn in sheaves, as they do with us, but ... ... sugar in their drink; their beds are covered with tapestry, even those of farmers; they are often molested with the scurvy, said to have first crept ...

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...numerous when the fifth head of the race was the hope of 8 The Egoist his county. A Patterne was in the Marines. The country and the chief of this fa... ...he was to hit the mark that rang the bell; and away her word went over the county: and had she been an unchari- table woman she could have ruled the c... ...d of caricature, so sharp was her touch. A grain of malice would have sent county faces and characters awry into the currency. She was wealthy and kin... ... from India, tenant of one of Sir Willoughby’s cottages bordering Patterne Park. His girl was portionless and a poetess. Her writing of the song in 1... ...mance, when Sir Willoughby met her on a Sunday morning, as she crossed his park solitarily to church. They were within ten days of the appointed cerem... ...o of where she sat; he craved her hand on his arm to lead her forth by the park entrance to the church, all the while bending to her, discoursing rapi... ...a gentleman had taken him up on the road in a gig, and had driven him to a farm to show him strings of birds’ eggs and stuffed birds of every English ... ...gs, like moths; all very circumstantial. Still, in spite of his tea at the farm, and ride back by rail at the gentleman’s expense, the tale seemed fic... ...tion.” “I am glad. Do you know, I love those ancient French cha- teaux and farms in one, where salon windows look on poul- try-yard and stalls. I like...