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|Pseudogobiopsis lumbantobing
Larson, Hadiaty & Hubert, 2017
A new species of Pseudogobiopsis is described, solving the identity of a goby from Java in a Kuhl and van Hasselt painting from Java. The species reached the European aquarium trade since at least 2001 but its identity had remained unknown due to lack of preserved, scientific specimens. Recent collections in Sumatra and Java included specimens of this new goby, which resembles P. oligactis. A revised key to the species of the genus is provided.
Key words. Gobiidae, Gobionellinae, Pseudogobiopsis, new species
Pseudogobiopsis lumbantobing n. sp.
Diagnosis. A moderately slender Pseudogobiopsis with second dorsal-fin rays always I,6; anal-fin rays always I,6; pectoral-fin rays 17–18; longitudinal scales 21–24; TRB 6–8; predorsal scales 5–6, large, reaching up to close behind eyes; jaws enlarged in male; three preopercular pores present, posterior portion of oculoscapular canal present, but no canal or pores over opercle; most scales on body ctenoid; first spine of dorsal fin longest in both sexes, greatly elongate in males; five elongate dark blotches along midside of body, with five indistinct dusky short saddles crossing dorsum, black spot behind anus and four internal black blotches along midventral line, commencing at anal fin origin, black spot on upper part of pectoral fin base and chin with blackish mental frenum.
Distribution. Known only from freshwater drainages of western Sumatra and western Java, Indonesia. Some specimens in the aquarium trade are said to be imported from Myanmar (Fig. 3), but this is yet to be confirmed.
Ecology. Freshwater, found in rivers and streams at altitudes of 5–22 m, with a substratum of sand, gravel, rock and boulders; algae and aquatic macrophytes may be present (Figs. 8, 9).
Etymology. This species is named for Daniel Lumbantobing of Jakarta, who collected the first specimens and showed them to HKL in 2012, which solved the mystery of the orange-spotted goby of which aquarists had been sending her photos. Daniel is an ichthyologist who specialises in freshwater fishes. Name used as a name in apposition.
Helen K. Larson, Renny K. Hadiaty and Nicolas Hubert. 2017. A New Species of the Gobiid Fish Genus Pseudogobiopsis (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobionellinae) from Indonesia.


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What: Metamorphosis, by Randy McIntosh, a performance that joins three local arts organizations -- Kutandara Marimba Experience, Boulder Chorale and Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance -- to raise awareness about teen suicide and depression
Where: The Dairy Center for the Arts Performance Space, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
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Stage one: The egg
"Save me, oh God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me."
-- Psalm 69
Jesse Simon is dead. He was only 16. He took his own life.
These words. This can't be how it ends.
Randy McIntosh stands in Jesse's Boulder home in a state so far beyond shock and sadness. For three days, McIntosh barely leaves Jesse's parents' side.
Watching a mother and father mourn the loss of their child is the most horrifying experience he's ever been through, McIntosh says. Two and a half years later, the tears will still find a way out.
He remembers Jesse.
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Stage two:
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"Arise, oh God. Defend your cause." -- Psalm 74
McIntosh cannot believe what happens next. The flowers, the casseroles, the hugs, the love -- it feels as if everyone left on earth is walking through those doors, "to be here for them and help them pick up the pieces and figure out how to carry on through the tragedy," he says.
He has never felt more inspired.
That idea inside him grows legs. It begins to crawl. Slowly.
He's going to write a score. Something completely new, like nothing ever created before.
To remember Jesse, the performance will center on marimba music. A complete, traditional African marimba ensemble.
To commemorate the way the community has pulled together, the event will be a collaboration of different arts organizations: more than 25 singers from the Boulder Chorale, the Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance company and electronica music -- interspersed with spoken-word clips and Jewish healing prayers. The Psalms.
To raise awareness about teen suicide and depression, the main performers will be teens.
The vision begins to take shape.
A friend who speaks the Shona language of Zimbabwe suggests McIntosh call the performance shanduko.
He decides to organize it around the four phases of a butterfly's life cycle. And one step beyond.
"What lies beyond the life cycle?" McIntosh asks.
Stage three:
The chrysalis
"I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord." -- Psalm 118
The rabbi tells Jesse's parents to picture their child as a kite soaring into the sky.
"You can fly this kite via an imaginary string, as you remain firmly planted here on earth. Through this connection, you may be able to feel Jesse's pull on the string, as you gently guide him on his path. However, little by little, you need to let out the string. Jesse's spirit must be allowed to progress higher and higher into the heavens."
David Simon, Jesse's father, writes down these words, which will later become a book-in-progress.
The metaphor resonates with Simon. He finds himself closing his eyes and holding his hand up, clutching the imaginary string.
Andi Jason, Jesse's mom, is not yet ready to let the kite fly, she says.
"People don't realize the power they have to heal other people," she says. "And until something happens to you, some terrible thing happens to you, and people are there for you in such a significant way, you don't realize that community coming together is healing."
That includes talking about things such as sadness, depression, suicidal thoughts, Simon says.
"One manifestation of that power is being tuned into the people around you and not being afraid of getting into a difficult discussion," he says.
Stage four:
The butterfly
A Song of Ascents: "May they be secure who love you. Peace be within your walls and security within your towers." -- Psalm 112
McIntosh buys Jesse's parents a colorful kite. It's shaped like a butterfly.
The last thing they want to do is fly a kite. It's November 2010 and freezing. Not a breath of wind. Simon hangs it in a corner of the living room. The light streaming behind it makes it glow.
Simon scoffs, "If Jesse wants us to fly a kite, he's going to have to bring the wind."
Simon wakes up early the next morning to write his son's obituary. He glances out the window and gasps. The wind is howling. Tears burst from his eyes and he shakes his wife awake.
"We have to go fly the kite."
They stand in the field near the elementary school Jesse attended. The wind gently lifts the butterfly about 100 feet in the air. And, as quickly as it came, the wind suddenly stops.
The next day, Simon awakes to nothing short of a windstorm. He drags his wife out of bed again. As the sky snatches up the kite, the flurry jerks so hard it nearly snaps the string. It stretches the butterfly to the farthest end of the line, but then throws it back toward the ground.
Andi Jason runs below the kite with her arms outstretched -- to catch it in case it comes crashing down.
"If the string breaks," Simon tells his wife, "that's what's meant to happen. And we have to let it be."
Stage five:
The kite spirit
Andi Jason sits in the audience of the tech rehearsal for "Metamorphosis." It's the fifth movement.
"It's a very metaphorical piece, so you see what you want to see in it," she says. "For me, I saw Jesse's spirit ascending to heaven. And that heaven was this beautiful and loving place. And then I thought of all of the people who have lost children -- however they have lost them -- or lost anyone really, and what a gift it is to feel they are in a beautiful, loving place."
Jesse's father is playing in the marimba ensemble.
Creating music that was written in memory of his son is Simon's second chance to share his child with the world. It's Jesse's transformation, his new incarnation: as a song. As aerial dancers floating above the musicians and singers, as the hymns sung in Hebrew, as the lights and the programs and the inspiration behind the performance.
And in that, Andi Jason says, there is joy. She feels tears streaming down her cheeks. This is hard, she says, but in a good way.
The wheels of "Metamorphosis" were set in motion by Jesse's death, Simon says, but "this is not just our story. This is a universal story."
The cycle of life.
The night before "Metamorphosis" opens, Simon dreams about his son -- the first time Jesse has entered his dreams since the week after his death.
In his dreams, father and son hug.
Simon has transformed, too.
"It's the change in the texture of my grief," he says. "The change in my life journey."


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Decision time is at hand for the multiple expansion and renovation projects Ellis County commissioners wish to pursue. By the time polls close Tuesday for the special election to raise $14.3 million with a half-cent sales tax, elected officials will know whether or not local residents support the plan.
There appears little doubt much of what has been identified is needed -- and not merely a wish list drawn up by multiple space needs committees over the years. Included for voters' consideration is constructing a new EMS/rural fire building as well as expanding and renovating the county jail, Law Enforcement Center and the courthouse. The 0.5-percent sales tax would be in place for five years, or shorter if revenues generated allow the project to be completed before then.
This marks the third time in 11 years the county has approached voters with some of the same items. The previous two elections were landslide defeats. Commissioners are cautiously optimistic the third time will be the charm. They at least don't have competing city projects on the same ballot as they did in the past.
The road to Tuesday's special election wasn't without its own speedbumps. The date itself changed, as did whether to have one or two questions on the ballot. The commission opted for a single question. Even earlier was the question of including the renovations at 601 Main and 718 Main, which eventually were pulled out of the mix.
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The current 30-inmate capacity is woefully inadequate, as the average daily population is almost double that number. Housing the overflow inmates in neighboring jails cost the county almost $164,000 last year, a figure that doesn't include salaries or travel costs. Increasing the jail's capacity to 84 also would remove the ever-present threat of lawsuits for having overcrowded conditions.
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The courthouse is an entirely different proposition. Much has been made about the inherent dangers of having the public comingling with the jail population. As it's not unusual to walk past an orange jumpsuit-clad inmate on the way to the clerk's office, that concern is real.
However, it will disappear as soon as the administrative offices are moved to the Commerce Bank building the county already purchased. Design plans have a second-floor walkway as well as a new entryways being built. Once the courthouse building is being used solely by law enforcement and the courts, it strikes us that such items would not be necessary. And, in fact, some of the vacated offices might be repurposed for at least some of the space needed for the LEC.
As for the EMS/rural fire building, this should be a no-brainer. Call volume has increased 7 percent to 8 percent annually for the past 20 years. The number of public safety personnel needed 24/7 to service the entire county likewise has skyrocketed.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Muslims have begun fasting for the start of the Ramadan holy month in Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere around Asia, but the somber occasion was marred in Buddhist-dominated Thailand by two bomb blasts that killed one person and injured seven.
The Muhammadiyah group, Indonesia's second-largest Muslim organization, told its 30 million followers that Ramadan starts Friday. The government, however, declared the official start as Saturday, when most of the remaining 190 million Indonesians began the dawn-to-dusk fast.
Muslims in Thailand also began Ramadan on Friday, while Malaysians began Saturday. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were to start Saturday or Sunday.
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The start of Ramadan is often quiet in Malaysia, with excitement peaking in the final week, when people buy new clothes, food and other supplies to celebrate the end of the holy month.
Many hotels in Kuala Lumpur have begun advertising promotional dinners featuring roast lamb, savory curries and sumptuous cakes for more affluent Muslims to break their fast, while in numerous neighborhoods, entrepreneurs will set up evening stalls for customers to purchase cooked rice, meat and vegetables to bring home for their families.
Homemaker Karina Hassan said this Ramadan might be significant for her family because her 8-year-old daughter could try fasting for the first time. "She might try to fast for half a day at first," Karina said. "She's always hungry 24 hours a day, so fasting could be tough for her."
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak urged his country's Muslims to set aside their political differences during Ramadan and foster unity among believers. Political rhetoric and mudslinging has intensified in Malaysia over the past year ahead of national elections that must be held before mid-2013.
In Brunei, an air force helicopter crashed late Friday, killing at least 10 people, mostly military cadets being flown home after training. The sultanate's Borneo Bulletin newspaper called it "a national tragedy" that struck a day before the country's Muslim majority marked the start of Ramadan.
Ramadan's start varies because Muslim countries and groups use different ways of calculating when the new moon crescent is sighted.
Muhammadiyah, which uses calendar-based astronomical calculations, believed that the crescent should have appeared after sunset on Thursday. But the government argued it could not be seen by eyes or telescopes, hence Ramadan has to start Saturday.
Pakistan's government has promised there will not be any power blackouts during the key hours when people are preparing for their fast or during the evening when they pray and break their fasts.
"If there is electricity or no electricity, people do fast, and they fast with patience," said Shah Mohammed, who sells nuts in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. "Allah gives you patience."
In Bangladesh too, Ramadan is likely to start Saturday. However, a national moon sighting committee headed by state minister for religious affairs was to sit Friday evening to make an official declaration.
Parts of India, where about 13 percent of the 1.2 billion people are Muslim, started Saturday, including New Delhi and the Indian portion of Kashmir.
The largest Muslim rebel group in the predominantly Catholic Philippines said fasting there would begin Saturday.
A cease-fire has curtailed fighting and fostered peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in recent years. Rebel spokesman Von Al Haq said the guerrillas would observe Ramadan but still defend themselves if attacked.
The Philippine military traditionally orders troops to refrain from offensives that could disrupt Ramadan in the southern regions where minority Muslims live. Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda released a statement expressing solidarity with and goodwill toward Filipino Muslims in the holy month.
Associated Press writers Sean Yoong in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Thanyarat Doksone in Bangkok; Muneeza Naqvi in New Delhi; Rebecca Santana in Islamabad, Pakistan; Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines; and Farid Hossain in Dhaka, Bangladesh, contributed to this report.
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PASS SQLRally–Thoughts from an Organizer
There have been lots of blog posts about PASS SQLRally (Bing Search), but there haven't been a lot recently from the organizers. As today (April 12th) is the last day for the discounted $299 price I thought it would be good to talk about why I think… Read more
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 12 April 2011
SqlSaturday #71–Boston Recap: An Upscale Saturday
I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at SQLSaturday #71 – Boston on April 2nd. Adam Machanic (Blog|Twitter), Mike Walsh (Blog|Twitter), Tom LaRock (Blog|Twitter), Grant Fritchey (Blog|Twitter) and crew did a great job… Read more
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 4 April 2011
Come on Out to OPASS
Tonight is the March OPASS meeting. You should come on out, it's always a great time. Note our new location and be sure to RSVP so we can have food for you. Don't forget to bring your resume as Signature Consultants, LLC will be there as out local sponsor.
Here's… Read more
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 8 March 2011
Upcoming Engagements
I haven't been blogging lately because I've been busy tweaking my resume, working on PASS SQLRally, serving at church, and spending time with my family. Things aren't going to be slowing down anytime soon, but I wanted to let those who do read this blog know that I'm… Read more
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 7 March 2011
February OPASS Meeting
Don't forget to join us tonight for the OPASS meeting sponsored by RedGate and Signature Consultants.
|Event Date/Time:
|Tuesday February 8th @ 6:00 PM
|Hampton Inn
850 Village Oak Lane
Lake Mary
|Bing Map to Event Location
|Speaker Bio:
|Brian Knight
Brian Knight, SQL Server MVP,…
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 8 February 2011
SQLSaturday #62–Tampa Recap
I had the privilege of attending and speaking at SQLSaturday #62 – Tampa the weekend of January 15th and this is my belated recap post of what I did for the weekend.
I headed to Tampa from Sanford on Thursday afternoon as I was attending Denny Cherry's (Twitter)… Read more
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 7 February 2011
January OPASS Meeting Recap
On January 20th OPASS was pleased to have had Kevin Kline (Blog|Twitter) from our sponsor, Quest, present 10 Things Every Developer should know. This was the first regular OPASS meeting to take place at the Hampton Inn in Lake Mary instead of the SQLShare offices… Read more
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 4 February 2011
Time's Makin' Changes
Some History
Almost exactly 6 years I ago my wife and I decided to apply to be missionaries with New Tribes Mission. We decided at that time to pursue what NTM calls Associate missionaries which allowed us to serve with NTM for 1-4 years. In May of 2005 our… Read more
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 3 February 2011
PASS SQLRally Professional Development Vote Done and the Development Track Vote is open
Congratulations to the winners in the Professional Development Track Vote for PASS SQLRally. You can see the winners at http://www.sqlpass.org/sqlrally/2011/Agenda/Sessions/SessionsProfessionalDevelopment.aspx.
Now the voting is open for the Database & Application Development Track. The various links you need are:
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 18 January 2011
January OPASS Meeting
January's OPASS meeting will be held this Thursday, January 20th at 6pm. We will be meeting at the Hampton Inn, 850 Village Oak Lane, Lake Mary.
SQL Server MVP and author Kevin Kline (Blog|Twitter) will be speaking on Ten Things Every Developer Should Know.
We'll have… Read more
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 18 January 2011
Speaking at SQLSaturday #62–Tampa
I'll be speaking at SQLSaturday #62 – Tampa this Saturday, January 15th. I'll be presenting:
Why I Use Stored Procedures
With the proliferation of ORM tools like Entity Framework, nHibernate, and Linq to SQL, many projects have decided that stored procedures are not needed and slow down development. While these…
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 10 January 2011
Fun with a String
I recently had a friend contact me recently to ask for some help with TSQL. The basic issue is that he had 2 tables. Table 1 has numeric key values which are contained within a character column in Table 2 which is also in another database on the same server. … Read more
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Posted in Wise Man or Wise Guy on 6 January 2011


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Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America
Page 62
Six or eight weeks had passed away since the Garrick landed her passengers on the quay of New York. Of the hundreds who had crossed the great sea within her "wooden walls" very few remained together. Scattered abroad over the face of the country they were lost sight of amid the surging waves of the population. Mrs. Walters was spending the winter with a friend in New York, whose house was located in the then fashionable Seventh Ward, somewhere about Madison street. The captain was, of course, gone back with the Garrick, and Bessy's duties, light in themselves, were made lighter still by the gentleness and goodness of her mistress. The lady of the house was a widow in good circumstances, with a large family, and there were three girls to do the work besides Betsy. There was also a colored man-servant who acted in the capacity of coachman, a groom was wholly unnecessary, as Mrs. Hibbard's horses boarded out, and her carriage, too, was kept at the Livery Stable. Altogether, it seemed a pleasant house to live in, and Bessy fancied she was going to find herself very comfortable and very much at home. Her comrade-girls, as she called them, welcomed her kindly, and cheered her heart with the assurance that they were all Irish and ever so glad to see her.
Only a few blocks from where Bessy lived, a little way up in Catherine street, there was a small shoe store kept by one Michael Dooley, who had some five or six hands constantly at work in a little room behind the store. Amongst these mightbe seen our friend, Paul Brannigan, plying the awl from morn till night, and after night, too, for it was the dull dark month of November. But Paul never tired of his work, and many a night he remained at it after hours when most of the others had gone home. What was the thought that made Paul's work so light to him, and kept him cheerful and contented and full of fun, as he sat hour after hour in that dark little shop? It vvas the thought that his labor was keeping the life in old Dolly Sheehan, and providing a shelter for her helpless ago. They had a little room to themselves in a tenement-house in Oliver street hard by, and the old woman was doing her best to keep Paul from feeling the want of a younger and more active housekeeper. Ever since she recovered from the first dreadful shock she seemed to attach herself wholly to Paul as the only person who had known Philip, and could speak to her of him. It was strange, however, that she never inquired as to the particulars of his death. She would talk of him for hours if Paul could only listen, retracing every circumstance connected with his early days, and dwellin g with a mother's fondness on all his good qualities Then she would ask Paul to tell her how Philip looked, what clothes he used to wear, and all Puch minute particulars concerning him, that the hunchback was sometimes puzzled how to answer her Yet with all this, she never once put a question relating to his death. She saw that Paul avoided that part of the subject, and so did she, too, so that by a sort of tacit agreement, it was never alluded to in any way. This was a great relief to Paul's mind, for he had an idea that if the old woman knew how her son died it would certainly be the death of her. Many a time he said within himself "Now, in case she did question me about it, and wouldn't be satisfled unless I told her, how on earth could I bring myself to do it? how could I tell her that her one son, the pulse of her heart, perished in the flames when the boat he was waiter in was burned on the Big Lakes. Now, Paul Brannigan, do you think you could tell her that? No,
indeed, nor the deuce a word of it. It's bad enough as it is, but that 'id be worse than all. Well! at any rate if she did come too hard on me, I'd get Father Daly to tell her, an' she'd take it better from him than from me or anybody else."
Father Daly was staying for the present at the house of a college friend who was pastor of one of the city churches. When he presented himself to the bishop immediately after his arrival, the prelate was much prepossessed in his favor and promised to place him in the first vacancy that offered. lie took a lively interest in the affairs of the acquaintances he had made on board the Garrick, but the dwarf and old Dolly were the special objects of his charitable solicitude. The heroic devotion with which Paul attached himself to the lone old woman whom he had, as it were, adopted as a mother, could not fail to inspire so good a priest with sentiments of respect for the lithe man. Accordingly he did hold him in high esteem, and took pleasure in drawing him out of the crusty shell of reserve which often grows over such natures under the keen sense of deformity.
Peery Murphy and his two sons after sundry disappointments and delays were at length all employed in one way or another, and Mary had got a situation as housemaid in a respectable family somewhere in Houston street. Mary's looks were much in her favor, and there was a certain air of smartness about her and also of neatness that made her a very promising servant. And the little damsel seemed fully aware of her personal advantages, judging by the self-sufflcient smile that was generally seen on her pretty face. There was only another girl in the house where Mary lived, a staid elderly person who acted as cook and laundress. She was an American by birth and also by parentage, as she often boasted, and a Protestant, moreover, yet a very good girl in her way and dir posed to do her duty as far as she knew it. Rebecca, or Becky as she was generally called, took quite an interest in tho young Irish girl "just come out," and seeing that she was
naturally smart and intelligent, had great hopes of her doing well
Ally Murphy -- we beg her pardon -- Mistress Finigan, was as yet staying with her mother, until such time as Ned could see his way before him and decide on what he was going to do. Ned was well disposed to take the world easy, and would rather live on his money awhile waiting for "something to turn up, ' than go seek employment where he might possibly have harder work than he cared to undertake. He had already hunted up a number of people from his own place, and it was his pleasure to saunter around from one house to another asking advice from this one and that one regarding the best way to invest his money. Amongst other places, he frequented Paul Brannigan's room, and often dropped in of an evening "to have a chat."
One evening about the middle of November he mounted as usual the three pairs of stairs leading to Paul's habitation, and nodding pleasantly to Paul and the old woman took his accus tomed seat near the stove, and stretching his legs to their full-length and thrusting his hands to the very bottom of his breeches pockets, turned to Paul who had laid down on his entrance a well-worn copy of Cobbett's Reformation.
"Well, Paul !" said Ned in his cheerful way," I b'lieve I'll be makin' a start one of these days."
"How is that?"
"Well ! I'm goin' to commence business."
"Ay! and what business!"
"I was thinkin' of the liquor business. They tell me there's nothing like it here for makin' money, if a man has only enough to start it."
"An' have you enough to start it?"
"Why, it doesn't take much to do that, by all accounts," said Ned with an easy contented laugh. " If you have only a matter of twenty dollars or so you can go to a Mr. McRory that's in great business here -- a fine Irishman they sav he is -- and jist tell him what you want and pay him as far as your money goes, an' my dear ! he'll set you up in elegant style, an' send you in kegs of all kinds of liquor; then you get some empty ones to fill up the shelves, and there you have a beautiful liquor store. Now, isn't that the greatest thing ever you heard, Paul? I'm sure you'd be a long day in Ireland before you'd find a man to do that much for you!"
"I'd be a long day anywhere," said Paul curtly, " for the reason that I wouldn't trouble any man to do it."
"You wouldn't? and why so?"
"Because it's a business I'd have nothing to do with. I'd rather and break stones."
Ned laughed good-humoredly. "Ha! ha! ha! I'm thinkin' it isn't much stones you'd break. Howsomever, I'd like to know what you have to say again the liquor business, Paul! You can't deny but what it's an easy business, an' a moneymakin' business, too -- eh, Paul?"
"Well ! I suppose it's what you say it is, Ned, but still it's a bad way of makin' a living an' the money that's made at it never wears well or does much good to them that has it."
"Ho! ho! ho! d'ye hear that, Mrs. Sheehan? Doesn't this man beat the world for gab! What do you think of it, ma'am!"
"Wisha, then, Mister Finigan," said old Dolly who sat on a low bench by the stove knitting a stocking, "wishy then, dear knows it's a business I have neither love nor likin' for. I can't put words on it like Paul there, but to tell you the truth, I'd rather see you at anything else. That I mayn't sin but I would. "
Ned still tried to laugh it off, but Paul straightened up his poor back as well as he could and laid his hand on the big man's knee and looked him in the face. "You don't heed what we say to you, Ned,'" he asked very earnestly.
"Well! it doesn't signify what any one says," answered Ned carelessly, "for Ally and me have made up our minds about it an' the store is taken, an' I was down this mornin' with Mister McRory, God bless him! an' he's goin' to send up the stock tomorrow or next day," and Ned raised his head still higher on the strength of the stock that was to be his, and looked exultingly from one to the other.
"If thats the case," said Paul, "I may as well hold my tongue, but still as you asked my opinion at the start, I'll give it to you now I told you before that money made by sellin' liquor never wears well and sure that's no wonder, anyhow. "
"An' why wouldn't it wear well?" demanded Ned, a little ruffled or so at Paul's utter indifference to his new-blown honors, " why wouldn't it wear as well as any other?"
"Because there's a curse on it. "
"A curse! what curse?" said Ned starting to his feet. "The curse of sin," returned the dwarf also rising, and looking up into Ned's face with the energy that marked his character; " what's the cause of the misery and the wickedness we see around us? Isn't it drunkenness, Ned, an' nothing else? When you see a naked, starved-lookin' creature of a man comin' in to take his glass, don't you know very well that the money he throws down on your counter has the curse of a heart-broken wife on it, an' that a whole family may be shiverin' with cold an' perishin' with hunger while that beast of a man is gettin' drunk on your stock, as you call itq Ah! that's the stock that brings down the wrath of God on them that sell it an' them that buy it now, Ned, you're a Godfearin' man -- I know that myself -- an' so is your wife, too -- "
"Another God-fearin' man," said Ned with a forced laugh.
"No matter, you know what I mean -- well! I'm sure you'll not be long at the business till you find out that poor Paul Brannigan wasn't so far wrong after all. There's neither of you but 'ill find it hard work to be humorin' drunken men, an' waitin' on them at all hours, an' listenin' o their oaths and curses an' bad discourse of every kind."
Old Dolly had dropped her knitting and sat with mouth and eyes open listening
(67) entranced to Paul's seething words. Ever and anon she nodded her head at Ned, as much as to say "That's the man for you!"
Ned himself was more deeply impressed by the dwarf's harangue than he chose to acknowledge, but he saw no use in giving in, as he said to himself, so he still tried to make a laughing matter of it.
"I wish to the Lord somebody had made a counsellor of you, Paul," he said with well-feigned good humor; "only for the hump you'd have made a tarnatiou fine priest, but if you had got learnin' for a counsellor now, I'm thinkin' Dan himself couldn't hould a candle to you. But I was forgettin' entirely what brought me here. Did you see or hear anything of Herbert since he eame to New York!"
"Not much, he was into the store where I was once or twice, and the last time he said he was goin' to Boston to an uncle of his that's very rich there."
"How long is that ago?"
"Well ! it's about a month or five weeks."
"Humph! I'm thinkin' he hasn't left New York -- if he's a livin' man I seen him last night."
"You don't say so, Ned?"
"But I do! Ally an' her nuother an' myself were comin' along down the Bowery from Houston street where we were up seein' Mary, an' just as we got to the corner of Prince street (I think it was), who should step out to us but Herbert, awnd he passed me as close as what you are now."
"Had he any one with him?"
"Oh then, indeed he had a flne tall gentleman dressed like the lord of the land, an', my dears ! you'd think the two were hand an' glove together, for they were talkin' like fifty, an' so much taken up with their own discoorse that Herbert never noticed one of us, though I don't know how he could miss seein' us."
" What kind of a place did he come out of!"
"Well! the sorra one of me knows -- there was nothing here that I could see but tables and chairs and them big screens theyhave in public houses here. "
"Bumph! a saloon, I suppose," said Paul thoughtfully. "Well! well! let him go, as long as he keeps out of our way, let him ' follow his old vagary still.' You don't think he had found Bessy out -- do you!"
"Well! indeed, that's more than I can tell you, for Bessy and I are not the best of friends, and I don't go nest or near her. "
Paul said no more on the subject, and Ned soon after went away, tramp, tramp, down the three pairs of stairs, whistling "The Dusty Miller." That same evening Bessy Conway was called to the halldoor to see a gentleman.
"A gentleman! my goodness! what gentleman wants to see me!" As Bessy left the room flurried and excited she caught Mrs. Walters' significant glance, and scarce knowing what she did she turned back.
"I'm sure it's him, Mrs. Walters! I'm sure it is. What in the world will I do!"
"I will tell you that," said her mistress who really pitied her distress; "if you wish to put an end to all this, suffer me to go in your stead. I will dismiss him sooner than you could."
"Oh! ma'am dear, if you'll only do that !" cried Best clasping her hands, "it'll be the best thing you ever done for me!"
Down stairs tripped Mrs. Walters, and in the hall she found Henry Herbert looking as dark as possible
"Mr. Herbert," said the lady, after returning his haughty bow, "was it my servant you wished to see�if so, you should have applied at the basement door."
"Madam!" said Herbert with an angry flush on his cheek, "I am not accustomed to apply at basement doors "
"That may be, sir, but if you have business with any of the
servants it is there you must see them, not here. But now that you are here, Mr. Herbert, allow me to ask what your business is with Bessy! You will pardon the liberty I take, but as I have mainly induced the girl to leave her parents, I consider myself bound to supply their place in her regard. "
"Oh! of course, of course!" said Herbert, with some embarrassment, "that is understood, but still I can hardly recognize your right to question me. I do not intend to run away with Bessy -- is that a satisfactory answers"
"No, Mr. Herbert!" replied Mrs Walters very gravely, "it is not satisfactory, and I wish you to understand that Bessy Conway, being under my protection, must not be exposed to uncharitable remarks. You know what I mean!"
"I do perfectly, madam, but I wish you in return to understand that I am free to go where I please and visit as I please."
"I am then reduced to the necessity of forbidding yml this house," said Mrs. Walters with more determination than one would expect from her usually gentle manner; "I shall give orders at once to that effect."
"In that case, madam," said Herbert going to the door, "I must only try to see Bessy by other means -- that is, if I desire to see her. Good evening, Mrs. Walters!"
"Mr. Herbert!" said the lady moving a step or two nearer him, "you are, then, bent on justifying all the evil things I heard said of you!"
"Evil things!" repeated Herbert with a look of surprise and alarm. "What did you hear, then?"
"Nothing in particular, but a great deal in general. For myself I hoped and do still hope better things of you, Mr. Herbert -- see that you do not deceive my expectations!"
Herbert eagerly approached her, his whole face lit up with a new feeling of satisfaction. "Did you say you had bopes of me, Mrs. Walters? That you did not, -- do not believe what you heard of me!"
"I have told you so," said Mrs. Walters much surprised by his sudden change of manner.
"Then, upon my word and honor, madam, your good opinion shall not be thrown away. It is something to know that one pure, and good, and generous as you still entertains hopes of me. Adieu, Mrs. Walters!" and taking her hand he bowed respectfully over it. "Your charity makes me think better of mankind, and it may be that you have saved me from ruin Be so good as to tell Bessy that I will not forget her, but that I will trouble her no more till -- till -- oh! I cannot say when!"
He opened the door very quickly and was gone before Mrs. Walters had recovered sufficiently from her surprise to attempt an answer. Slowly she retraced her way up stairs, thinking of what she should say to Bessy, and wondering whether Herbert would keep his word.
"Was it Mr. Herbert, Madame," said Bessy timidly, after waiting a little to see if her mistress would give the information voluntarily.
"It was, Bessy," Mrs. Walters replied, "but I trust we have seen the last of him. I gave him to understand very plainly that as you cannot receive his visits without impropriety, he cannot be allowed to continue them."
"And what did he say, ma'am!"
"Oh she said what I took for a promise that he would trouble you no more."
Mrs. Walters was much relieved when Bessy clasped her hands and fervently thanked God. "And I'm thankful to you, too, Mrs. Walters," she added with unmistakeable sincerity, her eyes full of tears, "I'm thankful for the trouble you have taken -- you don't know how glad I am!"
A little while after Bessy descended to the kitchen and was surprised to see all there in an uproar. Cook, housemaid, and nurse were talking at the top of their voice, while Wash, the colored man, sat grinning in a corner enjoying the fun.
Bessy bad no time to inquire the meaning of what she saw,for she was instantly appealed to by Sally, the housemaid, who was dressed for going out. " Now, Bessy, a'nt this too bad. Ant it?"
"I say it's mean," cried the cook much excited.
"What is it?" slipped in Bessy.
"Why, only think!" -- exclaimed Sally, with a very emphatic gesture, "here am I dressed to go out, and Mrs. Hibbard sends down word that I can't go this evening."
"And her evening out!" put in the nurse.
"And her beau coming to take her to a dance!" said cook.
"Guess Jim won't like it," said darkey maliciously; "shouldn't wonder if he took another gal for spite."
"He a'nt going to have the chance," said Sally, drawing on her light kid glove with a very determined air; "I'll go if I lose my place for it. I a'nt so green that folks can treat mo so," and she shook out the folds of her plaid silk dress as though it were a flag of defiance. "A nice thing indeed to be told that you can't go out, when you've had the trouble of dressing."
"But, dear me!" said Bessy, when she could get in a word, "why didn't you ask leave to go out before you dressed?"
"Ask leave indeed!" repeated Sally with a disdainful toss of her Plead; "I tell you it's my evening out, and if Mrs. Glibbard expects company, Ellen can do what is to be done." Ellen was silent but Bessy spoke.
"Why, how can Ellen be down stairs, Sally? don't you know Miss Lizzy is very sick, and the poor child doesn't like to be left alone?"
"Well ! it an't any matter about that, I'm going out if Jim comes!"
"I would, if I was you !" said cook. "I'd let them see that I'd have my rights!"
"Sartin!" chimed in Wash with his broad grin; "I go in for having one's rights! This is a free country!"
While Bessy was examining with curious eyes the various
(72) gew-gaws which went to make up Sally's flaunting attire, a knock came to the basement door, and the parlor bell rang at the same moment.
Wash hastening to the door ushered into the kitchen a strapping young man with a huge black moustache, who proved to be the identical Jim for whom Sally was waiting. Whilst greetings were exchanged all round, the bell rang again and great excitement followed.
"There now ! who is to answer the bell?" said cook.
"Why, Ellen, who else?" said Sally.
"Well, but, what will I say if she asks why you didn't come I" said Ellen to Sally. Before Sally could answer Mrs. Hibbard's voice was heard on the basement stairs. "Are you all asleep here, or what is the matter?" She came to the kitchen door and looked in. "Why, Ellen, I thought you were in the nursery. That poor sick child ought not to be left alone."
Ellen disappeared.
"But, Sally!" said Mrs. Hibbard, "you are not going oat, are you, after the message I sent you?"
Whatever Sally might have done at another time, she certainly would not give in before Jim. "I guess I am, Mrs. Hibbard!" she said with unblushing confidence, "it's my evening out, you know!"
"Yes, but I want you in the house!"
"I can't help that, Mrs. Hibbard! you might have told me before."
"I thought it unnecessary to tell you to stay in this evening for I thought you knew that I expected company. Ellen having the children to see to cannot wait on the door, or the company either, and Bridget has her own work to do in the kitchen."
"Well, Mrs. Hibbard ! it a'nt any use talking -- my brother has come after me and go I must. Come along, Jim! I guess mother will be most frozen waiting for us."
Jim looked at Wash and stroked down his black moustache, and Wash put his finger to his fiat nose with sly meaning.
"Very well, Sally!" said Mrs. Hibbard as she left the kitchen, "you need not return here to.night. Come tomorrow for your things, and I will pay you -- what I owe you." There was a meaning in the last words that Sally alone understood. Mrs. Hibbard did not owe her one cent. iller last month's wages hung on the back of her head in the shape of a stylish bonnet. Still she would have "the bully word."
"You needn't a told me to leave, Mrs. Hibbard," she said sailing eat of the kitchen with Jim in tow; "it a'nt hard to get a better place than yours!"
Mrs. Hibbard walked up stairs after telling Bessy that she would ask Mrs Walters to allow her to take Sally's place that evening.
"By Gosh!" said Wash, shaking his woolly head very gravely, "by Gosh! I think Sally's a knocking her head agin de wall dis time! -- hu! hu! hu!"
Bessy had been a silent and curious witness of this scene. She looked and listened like one in a dream. When the kitchen was again quiet, she said in an absent way as if following the train of her own thoughts:
"My goodness! isn't Sally the queer girl all out tow."
"What do you say that for tow demanded cook sharply."
"Why, sure no one in their senses would go on that way. What right had she to go out when her mistress wanted her in the house tow."
"What right had she to,"exclaimed Bridget placing her arms akimbo; "why, she had every right!�didn't you hear that it was her evening to go out?"
"To be sure I heard it," Bessy replied very gently, "but what of that? Couldn't she stay at home for this one evening t Maybe she'd be better off if she staid in every evening."
"That's nothing," said Bridget, " a bargain's a bargain, and
I guess I'd have told Mrs. Hibbard her own if I was in Sally's place. I wouldn't have let her off so easy ! company indeed ! it's bothered we are with her old company!"
"Well, Bridget! after that," began Bessy, but the doorbell rang at the moment, and she ran up stairs to answer it, saying to herself as she hurried along the hall: "Are they losin' their senses, or what's the matter with them at all!"
Next day towards evening when Sally came for her clothes she appeared a different person altogether. It was a dreary, drizzling day, and she looked cold and miserable. Having got her things together she brought them down to the kitchen, tad, drawing a chair in front of the bright cheerful fire, commenced a whispered colloquy with Bridget, who sat picking feathers near the range.
"What on earth am I to do," said Sally, "I haven't got but fifty cents in the world, and I must give that to the man in the offfice!"
"A'nt there anything coming to you here?"
"Not a red cent. Do you think you could lend me a dollar or two till such times as I get a place?"
"I wish to God I could, Sally, but you know I sent home all I could scrape together last week."
"Lord bless me! what will I do, at all? Do you think Mrs. Hibbard would take me back?"
"I'm sure I don't know. You might try her, anyhow."
A bright thought struck Sally, and up stairs she went, on and on till she came to Mrs. Walters' room, where she knocked at the door, and was admitted by Bessy, who looked at her with surprise.
"Dear me ! what is she about?" thought Bessy, as she cast her eyes compassionately over her draggled apparel.
The object of Sally's visit was to solicit Mrs. Walters' intercession with her justly-offended mistress.
"Well, really,Sally!" said Mrs.Walters very gravely, "I
can hardly make up my mind to do it. I am sorry for you -- very sorry indeed -- but from what Mrs. Hibbard told me, I think you were very much to blame. You had a good place of it here, and you have lost it by your own fault. What dependence could Mrs. Hibbard ever place in you after your conduct of last nights."
"Well, ma'am," said Sally with a very humble, penitent air, "if Mrs Hibbard will only forgive me this once, I will promise never to do so again. Won't you ask her, Mrs. Walters? I'll just tell you the truth. ma'am! I han't got any money to pay my board."
"You should have thought of that in time," said Mrs. Walters, but her kind heart was touched, and she told Sally to go down stairs and wait. She would go and speak to Mrs. Hibbard and see what could be done. Depending on Sally's promises, her mistress took her back at Mrs. Walter's request to give her another trial.
Bessy saw and heard all this, and she laid it up in her heart as a useful lesson.
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