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In relating a atory to hl brother mem
ber of the Railway Mall Aeaoclatlon,
-but the chicken waa not aent. Finally
h changed his prayer: "Lawd he said.
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And the Railway Mall Association U
following the old negro a example. It
has prayed Congress by many a me
morial and by persistent petition to be
placed on an equal footing with other
civil service employes, but Its prayer
have been unheard. Now It is try
ing th other plan: It is taking the
public Into Its confidence and hopes to
be placed so near to Congressmen by
popular support that It may take what
has been denied through prayer.
Mr. Schardt Is vli-e-presldent of the
association, and Is the field lieutenant
of President Canfield. He attended the
recent convention In Portland of the
Kighth Division of the Railway Mall
Association, and did so at his own ex
pense. He might be called press agent
of the association, which by combined
and united efTort Is trying to arouse
so much Interest and sympathy on the
part of the public with what is gener
al iv conceded to be tta Just demands
that Congressmen will not dare deny
what Is asked.
But Mr. Schardt. one of whose duties
l to conduct this publicity campaign, is
like the other 14.999 members of th as
sociation he ts deeply Interested in the
success, of the movement and pays his
own expenses, losing time and salary
from his regular work. In that respect
only he differs from a real press agent.
Its One Grievance.
The grtevance of the Railway Mall As
sociation It has only one ts a big one.
It Is directed against the government's
rule compelling railway mall clerks to
p- their own expenses while on dnty.
Pelng on duty, be It remembered. Is a
very large part of a railway mall clerk's
life, and he Is the only civil service em
ploye on the Government's payroll who
Is compelled to pay his own expenses.
Such discrimination Is unfair and un
just, the clerk says, and It is his purpose
to let the people know how he Is being
treated. For the people, according to
textbooks on political economy, are the
government, and once they realise that
discrimination exists, the clerk argues.
' It will cease. Consequently the clerks
have oiwanizd themselves Into the Rail
way Mall Association, an organisation
extending throughout the country, and.
forgetting all minor or trivial matters,
baa centered Its power and Influence In
accomplishing a remedy for this once evil
of discrimination.
What a Mallclerk Must Know.
The Railway Mall Service of the
Vnlted States is organized with general
headquarters at Washington, u. c. ana
divisional headquarters at Boston. New
York City. Atlanta. Washington. Cincin
nati. Chicago. St. Louis. San Francisco.
Cel.: Cleveland. St. Paul and Fort Worth.
Texa-s. There are about 15.000 clerks and
officers. 14.000 assigned to duty In rail
way mall cars and 100 ss transfer clerks
and In supervisory capacities.
The occupation Is included In the Civil
Service, and to enter it is necessary to
pass an examination requiring at least
an academic education: there ts also
strict nhvsiral examination, and the
standard in this is higher than that re
quired to enter our Army or Navy. When
the appointment Is received a clerk is
given a scheme of distribution of all the
post offices of some state, meaning that
be Is to learn and remember the location
of each postoffice. he It on a railroad or
stage route, and at regular Intervals he
Is called for examination on that state
until he ts able to give exactly sucn lo
cation of all offices. Then he Is given
another state to learn, and this process is
conrlnued until he acqulrea perfect
knowledge of the location of from SO00 to
15.000 poetofflcea In different states, the
knowledge and number of offices' varying
on account of location of his run or line
of railroad upon which his assignment
places him. He haa to know. also, the
, railroad timetables or schedules of the
states he distributes mall for; and as
these are constantly chancing. It Is nec
essary to be eternally vigilant. There
are frequent changts In his schemes of
distribution which he receives weekly,
new postoffWs established, others dis
continued, and still others have changes
of supply, requiring the nalearning of
things once learned as well as constant
acquisition of new information.
The Element of Hazard.
It takes about four years of this kind
of study, accompanied by steady work
In the postal car. to make a good clerk
out of the recruit, and ss long aa he re
mains In the service there is never a
cessation of study or work. On all heav
ier lines the clerk Is granted regular lay.
ofT periods for recuperation and study,
hut his time belongs wholly to the Gov
ernment and he la liable to call for extra
duty at any time.
There la a considerable element of bsi
ard connected with the service, and this
element of hazard should have appealed
to the public mind long ago. But it
haen't.
You have never met with a railway
mail clerk In a play, and Indeed you
likely have never encountered one In a
novel. You have seen innumerable pic
tures depicting the "postman." bni never
have you seen a part taken Ly a man In
a car. The conductor, the engineer, the
baggageman, anu almost everybody eon
necteti with the operation of a train fcas
a place In art. current romance or in the
play, but the railway postal has not.
But thia element of hazard Is recog
nized by Insurance companies. During
the last fiscal year one out of every !S
railway mall clesrks waa killed or In
jured. Congress makes some provision
for this, however. In that the family of a
clerk killed while on duty receives J:0(n;
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own carelessness Is not responsible re
ceives bis regular salary during the con
tinuation of the Injury up to one year.
The hazard, however, is Incidental to
the occupation, and is not considered In
the acceptance or filling of a position In
the serv ice.
Few people out of the millions In this
country who are beneficiaries of the rail
way mall clerk's service have any con
ception of the hardships undergone
hourly and daily by the men In that de
partment, or of the exacting and rigid
requirements by which they qualify.
There Is a constant demand for good
cars and appliances m order to reduce the
mortality to as low a point as possible.
Department officials are continually In
sisting upon strong cars, but only with a
degree of success; but many railroads
are slow In providing the best equipment,
notwithstanding the fact that they re
ceive In annual rental and mall pay about
14000 for each car.
Xever In the Limelight.
And these mallear are the homes for
railway mail clerks during a big portion
of their time. For long runs and long
hours he Is caged up In them with a
mass of work, the slightest mistake In
which might cause any amount of trouble.
The public has practically no knowledge
of the occupants of these cars.
At the station tne Inquisitive passen
ger will walk forward and inspect
the engine and engineer, will watch
the work of the baggage and express
men, but he looks upon tne mallear aa
forbidden territory. It Is therefore
passed by. This, of course, arises
from the necessary exclusion of the
public from the car. which, to . the
passenger and' the public. Is merely a
mysterious arrangement of racks,
cases. Iron frames, padlocks and sacks.
In this campaign of publicity that
is being Inaugurated special appeal Is
to be made to business men through
out the country. It Is argued that
business men pay most of the expense
of the postal service for 78 per cent
of the postal revenues of this country
is paid by first-class postage, business
men's postage. Consequently. It (a
urged, the business men who pay most
of this should be Intensely Interested
In the railway mail service which
handles 90 per cent of their mall.
Appeal to Business Men.
But it Is very likely a fact that
business men are not Interested at the
present time, for their lack of Inform
ation on the subject might be consid
ered as conclusive proof. It ts the
object of the association to get them
Interested, because they pay the larger
part of the clerks' salaries, though
having little or nothing to do with
their work. Its order or Its compensa
tion. President J. T. Canfield. of Syra
cuse. N. Y.. president of the associa
tion, haa made a strong appeal for the
Interest of business men.
"There should be a strong bond of
interest between business men and
our association." he said. "It should
exist so that we may understand each
other better, that they may recognize
the splendid service we are giving
and will continue to give, and that
they may insist on the efficiency of
that service being maintained.
"Railway postal clerks are divided
Into nine classes with annual salaries
ranging from $800 to 11600." and the
average salary is at present SI 162. We
are required to pay out of this our ex
penses on the road, which, economize
as we may. amounts to about $150 an
nually, leaving the net salary around
$1000.
' "We maintain that this amount la
less, much less than we earn, and we
have been trying for some time to
have Congress make us an allowance
for expenses while on duty. In all
other departments of the Government
and elsewhere In our own department
expenses while away from domicile or
headquarters are paid clerks and of
ficers, and the principle Is universally
recognized in the business world. We
seem to be the only exception and we
uk to have It remedied. We ask for
actual expenses rathe'r than raise In
larv. because there la much differ
ence in expenses of clerks on different
lines and in different parts ot the
country, that such an allowance will
equalize salaries and give every one
a square deal.
'Business men. Individually, and
through their strong commercial bod
lea can help us: we ask you to. Toil
are Interested In having the best rail-
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND. NOVEMBER 8, 1908.
way mail service possible, and we will
try to give It to you; but you realize
that efficiency goes with square deal
ing, so help us to make our lot a com
fortable one that we may cheerfully
and gladly give you the best we have,
realizing our efforts are recognized
and appreciated."
Working Excess Hours.
The Eighth Division of the Railway
Mail Service, a convention of which
has just been held in this city, com
prises Alaska. Arizona. California, Ha
waii. Xdaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and
Washington. It has headquarters at
San Francisco under the superlnten
dency of A. H. Stephens. Chief clerks
are located at various important cen
ters. The chief clerk at Portland la
F. E. Whitney and under his charge is
the service in Oregon, Southern Idaho,
the two northernmost counties In Cali
fornia, and the Columbia River coun
ties in Washington.
There are about 125 men under his
supervision. Forty-six of these are
employed on the Pocatello run, 80 on
the Dunsmulr run and the remainder
on the various other shorter runs and
transfer and office duty.
A clerk on the north division of the
Portland and San Francisco Railway
Postoffice. the run from Portland to
Dunsmulr, gives Interesting figures
and data In connection with the work
of the men on that run.
"For the purpose of comparison." he
said. "I will show the amount of
time required of a Government em
ploye or other person working on the
eight-hour basis. The eight-hour em
ploye at six days a week is required
to devote 48 hours per week and In
the 62 weeks of the year must give
2496 hours of his time to service.
"The railway postal clerks on trains
13 and 14 of the north division of the
Portland and San Francisco route are
required to make 61 round trips a year
and are in actual service at least SS
hours on each trip, or a total of 3224
hours a year. This Is an average of
62 hours per week or 14 hours more
than Is required each week of the
How the Little Tots Are Prepared for School Work
Lilian Tingle Makes Visit to Miss Zell McCartney's Irvlngton Kindergarten and Tells of What Is Being Done.
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HERE are parents and teachera
ho look a little dubloua when
you mention the word "kinder
garten." There are othera who express
emphatic opinions that kindergarten
work is "a lot of play and nonsense";
and there are again others who will tell
you enthusiastically of what the kin
dergarten has done for their cWldren.
That Is because there are kindergar
tens and kindergartens. There Is the
"play" kind, with perhaps a young and
Imperfectly trained teacher with no
very clear Ideas as to either purpose or
methods; and there is the "work" kin
dergarten, with a well-planned carefully-developed
course, which correlates
with the primary work of the schools
and does much more for the little peo
ple than simply keeping them amused
and out of their parents' way.
The Irvlngton Tennis Club Kinder
garten Is the latter kind. Its teacher.
Miss Zell McCartney, has not only a
deep and genuine understanding and
love of children, but has had the train
ing which enables her to direct their
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eight-hour employe. But this is not
all the time required of these clerks.
"They must devote at least seven
hours per week In preparation for
their runs, correcting schemes, check
ing up registered mall receipts, pre
paring for examinations, etc. This
seven hours added to the 62 hours
they put In .on the road makes a total
of 69 hours per week which Is the
minimum amount of time required of
the clerks on these trains at this time.
This is 21 hours a week more than
is required of the eight-hour employes.
Service In Oregon.
"The clerks on trains 17, 15 and 16 of
the same railway postoffice are re
quired to make 61 round trips a year
with a minimum of 49 hours' service
per round trip or a total of 2994 hours
per year. This la an average of BTii
heurs per week, or nine and one-half
hours more service than Is required
of the eight-hour employe. To this
must be added at least . seven hours
per week required for clerical duty
off the road which makes a total, of
lihi hours which is the minimum
service per week in excess of that re
quired of the eight-hour employe. -
"The Government recognizee the
eight-hour law and will not permit
contractors on Government work to
require more than eight hours' service
of their employes. I believe that any
fair-minded , person will agree that it
is not right or Just to compel us to
put In from 16V4 to 21 hours more
each week than Is required, of the
eight-hour employes. Clerks pn the
Dunsmulr division have petitioned for
extra crews to be regularly assigned
to their line in order that they may
be put on the eight-hour ' basis and
to relieve them of the strain of over
work to which they are now subject
ed. The holiday season Is fast ap
proaching when the. malls are exceed
ingly heavy and the clerks will be re
quired to undergo great hardships.
It is my belief that unusual condi
tions prevail on this line and that there
are few if any parallels in the United
States at the present time."
Always on. Duty to the Public.
Another clerk talked of the hazards
and sudden demands that, are made
upon them at any moment. The haz
CHILDREN ATTENDING KINDERGARTEN AT IRVINGTON TEJMS CLUB
activities In a way that brings excel
lent results. The children are definitely
prepared for primary work, and when
the first day qf "real school" comes,
they have a comprehension of disci
pline, can follow Instructions, think a
little for themselves and have ideas of
color, form, writing, phonics and num
ber work, and something of general
knowledge and cultivated memory for
the new teacher to build upon; so that
she may truthfully send to inquiring
parents the gratifying report: "Your
child is one of the brightest and best
behaved In my room."
If you want to know Just how these
things are accomplished you must visit
the kindergarten and try to think back
to the time when you were a wriggling,
giggling bunch of mischief In curls and
diminutive skirts, or in all the masculine
dignity of cropped hair and your first
"reel cloth pants, wtv pockets." First
comes the orilectlon of their small pupils
by Miss McCartney and her two assist
ants. Tou march. 30 of you. in a two by
two "crocodile" from your home to the
pleasant club room, with Its big fireplace,
its tiny tables and chairs, and its fas
cinating pictures and sand-table. It's
most fun in rainy weather when there
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ards and personal experiences of each
would make a story of itself.
"A railway postal clerk Is often
called upon to make an Important de
cision in regard to the routing of the
mail in his charge," he said. "Some
times he has a chance to consult with
his head officials, but more often he
must act first and consult them after
WHERE THE RULES OF POKER DIFFER
Lucky Baldwin's California Story of the Straight Flush That Lost the Pot.
A
PARTY of Tammany men who at
the conclusion of the Denver con
vention went out to' have a look
at the Pacific -Coast met up with and
had a great foregathering with Lucky
Baldwin, a Democrat and sport of the
olden time. He sat into a poker game
with the party one night, and at the
Conclusion told the following story, says
the New. York Sun:
"A man who sits Into .a game of draw
in a region that Is new to him without
first finding out the rules of the game
as It is played In said region Is liable to.
stack up against more bother than the
Irish soldier who clomped into Moham
medan place of worship with his boots
and spurs and cap on. I say this because
you fellows have noticed of course how
different' our brand of poker is out here
on the Coast from the game that is
played back your way.
"Poker is a good deal like Indian talk.
I can talk pretty fair Modoc Injun
learned it from Modocs in this state long
before most of you boys were born. But
I reckon If I'd talk Modoo to a bad Sho
shone or an Impetuous Sioux, why, he'd
begin to figure on how what's left of
my top hair would look for a tepee
lining. And there are more mixed brands
of draw poker played around the United
Btates than there are Injun dialects.
"Now, I once saw a game of poker
that resulted plumb seriously for both
players on account of the lack of un
derstanding between themselves before
the game started as to Just what the
hands were worth. This happened in
Beneria, a few miles up the bay from
San Francisco, in '68.
"I was in Red O'Malley's big Benlcla
are small umbrellas to manage and pud
dles to enliven the line of march, and
rubbers to squabble over Joyously when
It's time to go home and miss McCartney
looks you over to see that you are all
properly wrapped and buttoned, and shod.
On arrival you show each other your
new shoes (you don't mean to be vain, but
you can't help saying. "Mine's nicer 'n
youra!" Didn't your own mamma choose
them for you?) or you introduce to each
other dolls and Teddy bears that have
come to visit; or you help arrange chairs
or water plants or do other pleasant
things, untIL a chord on the piano brings
you to attention with your small toes
on the big circle in the middle of the
room.
Tou shake hands all around (good man
ners Is one of the things you learn in
kindergarten) and sing a good-morning
song. Then there Is some quiet musio
which somehow settles you down a little,
and you are ready for the stories and
songs that Introduce the "leading
thought" of the day.
"Leading thoughts" are excellent
things: but you don't always follow them
in the conventional way. You are having
a little talk on the days of the week, and
the teacher aks how you know when it
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wards. This is particularly true In
cases of accidents or washouts. He
sometimes has to send mall a good
many hundreds of miles out of its way
in order to get it to Its destination
in the shortest possible time.
"They work on the theory that each
letter and each package entrusted to
them is entitled to the quickest pos
sible service and what is the quickest
today may not be the quickest to
morrow. Several times in the last
faro mill one Sunday afternoon trying to
pump a little sense Into the fool head of
a friend of mine who had sloughed off
nearly every dollar he had In the world
against Benecia's " brace games, when
one of the lookouts came over to where
I was standing, and -aaid to me:
"'Red's got a hot game of draw on
with a new man upstairs. Go on up and
have a look?
"Now in tnose days. Red O'Malley was
looked upon as about the keenest draw
player on the Pacific Coast. He ran faro
games in most of the sizeable towns in
California for the coin there was in it,
but he Just played draw for fun.
"When I went upstairs to the poker
room O'Malley was sitting in. his shirt
sleeves opposite a solid looking man of 40
or thereabouts, dressed in the uniform of
a steamship officer. When I was told
that he was chief engineer of one of the
big Panama steamers I didn't have much
trouble in figuring out where he'd got
hold of the huge stack of gold coin he had
with him.
"In those days, you see. the chief en
gineers of the West Coast steamers used
to have entire charge of the coaling of
their vessels, and they considered it en
tirely legitimate to take a rakedown of
several thousand dollars every time they
coaled ship. Coal cost from J20 to $30 a
ton, and the chief engineers had the mak
ing of their reports as to their bunker
space and entered into the financial ar
rangements with the coal dealers on the
West Coast. It was the custom of the
day for the chief engineers of the Panama
steamers to feather their nests in this way
and nobody thought any evil of it.
"This chief engineer has just been
transferred from the East to the West
Coast, which accounts for the ignor
ance he showed of the rules of the Cal-
is Sunday. Did she expect an answer
about church beils or Sunday school?
Quick as a flash one small maiden pipes
up: "Sunday's the day when my poppa
stays home an' fixes his automohill."
How you enjoy the "dramatizing
work (you call it "let's pretend" in
your own mind) and how eager you are
to play father or mother-bird or to
flutter as an open-mouthed Hedgling
from the nest
Then you go to the tables for your
"gift lesson" and number work, with nice
colored balls and cubes and heads and
things. Just about the time when "the
fidgets" are likely to attack you, you
find yourself marching or playing lively
games. If the weather is fine these take
place outdoors In the play-yard.
Next you have painting or clay model
ing, or sewing, or you go on "Journeys"
on the sand table. And before you know
It, here it Is half past eleven, and time
for the good-bye circle and song.
You are far from being a little angel;
but somehow you haven't had time or op
portunity to be naughty; or. If you did
nearly succeed in being so, you now have
acme spasms of repentance, and, hugging
your teacher, you promise to be "awful
good tomorrow."
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few years mail for Seattle from Port"
land has been sent by way of Spokane
and that for Saji Francisco by way of
Ogden. At the present time msil for
Los Angeles Is being sent by way of
Ogden in the morning, owing, to the
fact that there ts no through train
on the Southern Pacific In the fore
noon. "Frequently letters for small towns
will be carried through that town
three or four times before H is finally
put off. The question of which trains
shall exchange mails with a town Is
left with the postmaster of that town
to a large extent and all the clerks on
the trains must know Just what trains
do business with each station on the
different lines."
lfornia game of draw. When I turned
up I found that he'd been Jolting
O'Malley pretty hard since the begin
ning of the two-handed session, but
the two brands of poker played by the
two men hadn't yet come Into conflict.
"You see, nobody ever played
straights out on the Slope. No old
time Sloper plays straights yet. And
at that time the Sloper who hadn t
traveled in the Ease or played draw
with Eastern men didn't know what the
word straight meant as applied to the
game of draw.
"O'Malley of course knew all about
straights, but he'd never played 'cm
with anybody, and I think he had a
right to assume that any man who
played draw with him in his own terri
tory ought to 've know.n the rules ot
the game in that territory. -
"There was a big Jackpot heaped In
the center of the table when I got Into
the room to look the game over. It
had been sweetened probably half a
dozen times and already contained
something close to 1000 in double
eagles. But neither man appeared to
be able to catch openers. Between them
It passed back and forth about a dozen
times, and every time it passed both
men sweetened it for a chunk. The
chief engineer dealt the final mess. .
"O'Malley was one of those cool players
who 'peeked at the corner of his cards
one by one as they lay face down on the
table. When he'd finally got hold of his
first three tickets he Joggled J300 Into the
middle of the table and remarked that
the pot was cracked this before looking
at his other two cards.
" These papers of mine are worm tow
more.' said the chief engineer, who was a
pretty self-contained chap himself, shov
ing the yellow stuff Into the pot.
" 'Oh. they are. are they?' said O'Mal
ley with a half grin. 'Then you want to
play 'em as high as the cat's back. pard.
merely standing the raise and discarding
two papers.
"The chief engineer gave himself one.
He picked It up gingerly, gazed at it for
a second or two. and then carefully closed
his mess of cards up like a tan and laid
them on the table.
" 'Do your bluffing, hombrey,' he said
to O'Malley.
" 'How about a thousand dollars'
worth?' said O'Malley, flicking the gold
Into the pot.
" 'Fine-.' said the chief engineer. 'Thou
sand more, though.'
" 'And a thousand.' said O'Malley. until
the clink of the metal became almost.
Incessant.
"Now I had been standing back of
O'Malley. and I saw him catch a pair of
nines to his three deuces, and I figured
that it was all over, especially as the en
gineer had drawn one card. whl-h made
it look like three or two pairs for him,
for flushes, you understand, couldn't be
drawn to In California in those dsys snd
had to be held pat to be any good. So I
figured that O'Malley was already under
the wire, in a way of speakinff.
"But the way the engineer kept hitting
back at O'Malley flnRlly got me to guess
ing, and by the time he had scooped near
ly all of the coin out of his sark I'd al
most begun to believe' that he'd held
fours from the beginning or had helped
threes Into fours.
"When there was about $10,000 in the
pot the chief engineer, cool as a mountain
trout in a shady pool, emptied out his
coin sack and found that he had little
more than $1090 left. He shoved the 11000
to the center and said, 'You're called.'
"O'Malley spread out his deuce full of
nines.
" 'N. G.,' said the engineer, spreading
out his seven high straight flush of dia
monds and reaching for the pot.
" 'What's no good? Hands off thar
money!' sang out O'Malley. "What lit
the devil do you mean? Since when did
a drawn-for flush beat a full house?'
"'A flush doesn't.' replied the chief en
gineer, 'but if you'll dig the shells out
of your eyes you'll see . that mine is a
straight flush, which beats any mss of
fours in the deck. , Take your Tippers
off that coin."
"'Straight flush be damned,' yelled
O'Malley, springing to his feet. "Not on
this side of the Sierras does it beat any
man's full house!'
"The words were hardly out of O'Mal
ley's mouth before the chief engineer,
who was a big. powerful man. had O'Mal
ley by the throat. Then he did a cruel
thing. Holding the gambler's throat in a
viselike clutch with his left hand and
arm, he deliberately poked his strong,
horny right index finger into O'Malley's
right eye. Jabbing it out.
"Wild with rage and pain, O'Malley
pulled himself loose and whipped out a
long knife, and in two minutes the chief
engineer, cut to ribbons, lay dead on the
floor.
"O'Malley Jumped to Tucson, where, In
the mld-'70s, he was shot to death by
Billy the Kid while dealing faro bank for
that indiscriminate young killer."
Wheels.
1808.
See Grandma, sweet In llnsey gown.
In the Ions' ltvinsr room ha tands,-
And patient spina npr aany sirm;
Gulds the bis wheel with slim
white
band-
Lo! this Is Mother's busy day.
She's stitching dainty lawn and lace.
Swift turns the wheel of her machine.
Wblle she the treadle works apace.
1908.
Ht! Mab's flovM hand is on the wheel.
Through perils dans she In and out.
SkMs. scorches, speed3 and spins and whirls.
She'i trying a new runabout.
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