The La Rose Festival has spun a cultural tale of music, dance and drama for over 200 years. It showcases the pride and resilience of the Saint Lucian people who have passed on the richness of his cultural history from one generation to the next. The La Rose Society emerged in Saint Lucia when the slaves divided themselves between two rival flower factions to parade the virtue and worship of the flower chosen. In this case, the Rose. However, it was not simply an art form developed to gratify the Negro slave's propensity for dancing. Rather, it was a means of establishing a sense of identity in a politically sensitive, oppressive system. Rather than emphasize the masking of traditional African professions such as the warrior, witch doctor and herbalist, the Flower Festival strongly emphasized the decorum of European regal courts and dance forms. Some believe this to be an outward mockery of European traditions. Others view the festival as the Roman Catholic Church's attempt to bring the slaves under their influence, thereby eliminating the significance of their African origin. Followers of the Rose based their devotion on the myth or legend of Santa Rose de Lima. The story goes that a young slave named Rose, who worked in the great house of a plantation, was dissatisfied with the bad treatment her relatives received while working in the fields and elsewhere in the plantation. She habitually stole bread from the kitchen and took it to her relatives at night. However, she was soon regarded with suspicion and one night, guards ordered her to reveal what she had in her apron. Miraculously, as she complied, instead of loaves, bunches of roses fell from her apron. This saved her life and was seen as a divine reward for her acts of resistance and good deeds. As a result, the La Rose Society was birthed. As island celebrants adopted both the sanctified girl's name and the miraculous flower as their symbol. She became the first Christian saint of the New World, the patron saint of the Rose Society and the feast day of Saint Rose de Lima was created in her honor. However, some are of the belief that the Rose Society emerged in Africa before slavery. The legend places Rose as one of the daughters of a great Pharaoh who was very charitable with the poor of the land occasionally passing them loaves from Pharaoh's table. One day, the Pharaoh returned home early from battle only to find a crowd of poor outside the court. He queried as to their presence and Margaret, Rose's sister, revealed that it was Rose's fault for giving them food. Pharaoh ordered the Rose to be arrested and searched. This is the point at which both versions conjoined. Instead of finding food in her apron, the crumbs miraculously changed into roses and her life was saved. Members of the Rose Society host an annual La Rose Festival on August 30th which is preceded by many social gatherings such as sciences and parties leading up to the date. This festival follows the masquerade tradition since the main performance is a street procession of costume characters including theatrics and dramatizations within the street parade. The characters within the festival are hierarchically structured to illustrate the colonial society with the king and queen as the head followed by other dignitaries and ending with people of lower economic standing. In some situations, a whole family is chosen as the royal family. Members vote verbally to choose individuals who have some local standing and whose families have been particularly active in the society as the royal family. The heads of the family are anointed king and queen in a coronation service and their children, princes and princesses. The magistrate, policeman, nurses and other social functionaries are also represented as well as thieves and miscreants who dramatize being arrested by police and brought before the magistrate. These role performances are most evident during the festival however they are relatively more permanent than the mass someone plays during carnival. Unlike carnival in which the crown king and queen of the band only assumes these roles for the two days of the revelry the king and queen of the La Rose Festival do not only preside over the sessions but they influence from these roles extend beyond the contours of the festival into real life, some for several years. Preparations for the La Rose Festival start many months before the actual feast day on August 30. During that period, the Rose Society gathers at a bar of hall in the community particularly on weekends to hold seances. These seances should not be confused with practices of the occult but are in essence an all night singing and dancing session where drinks are sold and games are played. These seances are also used to rehearse songs and raise funds for the grand performance on August 30. The royal couple presides over the sessions. The magistrate sits with them and they are flanked on either sides by guards. The chateau and musicians take their positions before the royal pair and begin their presentations of singing and dancing for the pleasure of the royals. The songs and dances at the seances are vibrant and boisterous featuring popular cultural dances such as the mappa and quibish. The instruments used are rustic and include the violin, banjo, quattro, guitar, shakshak, baha and drums. As the members move about dancing, the police ensure that all misdemeanors are brought before the magistrate, arrested and fined for crimes such as being too bloom, exuberant or smoking without a license in an area. These fines, as well as the sale of drinks and light snacks, defer the expense from the society. The songs sang at the seances are led by a chateau or lead singer, usually a woman who sustains the spirit and tenor of the session. She is also responsible for the composition of new songs, also known as belés. Some belés sing the praise and virtue of the rose flower. Others are designed to ridicule their rival group, the Lamagherites. The chateaus lead the belés and members of the group acting as a chorus in a call and response pattern. On the actual day of the festival, all members of the rose society gather at the hall for communal breakfast. Previously, the men wore costumes similarly worn by the European colonizers. The women wore outfits similar to the national costume of St. Lucia, the warp duet. However, today, the costumes have changed to imitate the contemporary outfits corresponding to a particular role. The women's costumes primarily portray the colors red, pink and white. Nevertheless, dressed in the fineries of their respective roles, the royal family being the most elaborate and adorned, they would then proceed to the church for a special service before hitting the streets for the culminating street masquerade. After the parade, unlike the seances, the gonfet is a more disciplined event. The dancing is traditionally limited to quadrille, lances and other figure dances including ballroom type dancing. St. Lucia has always been predominantly Catholic and the policies of the church have a significant influence on its followers, including the flower societies. As a result, the roses assume a community self-help spirit and aided with many of the projects entrusted to the church. In fact, there is scarcely a parish on the island that doesn't owe the erection of its church wholly or partly to the support and funding of the flower societies. For instance, the roses build the bell free at the Catholic Church in Vufort. The virulent red of the rose still speaks to many of St. Lucia today. This is partly due to the passion, love and dogged commitment of the myriad of chateaux to the grueling task of the preservation and popularization of La Rose song and dances. Among these chateaux, there is none so gifted and loved as Dame Cessen Descartes of Paseus who was the lead chateau for the La Rose group in Miku from the age of 8. Cessen was deemed the queen of culture and became a central figure in the revival of the folk songs and dance traditions of St. Lucia that threatened to fade into obscurity with time. Cessen's influence also inspired the work of Joyce Hoguees and the creation of two singing groups, the Hellenites and the Uranora voices whose long-playing records of La Rose songs allowed these songs to become well-known and quite popular in the wider St. Lucia society. Today the La Rose Flower Festival has crossed continents and germinated with seedlings of St. Lucia's overseas. The structure and revelry of the festival brings together the diaspora community in the spirit, song, dance and of course the drama that is La Rose. Despite the popularity of the La Rose Festival and their contribution to society, they were not without their fair share of problems, especially with the Catholic Church who threatened their very existence and continuity. During the festival, the Rose's verbal ridicule or maitre of their rival groups sometimes provoked hatred which gave rise to dissension and even violence. In one incident in Sofret, the Rose's paraded the flag of blue silk, the color of their rival group, through the streets to prove their superiority. The margarits were retaliated with an ambush after the Guamfet that resulted in many battered bones and even the threat of burning down the town. Thus, the Church completely opposed the plural societies and viewed their festivals as an occasion for widespread immorality and disorderly conduct. The La Rose Festival was excommunicated by the Church and Catholics who forbidden from joining or remaining in them. To highlight the seriousness of the situation, Rolrik Wolcott's play The Banjo Man was even banned by some churches. The extravagant, wholesome and rioting nature of La Rose didn't only land them in trouble with the Church but with other institutions and some members of the upper class in society. In 1865, the editor of the St. Lucia blamed the Flower Festivals for the increase in the crime of larceny in Sofret. In an article in The Voice News paper, members of the upper class called the festival stupid and expressed the disgust and outrage over the lack of good judgment by reputable decent young men who participated in these shameful behaviors, all in the name of a vulgar popularity of a flower. Given the present wave of nationalism and cultural awareness in St. Lucia, such notions may no longer be publicly expressed. However, there may be many today who silently endorse these sentiments. Over the years, there has been a union to emerge from the weight of our colonial legacy and to establish a national identity with a particular focus on resurgence of traditional or folk culture. Therefore, recent governments took a particular interest in the Floral Societies as they represented one of the last remaining components of a vibrant and complex culture which evolved out of our colonial past. Additionally, the fact that flower festivals like La Rose were unique in St. Lucia further stimulated their recognition as a core national identity. As a result of this, the relationship between the societies, the church and the ruling class began to change. Today, the relationship with the church has been fully restored and the La Rose mural by Dunstan St. Uma at the Church of St. Rose Delima in Moshe is a testament to her radical attitudes have changed towards the flower festivals, as well as the church's efforts to work more closely with the Rose congregation. The fact that the La Rose Society became recognized primarily as a singing association and the ones of violent rivalry which existed between them and their rivals, the Magrids, declined into a more amicable one may have also been a contributing factor to this general acceptance as time passed. Though only the labouring class and domestic servants took an active role in the festival, there was scarcely an individual on island who did not enroll in one of the Floral Societies. In fact, a number of upper class peoples such as planters, businessmen and government officials at one point gave financial and moral support to the societies. However, today, the support from the commercial sector is almost non-existent with the exception of the Labry Cooperative Credit Union which has consistently supported various La Rose groups. Over the years, the number of groups has decreased substantially perhaps due to the fact that although the basic structure and tradition of La Rose remains unchanged over the years, the relative significance of the festival as a popular institution of folk expression within St. Louisian society has indeed changed drastically. Like Junique Weall and Carnival, the La Rose Festival was recognized as a cultural and social tradition involving the entire St. Louisian population. However, at present, this national and cultural identity has been confined primarily to rural communities. Furthermore, in the wake of the cultural imperialism transmitted via radio, television and the internet, the appreciation for the festival, especially amongst the younger generation, has waned. Recent governments, cultural institutions and various commercial businesses within the society believe that the La Rose Festival embodied the unity, strength and togetherness of the culture and the sense of hudme could not be allowed to disappear from society. It was generally agreed that more education and the strengthening of the socio-political position of the festival would ensure its survival. Therefore, the governments felt it necessary to incorporate the recognition of the floral societies into their programs and cultural development. One such initiative is the teaching of La Rose songs at school so that future generations are exposed to and involved in aspects of the festival so as to cement the traditions of La Rose within them. Another initiative promoted by the cultural development foundation is the introduction of the Guanceas. Traditionally, sciences were held by various groups in different communities. However, the Guanceas represents an amalgamation of all the various groups in a unified science in Rodney Bay. This initiative also forms part of CDF's drive to develop the festival into a tourism product. There is a certain strength and resilience associated with the flower festivals which have enabled them to overcome political and religious oppression in the past and survive in the face of waning cultural significance and imperialism of the present. Although the scope to regain nationwide participation is limited, the La Rose Festival will forever be deep-rooted in the cultural communities and form part of their societies. As long as the traditional mantle continues to be passed from one generation to the next and efforts to improve the festival are supported by various governments and the wider society, the La Rose Festival will continue to be a vibrant representation of St. Lucia's rich cultural heritage.


yes this who is dead they just passed me channel today's video as you can see from the title i am going to be reviewing some beautiful perfumes i cannot wait to open these i've been waiting to open these for about three days now so i can give you an honest review if you're new here hey girl my name is akira jenay don't forget to subscribe to join the family before you leave so this video is sponsored by sense angel so thank you so much for sponsoring this video they did send me over three full size bottles of perfume you guys already saw the unboxing and then i also got three samples from sense angel and i think as well this is a sample so then i will have four samples as well so i'm going to go ahead and get into the samples first the the first sample that i have is five milliliters it is i know i'm going to butcher these names i can never pronounce perfume correctly like it took me forever to get anything pronounced so this one is their mancria roses their vanilla perfume i got five milliliters of this this looks so girl you didn't mean to do that but it smells good get down you smell good though okay so don't unscrew pull off melt to self this is five milliliters super cute the bottles are so cute really sleek like i said i just wasted it and i can already smell it it smells so good i love anything vanilla scent so this literally i'm not going to spray it on me because they don't want to have so many scents on me it smells so good it's just a really nice vanilla scent i'm really bad at kind of explaining things so i hope i can explain this to the best of my ability to really tell you how to smell but it just i mean it's vanilla it's a really really good smelling vanilla perfume glad they sent me that as a sample that smells so good this one is their elective elective must something and five milliliters all the names will be on the screen and down in the description box same cute bottle same cute packaging for this sample member pool not twist it's definitely giving a grown woman like something that i will buy for my mom my mom birthday was this past weekend so i actually might give this to her yeah so my mom just turned no she won't say her age 59 um this is definitely giving her scents um i don't know how to describe this like it just gives a very very grown older woman like not old ladies mail but like grown woman to the scent to the sense of where it can be like i don't know how to describe i'm sorry like it doesn't stink but it's just it's not my cup of tea like this is something that i would give for my mom to wear the next sample that i have is there this is the same name is this big box um so i'm thinking is this the same thing this is rejoice this is rejoice this is extra in the perfume i'm not sure i'm going to have to smell these but they sent me 10 milliliters in this one and then the other ones was five so let's give this a smell this one is cute same thing just a little bit bigger gonna open this one this smells good it reminds me of that one perfume from Sephora it reminds me of Dior honestly like this one i need you to get back because he's like right here while i'm about the spirit spray these perfumes hmm yes this one is giving it smells so good this one is giving really not really fruity but fruity sexy type of fun vibes like floral if that makes sense like i don't really like floral scents but the floral is very very minimum but it's just giving cute sexy like you about to go out and get you a little cute cocktail you want to go you know put this on for your first date or grow out with your girls this is what this is giving me like i would definitely wear this out drinking some cocktails at the bar or something like that so yes this smells amazing if this is how this smells girl i can't wait to get up in that so yeah i'm definitely keeping this one this smells amazing and this one is another sample i believe oh yeah two milliliters this is the name of this one oh it's upside down my bed and then it comes in a smaller bottle i'm not even gonna like this one ain't it this is definitely giving like really older ladies like 80 years old first big bottle that we're gonna get into is this cute one how cute is the packaging like baby okay okay this one is called their vanilla food odd oh ud have re-pronounced it super excited to get into this they gave me the 3.4 fluid ounce oh the packaging is so cute i don't even want to freaking open this girl oh that last person stinks of it that little bitty mini mini sample i gotta spray something else quick uh just get into the packaging though looking nice yes girl this one is real subtle giving me like low-key vibes like you don't really want to be seen but like if i walk past you then it's like you turn around like dang like who is that that just passed me that's what this is giving me like real low-key cute little vibes like it smells so good so online it says um i can definitely smell the top notes is saffron apple and somewhere i have on the screen middle notes cashmere wood rose jasmine so imagine marshmallows roasted over a sandalwood fire meat sweet tasty caramel creamy vanilla like yes they said it leaves a track that follows through the desert like girl this one i will give this one a good eight out of ten coffee levée levée brevet shy i know i can't pronounce these take a screenshot this is how it looks cute packaging we love a good little blush pink moment let's hope this one smells just as amazing as the other one so literally huge bottle this is 3.4 fluid ounces as well this is so cute i love how dark it is like i don't have a dark perfume in my collection at all so i'm really excited hopefully i really really like this one not too bad so this one is giving me more of like a kind of musky feeling like it's a it's a strong strong scent if that makes sense like it coming in this cute little pink box definitely is deceiving because look at the you know color difference and it's it's just giving me musk like not really for a man but for me if that makes sense like it's not something i would probably wear but it doesn't smell bad it's just a little bit too strong in the sense of it smelling more musky than my liking so i didn't even open this i couldn't even get it that's on the box so freaking cute for the presentation baby can we just get into it yes all right let me try to get a thumbnail we're gonna take her out yes this this bottle first of sickening how freaking cute is this and it's heavy like uh this just looks so luxurious so cute this one is a fragrance for men and women it says i think this is a women's perfume now the last one that dark one this one is definitely giving a man like musk or if you really like that as a woman then this one is for you this one they say men and women but honestly this one is giving me straight female straight feminine like oh my gosh it smells so good so it is definitely different from this one it's the same name but it has a different like extract or something i'm not sure but yes so this one is more like fruity fruity sexy you know like mischievous if you will maybe for this simple one i'll put that one on the screen as well and this one is more so giving me like just kind of like your everyday scent if that makes sense like it's really is really sweet it's really subtle really feminine so yeah i really really like this one not giving me like winter time it's definitely giving me like spring summer and it's just like your everyday go to so yeah i feel like the reason why they say maybe men as well because kind of as it's kind of settling in like after the first notes and stuff it's kind of giving like that musky type of scent but like it's just still really feminine to me so yeah this one i would have to give this one 10 out of 10 this one gonna be a 9.5 out of 10 for a presentation scent like everything oh my gosh it smells so good all right so i'm gonna write these in order like i said this simple one is going to be first this one is going to be my second one this one will be my third the other vanilla will be my fourth and this will be fifth and then this one will be sixth and i have all the names on the screen and then that other one that i literally could not even just smell is definitely the last one so oh my gosh thank you so much for sending these over to me they smell amazing minus that one little simple one but we're not even gonna talk about her because she's only two milliliters so yes thank you so much for sponsoring this video comment down below the ones that you would like to try out i will have all of the links and everything down in the description box below don't forget to check out their website for all of their sales and for my coupon code and as always don't forget to like this video comment and subscribe baby girl we're almost at 30k okay like we need a hundred more people so i'm going to get to subscribe it so yeah don't forget to like this video comment subscribe and i will see you 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State workers around the Commonwealth are not sure what the next step is in the fight over pension reform and retirement plans. The bill affects everyone differently depending on what stage of their career they're in. Whether it be non-tenured, mid-career or ready to retire. It would affect me by losing sick days towards my pension, but I think the biggest impact is on the educational system as a whole because you're not going to get as quality of teachers and the inviolable contract for a teacher who's just starting for them to get a contract that will change at any time the governor or legislatures decide it changes. That's kind of scary. I worry about our incoming teachers. Our student teachers at this point. Our teachers that are in college and they're three years in, getting ready to do their student teaching and their uncertainty because they don't have that pension to fall back on. They're not grandfathered in. Those teachers are no longer pursuing that field in education, no longer in that career and they're going somewhere else or doing something else with their career choices. Yeah, our class sizes could go up or the number of teachers that we have, the staffing across the districts will go down and will have a negative impact overall. I've been talking with my other student teachers at UPyke and they're worried too and even the ones that are coming up into the education program, they don't know if they want to continue in education and like we've all discussed that's going to take away the quality of teachers and we're going to get mediocre at its best and where I wonder what we're going to do next, do I want to continue on and be a teacher which is something I've wanted to do all my life. The county schools have been canceled for tomorrow. Most teachers will be heading to the capital. For those who can't make it, a support rally will be held at Belfry Middle School from noon until two. In Belfry, Shelby Porter, EKB News.


Hey everyone welcome to today's day trading recap for Tuesday April 20th. Nice green day today plus 807s. Let's go through these I'll show you what happened. Mighty 90s did two trades both were winners plus 115 in Disney plus 210 in Peton. No pairs trades today. On the runners had a winner in beyond for 140 MU minus 272 PLTR and Roku were basically scratches minus 20 minus 30 Tesla plus 151 and my biggest winner Uber plus 513. So let's check these out starting with our Mighty 90s and Disney. So if we go to Disney Disney. Disney had this just weakness all morning came into this pivot with a nice volume spike so we got long right here. Just on this little bounce up right here I got out for get out a half of my position and just kind of chopped around, chopped around, chopped around and when I was looking for a couple back-to-back green bars it gave us one and then when it bounced up here it was green for a little bit getting ready to close so I ended up closing out my last piece right there and just booked a small profit of 115. Peton plus 210 so Peton had this initial strength out of the gate came up to a pivot nice volume spike here got short right in this area here and got this little wave down for a nice 210 profit there. I was having some chart issues early so I was taking some really small position sizes initially just because I was trying to get my bearing switching between charts and a bunch of different things so I still booked a profit on those two. On the runners we had Beyond so Beyond was a nice winner again I was this is one of my first trades I put on it was pretty small had this initial flush nice spike in volume got this bounce got short right here and rode this thing all the way down and got out of my last piece right there so nice trade in Beyond for plus 140. MU was a loser for minus 272 had this big push up nice volume spike on this pullback here got long it bounced up got out of half right here I was looking for more but it never never went any higher so it just kind of started coming down coming down I ended up cutting out of my last piece right here so I ended up taking a loss overall on MU of 272. PLTR was a scratch and that was actually on two different trades one to the upside one to the downside so had this initial push up nice spike in volume waited for a pullback to get long looking for a bounce a continuation higher didn't happen so when it broke below here I got out of my long and I got short and so I rode that short down and closed out of my last piece right here at the unchanged mark so ended up taking net net minus 20 bucks but got most of it back and did the same thing in Roku take a look at Roku Roku had this initial push up with volume looks for a little pullback to get long I missed I missed it right here I would have had a nice profit just on that little pop there but so I missed that initial push when it pulled back that's where I got long and never gave me any continuation higher part of this is the overall market that just started to get really weak drug drug everything down with it so when Roku came down and then when it bounced back up so it broke through when it bounced back up got short and rode this thing down I think I got out of my last piece I think it was right here right as it touched yesterday's low so ended up getting everything back except for $30 Tesla plus 151 so this was a kind of a quick little trade here Tesla had this push up let me expand this Tesla is just having some big volume bars big big big big and so when it had this one here I waited for a little pullback and I didn't wait for much you just pulled back here I got long about right here and this thing popped up got out of half and then when the market started getting really weak Tesla was holding up pretty well but started chopping around here and I just got out of my last half and just took a profit of 151 which in hindsight obviously was a good choice because this thing fell apart and then lastly Uber this is my biggest winner and Uber had this initial weakness here big volume bar when it bounced up to this pivot got short right here and this thing just rolled over I ended up getting out of my last piece I think right down here was the last one so nice trade in Uber for 513 so overall plus 807 we'll be streaming every day this week if you guys have any questions let me know


Hey everybody, this is Brian and welcome to the second Python tutorial. We're just going to jump right back on in here. If you watch video one, we did the Hello World program. We're going to kind of continue on with that, make a new Python file here and we'll call it the very descriptive video two. And like I said in the intro, we're going to cover this as if you're very new to programming. So if you're a veteran programmer, you can probably fast forward through a lot of this and just kind of pick up the highlights. There are a couple little things and I'll try to point those out. So in every program, you need to leave comments and a comment is this. Just a comment. It's you letting yourself know what you're doing. At some point you're going to get stuck, you're going to write some big long function and you're going to want to write a comment saying, hey, this is what I did. The comment is not processed by the Python processor, if that makes any sense, meaning it's just a note for you. The program doesn't care. So you can type literally anything you want. Probably best to put a descriptive note. Comments are good. So always keep that in mind. We're going to save this little guy here. Now the core of any program is a variable. And I'm sure your instructors, if you're in a university, have said a variable is this sector of memory that a pointer points to and your eyes start glazing over and you start thinking about playing hockey or video games or Call of Duty or whatever. All you need to know is a variable is something that will change. That's the actual literal scientific term for it. A variable is something that will change. In Python, variables are very easy. So we're just going to say, whoops, if I could actually spell first, equal, and Brian's my first name. We'll say last, equal, and Karens is my last name. And age, oh boy, I don't know if I want to put this out on the internet, I'm 40 years old and we're going to actually make a comment here. These are variables. Now if you try running this, you'll see it does absolutely nothing. It just says we ran, and then whatever the name of the script is, and finished with exit code zero. Exit code zero. Does that mean it's an error? No. Actually, code zero means there was no error. Programs will return different codes and those codes are usually called error codes. If you have Windows and you've ever seen the infamous blue screen, it's got some big garbly number. That's the error code. So exit code zero is a good thing. What we're going to do now is we're going to learn how to print things out. We already did the hello world. We're going to say print in all its glory. That's what this tutorial is all about, is printing. So we're going to say print, and we've done the hello world. So that's nothing new. You can also print and do single quotes, hello world. What's really the difference here? If we just run this guy, you can see it both prints hello world. What's really the difference? Nothing actually. It's just personal preference. The single quotes make it easier to put a quote in the string, and the double quotes make it easier to put a single quote in the string. Because let's say you want to say David's cat. Notice how, oops, yeah, suddenly now we got an error, unresolved reference cat. You'd have to put that inside of double quotes. That way it doesn't process the single quote. So if we run this again, you should see David's cat. So that's really all you need to know when it comes to that. My personal style is I typically do double quotes. You can change it however you want. So what happens if we want to print out a variable? Well, you may have already guessed. The reason why I use PyCharm here is it has this thing called IntelliSense. You see this little pop-up that keeps appearing? That tells you basic structure of what it's expecting. You see print, object, separator, and file flush. While I won't really get into that in this tutorial, you just know that what it's expecting is some object. Everything in Python is an object-oriented language. So we're going to say first, which is the name of this variable up here, print a variable. And you see there's Brian, our variable. Now what happens if you want to print more than one variable at a time? We'll say print, and you can say, oops, first, plus, and plus, last. You can do that. And a lot of people do that exact same way, and you see there's my name, Brian Carons. But there's an easier and a more correct way, string formatting. And what you're going to do is a little bit of voodoo magic here, but we'll explain this as we go.  And you're going to say, my name is, and you're going to do a percent sign. And an S, which represents a string, I am percent D for decimal, years old. Now I'm going to save this and run it just to show you what happens. It says my name is percent S, I am percent D, years old. That makes no sense. What it's expecting is these are just placeholders. And that's the format symbol, or actually the percent symbol, saying it's expecting a string, it's expecting a decimal. A string is just an assembly of characters, like my name is a string, a decimal is a number. It could also be called an integer, a floating point processor, et cetera, et cetera. But basically it's expecting a decimal number. Now we need to do the percent sign to tell it it's expecting a format. And we will need to give it what's called a tuple, which we'll explain that in a future tutorial. There's like I said a little bit of black magic going on here. We'll say Brian, Karen's, and 40. Run that, and you see, oh, what is this? Traceback most recent call, line 21, let's right click here and get some line numbers. So line 21, if you actually click that link, it'll take you right to the line. A number is required, not str. That's what's going on. This is an error, and I want to kind of walk you through this, because when you're sitting at home and you're typing away on this, you'll make errors and mistakes, and it won't line up with the video, and you're going to go, well, what I do different? I kind of wanted to explain this. Traceback, that basically means it's going to trace back in the code. The file is the file we're actually running. The line is the line number, line 21. And if your cursor's up here in PyCharm, you can actually click it, and it'll take you directly to the line. And it'll say in module, module something we haven't covered yet, and it gives you the actual code, print, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, the type error, percent D format. So we're looking at this guy right here, percent D, is a number required, a number is required, not a string. So what is really expecting is a number, now suddenly it runs. My name is Brian, I'm 40 years old. Little mischievous on my part. I apologize if that was a little bit confusing, but I want to get you used to making mistakes. Part of learning is making mistakes and fixing them. People get very frustrated when they make a mistake. I want you to make mistakes. All right, so let's explain this code and let's really understand what this thing's doing. We have a string, just a collection of characters, and inside that string we have some special things going on here. We have these formatting characters, the percent S and the percent D, meaning it's expecting a string and a number. Then we have the percent sign saying, hey, we are formatting this string, so it's going to look for the percent signs. And we're handing it a tuple, which is a list basically, or an array if you're used to other languages, which is think of it like a collection of objects. It can be numbers, letters, other objects, things of that nature. And we've got two of them in there, Brian and age. Now we can actually substitute that with, you guessed it, variables, first and age. These are the variables that we declared up here, first and age. Let's run that again, and you'll see, sure enough. And we can even modify this again, so we've got first, last, and age is what we're passing to this. My name is Brian Cairns. I am 40 years old. Whew, that's a mouthful there. So that in all its glory is string formatting and how to create and hopefully resolve and fix an error message. A lot of this is pretty intuitive, but let's say you just kind of goof something up, like let's add a little, you know, something there. You'll see the little red squiggly, and maybe that's not the best one. Let's just add some garbage in there, yeah. You'll see the red squiggly. So a lot of time you can just mouse over, and it will tell you what's going on, and resolve reference to, and you can click on little more, and it gives you a detailed explanation. That's part of why I chose this IDE, because I see a lot of people learning Python struggling with the built-in idle, and it's really not meant for beginners. I'm sorry. It's just not. All right, so we've made a variable. We printed the variable, and we've shown different ways of printing it. One thing we really haven't covered is string processing, which we're going to do in the next tutorial. What do I mean by string processing? I want to cover this in this tutorial, because I want to solidify what we just learned about variables. A variable is something that will change. Python's an object-oriented language. You hear that a lot, but what does it really mean? Well, an object is an instance of something, meaning it's a variable. Everything in Python goes down to what's called an object, or a base object. If you've learned Java, you're familiar with this concept. Just think of object as a widget. It's just this thing that exists, and everything grows upon that. The variable's an object. You're an object. Your cat's an object. Your dog's an object. Your computer's an object. Everything's an object at some point. With objects, you can actually manipulate those objects and change them, and that's what we're going to do in the next tutorial, string processing. I hope you found this educational and entertaining. Please visit my website for the source code to this and all other tutorials. It's voidrealms.com. I can't stress it enough. Join the Voidrealms Facebook group. There's like 200 of us in there. It's a lot faster and easier to ask 200 people for help than to email me and wait months, years, decades, centuries for me to respond.


Hi guys, it's Alex. Welcome back to my channel. Today's video is going to be a huge summer clothing try-on haul All of this stuff is from Zaful and I want to thank them for gifting me all of these clothing pieces They're super fun, especially for the summer and very affordable I also wanted to mention that all of these pieces will be linked down below and if you use the code It's Alex. You'll get 18% off of your order. They're always having like sales and really good deals So I think that's pretty much it for this intro Let's just get on to what I picked out the first piece I'm going to talk about is actually one that I'm wearing. It is this cute pink puffy sleeved ribbed top I will put some b-roll on top of this. You can see the outfit. I love this top It's probably one of my favorite pieces just because it's so comfortable. It's such my style and Also, they have a ton of different colors. I love it I think I'm gonna wear it a lot. A plus. I am very happy with this top along with the top as you see in the b-roll I also paired it with these cute white shorts. These are in size.   I absolutely love them another shirt that I paired with the white denim shorts Is this cute blue top? I love what it looked like on the website and again I will overlay some b-roll so you guys can see what it looks like on me This is probably the most cheapest feeling item that I have in everything that I purchased So just keep that in mind. I'm not that impressed with this even though I probably will continue to wear it and it was probably only like $7 So I can't complain too much the look of it and aesthetic of it is really nice But unfortunately like the quality I'm just not feeling the quality there and it's a little tight and I don't even know what size Oh, it's a one size. So it's a little tight and it's hard to get on and off But overall like I can't complain just because of the price So moving on to some of my favorite pieces from Zaffle would be the bathing suits the bathing suits are amazing The quality is very good, especially for like a bathing suit. It's not super thin It does come with the little panty liner in it Obviously, I took it off just because I did the try-on part of this I don't know what it looks like on the camera that I filmed the b-roll on But it definitely looks more like this side My right side that I'm holding up the one that I'm shaking right now. It looks more like this color in person I think it's just the lighting. Yeah. Oh Also, I apologize for looking at the viewfinder when I'm doing the try-on haul portions because I would just I guess Checking myself out. But anyway, I love this bathing suit. I have nothing negative to say about it Also in both of the bathing suits there were little cups in the bra part So if you wanted padding you could have padding. I don't really need or want padding so I removed them So a plus thumbs up to this bathing suit. I absolutely love it. The next bathing suit I'm in love with as well. It is this cute peach color and I think this looks good with my skin tone I'm not sure but it's just this really simple kind of like the other one Bando It's not strapless, but you could make it strapless, but it comes with these really thin straps I think the thin straps add a little pizzazz to it and I used to always wear strapless So this is a little change in pace even though you could completely make it strapless and just like a Bando I love the bottoms because they are high-waisted. The other pair I showed you are not high-waisted It's just like a normal bikini cut, but these are high-waisted and it does hide the pooch a little bit I love the ties on the side. They just tie up there Overall, this is definitely not thin material like it's a very durable material, especially as I'm stretching it I really like this and I was very impressed with the bathing suits Don't judge me completely. Okay, cuz you know Tiktok might be going away. So you guys can have your laughs or cries I will be crying because I love Tiktok. You guys know like tie-dye is the end thing So I've got this moonshirt and I really like it I just thought it was gonna be a little bit bigger I thought it was gonna be longer. I think that's the best way I can describe it I love it still the quality is great that the fabric doesn't feel cheap at all It's a little bit thinner, but the stitching everything is not cheap or whatever I don't think that this is gonna like get holes in it the first time I wash it or fall apart Yeah, this shirt is really cute as you guys can see it's like purple and pink Tie-dye with this sun and moon on it. I don't know Maybe I'll turn this into like a cropped something because it's this awkward length It's too short to wear it like a dress shirt You know what I mean like a dress as a shirt to go along with my Tiktok outfit I got these black sweatpants believe it or not. I don't have like plain black sweatpants I'm surprised these fit me too. I was really nervous about like sizing and stuff with these things But I measured myself, but these are the black sweatpants I got for myself and I think they'd be really good to just wear with like a sports bra or something or I could just wear this with my Tiktok tie-dye shirt. I don't know I just thought that just having a basic pair of sweatpants It would be a really good idea just to have the next few items I picked up were sets meaning like the top and bottom match. So take this one for example We have the striped pants. I love this pattern Kind of reminds me of like going to the boardwalk I don't know if you guys know where that is, but the boardwalk is on Disney property I don't know it just gives me those vibes But this is also similar to my bathing suit with the thin straps up here And then like the bandeau that can go like straight across your boobs pretty much My one issue with these types of sets You can't customize and pick like I want a medium top and a small bottom You just have to pick like medium small extra small large extra large So I had to compromise on some of these sizes. Also, I wanted to say I really like this one I love the design, but the fabric is a little see-through and it's a little thin. So the blue one I'm like, I don't know. I really love the design. It fits me really well I believe so I definitely recommend checking out their sets just because they're super cheap and you get an entire Outfit they're really flowy like when you're wearing this you don't even feel like you have clothes on which is sounds weird But if you're looking for comfort, it's very comfortable. The next set I picked up is probably my favorite It is this green flowered print set and I swear when you're wearing this it literally feels like you're wearing nothing You can feel the breeze outside through these pants because they are pretty thin They are not see-through though So if you're worried that this material and this piece is see-through it is not it's just thin So it feels really light and airy and I really like that This is one that I had to compromise the size on this is a little bit loose for my waist area but as you can see the top is Not kind of small, but like it's small for my chest So I had to go up a size this top ties in the front So as you guys can see the ties right here and I'll lay the b-roll over this But this is so cute, but I swear I feel like my boobs are gonna like pop out of this So I definitely recommend like having a safety pin like to pin it and to hold everything where it needs to be and also probably wear like a Strapless bra or something just because you could really easily get exposed in this just because it is One single fabric and then it ties in the front But overall this style and this outfit and the way it looks so freaking cute And I would definitely wear this for a photo shoot I don't know to go to Disney maybe because it's super light and airy a plus the last and final thing I'm going to share with you guys is this set. It is this brown Newish color set and I love this one. It's definitely not see-through The fabric does not feel cheap and it's also very light So the fabric is thin stuff and being in Florida That's a positive because it gets hot here. This is what the top looks like. I love the way it fits on me I thought the top would be more fitted, but it wasn't it kind of just like sticks out from my boobs So honestly, I like that because it makes my waist look even smaller than it is So I'm definitely not complaining the pants. I was super nervous about I didn't know if they're gonna be too long and too Big when I open them up, but they actually fit pretty well They do have this elastic on the bottom as you guys can kind of see they have elastic So they don't completely like just drag on the floor They might still drag on the floor when I walk, but it's not as bad if there was no elastic You know what I mean? Luckily this came with a belt So here's a detachable belt as you guys can see it came in the package And then there's belt loops so you can tie it, but you can adjust this so you can like pinch it more in So it'll fit your waist which I love. I wish that they did that with all of the other sets So take the green set for example I wish they had like a belt system like this where you could have a separate piece of fabric to tie it around your waist Just like this. I think this would be the perfect outfit for Disney's Animal Kingdom with some cute mouse ears I think that would be such a cute outfit with my white tennis shoes Oh my gosh, this just makes me want to go to Disney even more because I have like more outfits now to wear and everything like that I think that is going to be it for this video If you guys enjoyed it, make sure to give it a thumbs up If you're interested in purchasing any of these pieces everything will be linked down below and also if you use the code It's Alex you will get 18% off of your order Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye


Book 4, chapters 13 and 14 of Joseph Andrews. This LibriBox recording is in the public domain, read by Dennis Sayers. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding. Book 4, chapter 13. The history, returning to the Lady Booby, gives some account of the terrible conflict in her breast between love and pride with what happened on the present discovery. The Lady sat down with her company to dinner, but eat nothing. As soon as her cloth was removed she whispered Pamela that she was taken a little ill, and desired her to entertain her husband, and bowed I dapper. She then went up into her chamber, sent for slip-slop, threw herself on the bed in the agonies of love, rage, and despair. Nor could she conceal these boiling passions longer without bursting. Slip-slop now approached her bed, and asked how her ladyship did, but instead of revealing her disorder, as she intended, she entered into a long incomium on the beauty and virtues of Joseph Andrews, ending at last with expressing her concern that so much tenderness should be thrown away on so despicable an object as fanny. Slip-slop, well-knowing how to humor her mistress's frenzy, proceeded to repeat, with exaggeration if possible, all her mistress had said, and concluded with a wish that Joseph had been a gentleman, and that she could see her lady in the arms of such a husband. The Lady then started from the bed, and, taking a turn or two across the room, cried out with a deep sigh, sure he would make any woman happy. Your ladyship, says she, would be the happiest woman in the world with him, a fig for custom and nonsense. What veils what people say? Shall I be afraid of eating sweet meats, because people may say I have a sweet tooth? If I had a mind to marry a man, all the world should not hinder me. Your ladyship hath no parents to tutor your infections. Besides, he is of your ladyship's family now, and as good a gentleman as any in the country, and why should not a woman follow her mind as well as man? Why should not your ladyship marry the brother as well as your nephew the sister? I am sure, if it was a fragrant crime, I would not persuade your ladyship to it.  I suppose your ladyship hath heard of Joseph's, fitting with one of Mr. Dydaper's servants about her, and his master hath ordered them to carry her away by force this evening. I'll take care they shall not want assistance. I was talking with this gentleman who was below, just when your ladyship sent for me. Oh, go back, says the lady booby, this instant for I expect Mr. Dydaper will soon be going. Do all you can, for I am resolved this wench shall not be in our family. I will endeavor to return to the company, but let me know as soon as she is carried off. Slipslop went away, and her mistress began to arraign her own conduct in the following manner. What am I doing? How do I suffer this passion to creep imperceptibly upon me? How many days are passed since I could have submitted to ask myself the question? Mary of Footman, distraction! I afterwards bear the eyes of my acquaintance, but I can retire from them. Retire with one in whom I propose more happiness than the world without him can give me.  Ha! And do I doubt thus on a Footman? Oh, I despise, I detest my passion.  Doth he not? Yes, he doth prefer her, curse his beauties, and the little low heart that possesses them, which can basely descend to this despicable wench, and be ungrateful-y deaf to all the honors I do him, and can I then love this monster? No, I will tear his image from my bosom, tread on him, spurn him.  No, though I despise him myself, though I would spurn him from my feet, was he to languish at them, no other should taste the happiness I scorn. Why do I say happiness? To me it would be misery to sacrifice my reputation, my character, my rank in life, to the indulgence of a mean and a vile appetite. How I detest the thought! How much more exquisite is the pleasure resulting from the reflection of virtue and prudence than the faint relish of what flows from vice and folly! Wither did I suffer this improper, this mad passion to hurry me, only by neglecting to summon the aids of reason to my assistance, reason which hath now set before me my desires in their proper colors, and immediately helped me to expel them. Yes, I thank heaven and my pride. I have now perfectly conquered this unworthy passion, and if there was no obstacle in its way, my pride would disdain any pleasures, which could be the consequence of so base, so mean, so vulgar! Slipslop returned at this instant in a violent hurry, and with the utmost eagerness cried out, Oh, madam, I have strange news. Tom, the footman, has just come from the George, where it seems Joseph and the rest of them are a jinketeen, and he says there is a strange man who hath discovered that Fanny and Joseph are brother and sister. How, Slipslop, cries the lady in a surprise, I had not time, madam, cries Slipslop, to inquire about particles, but Tom says it is most certainly true. This unexpected account entirely obliterated all those admirable reflections which the supreme power of reason had so wisely made just before. In short, when despair, which had more share in producing the resolutions of hatred we have seen taken, began to retreat, the lady hesitated a moment, and then, forgetting all the purport of her soliloquy, dismissed her woman again, with orders to bid Tom attend her in the parlor, whither she now hastened to acquaint Pamela with the news. Pamela said she could not believe it, for she had never heard that her mother had lost any child, or that she had ever had any more than Joseph and herself. The lady flew into a violent rage with her, and talked of upstarts, and disowning relations who had so lately been on a level with her. Pamela made no answer, but her husband, taking up her cause, severely reprimanded his aunt for her behavior to his wife. He told her, if it had been earlier in the evening, she should not have stayed a moment longer in her house, that he was convinced, if this young woman could be proved her sister, she would readily embrace her as such, and he himself would do the same. He then desired the fellow might be sent for, and the young woman with him, which Lady Booby immediately ordered, and thinking proper to make some apology to Pamela for what she had said, it was readily accepted, and all things reconciled. The peddler now attended, as did Fanny and Joseph, who would not quit her. The parson likewise was induced, not only by curiosity, of which he had no small portion, but his duty, as he perceived it, to follow them, for he continued all the way to exhort them, who were now breaking their hearts, to offer up thanksgivings, and be joyful for so miraculous an escape. When they arrived at Booby Hall, they were presently called into the parlor, where the peddler repeated the same story he had told before, and insisted on the truth of every circumstance, so that all who heard him were extremely well satisfied of the truth. Except Pamela, who imagined as she had never heard either of her parents, mentioned such an accident that it must be certainly false, and except the Lady Booby, who suspected the falsehood of the story from her ardent desire that it should be true, and Joseph, who feared its truth from his earnest wishes, that it might prove false. Mr. Booby now desired them all to suspend their curiosity and absolute belief or disbelief till the next morning, when he expected old Mr. Andrews and his wife to fetch himself and Pamela home in his coach, and then they might be certain of certainly knowing the truth or falsehood of this relation, in which, he said, as there were many strong circumstances to induce their credit, so he could not perceive any interest the peddler could have in inventing it, or in endeavoring to impose such a falsehood on them. The Lady Booby, who was very little used to such company, entertained them all. Viz, her nephew, his wife, her brother and sister, the beau and the parson, with great good humor at her own table. As to the peddler, she ordered him to be made as welcome as possible by her servants. All the company and the parlor, except the disappointed lovers, who sat sullen and silent, were full of mirth, for Mr. Booby had prevailed on Joseph to ask Mr. Didepper's pardon, with which he was perfectly satisfied. Many jokes passed between the beau and the parson, chiefly on each other's dress. These afforded much diversion to the company. Pamela chid her brother, Joseph, for the concern which he expressed at discovering a new sister. She said, if he loved Fanny, as he ought, with a pure affection he had no reason to lament being related to her. Upon which Adams began to discourse on platonic love, whence he made a quick transition to the joys of the next world, and concluded with strongly asserting that there was no such thing as pleasure in this, at which Pamela and her husband smiled on one another. This happy pair, proposing to retire, for no other person gave the least symptom of desiring rest, they all repaired to several beds, provided for them in the same house. Nor was Adams himself suffered to go home, it being a stormy night. Fanny, indeed, often begged she might go home with the parson, but her stay was so strongly insisted on that she, at last, by Joseph's advice, consented. Chapter 14 Containing several curious night adventures in which Mr. Adams fell into many hair-bread escapes, partly owing to his goodness, and partly to his inadvertency. About an hour after they had all separated, it being now past three in the morning, Beau Didepper, whose passion for Fanny permitted him not to close his eyes, but had employed his imagination in contrivances how to satisfy his desires. At last hit on a method by which he hoped to affect it. He had ordered his servant to bring him word where Fanny lay, and had received his information. He therefore arose, put on his breeches and night-cown, and stole softly along the gallery, which led to her apartment, and, being come to the door, as he imagined it, he opened it with the least noise possible, and entered the chamber. A saver now invaded his nostrils, which he did not expect in the room of so sweet a young creature, and which might have probably had no good effect on a cooler lover. However, he groped out the bed with difficulty, for there was not a glimpse of light, and, opening the curtains, he whispered in Joseph's voice, for he was an excellent mimic. Fanny, my angel, I am come to inform thee that I have discovered the falsehood of the story we last night heard. I am no longer thy brother but the lover, nor will I be delayed the enjoyment of thee one moment longer. You have sufficient assurances of my constancy not to doubt my marrying you, and it would be want of love to deny me the possession of thy charms. So saying, he disencumbered himself from the little clothes he had on, and, leaping into bed, embraced his angel as he conceived her with great rapture. If he was surprised at receiving no answer, he was no less pleased to find his hug returned with equal ardour. He remained not long in this sweet confusion, for both he and his paramour presently discovered their error. Indeed, it was no other than the accomplished slip-slop whom he had engaged. But though she immediately knew the person whom she had mistaken for Joseph, he was at a loss to guess, at the representative of Fanny. He had so little seen, or taken notice of this gentlewoman, that light itself would have afforded him no assistance in his conjecture. Bo died upper, no sooner had perceived his mistake, than he attempted to escape from the bed with much greater haste than he had made to it. But the watchful slip-slop prevented him. For that prudent woman, being disappointed of those delicious offerings which her fancy had promised her pleasure, resolved to make an immediate sacrifice to her virtue. Indeed she wanted an opportunity to heal some wounds, which her late conduct had, she feared, given her reputation, and as she had a wonderful presence of mind, she conceived the person of the unfortunate, Bo, to be luckily thrown in her way to restore her lady's opinion of her impregnable chastity.  The Bo attempted to get loose, but she held him fast, and when he struggled she cried out, Murder, Murder, Rape, Robbery, Ruin! At which words parson Adams, who lay in the next chamber, wakeful and meditating on the peddler's discovery, jumped out of bed, and without staying to put a rag of clothes on, hastened into the apartment once the cries proceeded. He made directly to the bed in the dark, where laying hold of the Bo's skin, for Slipslop had torn his shirt almost off, and finding his skin extremely soft, and hearing him in a low voice begging Slipslop to let him go, he no longer doubted, but this was the young woman in danger of ravishing, and immediately falling on the bed and laying hold of Slipslop's chin, where he found a rough beard, his belief was confirmed. He therefore rescued the Bo, who presently made his escape, and then, turning toward Slipslop, received such a cuff on his chops, that his wrath kindling instantly he offered to return the favor so stoutly, that had poor Slipslop received the fist, which in the dark passed by her, and fell on the pillow, she would most probably have given up the ghost. Adams, missing his blow, fell directly on Slipslop, who cuffed and scratched as well as she could, nor was he behindhand with her in his endeavors, but happily the darkness of the night befriended her. She then cried she was a woman, but Adams answered she was rather the devil, and if she was, he would grapple with him, and being again irritated by another stroke on his chops, he gave her such a remembrance in the guts, that she began to roar loud enough to be heard all over the house.  The Lady Booby, who was as wakeful as any of her guests, had been alarmed from the beginning, and being a woman of a bold spirit, she slipped on a nightgown, petticoat, and slippers, and taking a candle, which always burnt in her chamber in her hand, she walked undauntedly to Slipslop's room, where she entered just at the instant as Adams had discovered, by the two mountains which Slipslop carried before her, that he was concerned with a female.  Slipslop, seeing Lady Booby enter the room, cried help, or I am ravished with a most audible voice, and Adams, perceiving the light, turned hastily and saw the Lady as she did him, just as she came to the feet of the bed, nor did her modesty when she found the naked condition of Adams suffer her to approach farther. She then began to revile the parson as the wickedest of all men, and particularly railed at his impudence in choosing her house for the scene of his debaucheries, and her own woman for the object of his bestiality. Poor Adams had before discovered the countenance of his bed-fellow, and now first recollecting he was naked, he was no less confounded than Lady Booby herself, and immediately whipped under the bed-clothes, whence the chaste Slipslop endeavored in vain to shut him out. Then, putting forth his head, on which, by way of ornament, he wore a flannel nightcap, he protested his innocence, and asked ten thousand pardons of Mrs. Slipslop for the blows he had struck her, vowing he had mistaken her for a witch. Lady Booby, then casting her eyes on the ground, observed something sparkle with great luster, which, when she had taken it up, appeared to be a very fine pair of diamond buttons for the sleeves. A little farther she saw lie the sleeve itself of a shirt with laced ruffles. Hey, day, says she, what is the meaning of this? Oh, madam, says Slipslop, I don't know what hath happened. I have been so terrified. Here may have been a dozen men in the room. To whom belongs this laced shirt and jewels, says the lady. Undoubtedly, cries the parson, to the young gentleman whom I mistook for a woman on coming into the room, whence proceeded all the subsequent mistakes, for if I had suspected him for a man I would have seized him had he been another Hercules, though indeed he seems rather to resemble Hylas. He then gave an account of the reason of his rising from bed and the rest till the lady came into the room, at which, and the figures of Slipslop and her galant, whose heads only were visible at the opposite corners of the bed, she could not refrain from laughter, nor did Slipslop persist in accusing the parson of any motions towards a rape. The lady therefore desired him to return to his bed, as soon as she was departed, and then ordering Slipslop to rise and attend her in her own room, she returned herself thither. When she was gone, Adams renewed his petitions for pardon to Mrs. Slipslop, who, with a most Christian temper, not only forgave, but began to move with much courtesy towards him, which he, taking as a hint to begin, immediately quitted the bed and made the best of his way towards his own. But, unluckily, instead of turning to the right, he turned to the left, and went to the apartment where Fanny lay, who, as the reader may remember, had not slept a wink in the preceding night, and who was so hagged out with what had happened to her in the day that, notwithstanding all thoughts of her Joseph, she had fallen into so profound a sleep that all the noise in the adjoining room had not been able to disturb her. Adams groped out the bed, and, turning the clothes down softly, a custom Mrs. Adams had long accustomed him to, trekked in, and deposited his carcass on the bed post, a place which that good woman had always assigned him. As the cat or lapdog of some lovely nymph for whom ten thousand lovers languish, lies quietly by the side of the charming maid, and ignorant of the scene of delight on which they repose, meditates the future capture of a mouse, or a surprise of a plate of breaded butter. So Adams lay by the side of Fanny, ignorant of the paradise to which he was so near, nor could the emanation of sweets which flowed from her breath overpower the fumes of tobacco which played in the parson's nostrils. And now sleep had not overtaken the good man when Joseph, who had secretly appointed Fanny to come to her at the break of day, wrapped softly at the chamber door. Which when he had repeated twice, Adams cried, Come in, whoever you are! Adams thought he had mistaken the door, though she had given him the most exact directions. However, knowing his friend's voice, he opened it, and saw some female vestments lying on a chair, Fanny waking at the same instant, and stretching out her hand on Adams' beard. She cried out, Oh, heavens, where am I? Bless me, where am I? said the parson. Then Fanny screamed. Adams leapt out of bed, and Joseph stood, as the tragedians call it, like the statue of surprise. How came she into my room? cried Adams. How came you into hers? cried Joseph in an astonishment. I know nothing of the matter, answered Adams, but that she is a vessel for me. As I am a Christian, I know not whether she is a man or woman. He is an infidel who doth not believe in witchcraft. They as surely exist now as in the days of Saul. My clothes are bewitched away too, and Fanny's brought into their place. For he still insisted he was in his own apartment, but Fanny denied it vehemently, and said his attempting to persuade Joseph of such a falsehood convinced her of his wicked designs. How, said Joseph in a rage, hath he offered any rudeness to you? She answered she could not accuse him of any more than villainously stealing to bed to her, which she thought rudeness sufficient, and what no man would do without a wicked intention. Joseph's great opinion of Adams was not easily to be staggered, and when he heard from Fanny that no harm had happened, he grew a little cooler. Yet still he was confounded, and, as he knew the house, and that the woman's apartments were on this side as Mrs. Slipslopp's room, and the men's on the other, he was convinced that he was in Fanny's chamber. Assuring Adams, therefore, of this truth, he begged him to give some account how he came there. Adams, then standing in his shirt, which did not offend Fanny as the curtains of the bed were drawn, related all that had happened, and when he had ended Joseph told him it was plain he had mistaken by turning to the right instead of the left. I'd so, cries Adams, that's true, as sure as sixpence, you have hit on the very thing. He then traversed the room, rubbing his hands and begged Fanny's pardon. Assuring her he did not know whether she was man or woman. That innocent creature firmly believed all he said, told him she was no longer angry and begged Joseph to conduct him into his own apartment, where he should stay himself till she had put her clothes on. Joseph and Adams accordingly departed, and the latter soon was convinced of the mistake he had committed. However, whilst he was dressing himself, he often asserted he believed in the power of witchcraft notwithstanding and did not see how a Christian could deny it. End of Book 4, chapters 13 and 14, read by Dennis Sayers in Modesto, California, for LibriVox. Book 4, chapters 15 and 16, of Joseph Andrews. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by Dennis Sayers. Joseph Andrews, by Henry Fielding. Book 4, chapter 15, the arrival of Gaffer and Gammer Andrews, with another person not much expected, and a perfect solution of the difficulties raised by the peddler. As soon as Fanny was dressed, Joseph returned to her, and they had a long conversation together, the conclusion of which was that if they found themselves to be really brother and sister, they vowed a perpetual celibacy, and to live together all their days, and indulge a platonic friendship for each other. The company were all very merry at breakfast, and Joseph and Fanny rather more cheerful than the preceding night. The Lady Booby produced the diamond button, which the bow most readily owned, and alleged that he was very subject to walk in his sleep. Indeed, he was far from being ashamed of his amor, and rather endeavored to insinuate that more than was really true, had passed between him and the fair slipslump. Their tea was scarce over when news came of the arrival of old Mr. Andrews and his wife. They were immediately introduced and kindly received by the Lady Booby, whose heart went now pit-a-pat, as did those of Joseph and Fanny. They felt, perhaps, little less anxiety in this interval than Oedipus himself whilst his fate was revealing. Mr. Booby first opened the cause by informing the old gentleman that he had a child in the company more than he knew of, and, taking Fanny by the hand, told him this was that daughter of his who had been stolen away by gypsies in her infancy. Mr.  These words were a cordial to the two lovers, but had a different effect on Lady Booby. She ordered the peddler to be called, who recounted his story as he had done before. At the end of which old Mrs. Andrews, running to Fanny, embraced her, crying out, She is, she is my child. The company were all amazed at this disagreement between the man and his wife, and the blood had now forsaken the cheeks of the lovers when the old woman, turning to her husband, who was more surprised than all the rest, and having a little recovered her own spirits, delivered herself as follows. You may remember, my dear, when you went a sergeant to Gibraltar, you left me big with child. You stayed abroad, you know, upwards of three years. In your absence I was brought to bed. I verily believe of this daughter, whom I am sure I have reason to remember, for I suckled her at this very breast till the day she was stolen from me. One afternoon, when the child was about a year or a year and a half old, or thereabouts, two gypsy women came to the door and offered to tell my fortune. One of them had a child in her lap. I showed them my hand, and desired to know if you was ever to come home again, which I remember as well as if it was but yesterday. They faithfully promised me you should. I left the girl in the cradle and went to draw them a cup of liquor, the best I had. When I returned with the pot, I am sure I was not absent longer than whilst I am telling it to you, the women were gone. I was afraid they had stolen something, and looked and looked, but to no purpose, and heaven knows I had very little for them to steal.  But, oh, the living, how was I surprised to find, instead of my own girl that I have put into the cradle, who was as fine a fat thriving child as you shall see in a summer's day, a poor sickly boy that did not seem to have an hour to live. I ran out, pulling my hair off, and crying like any mad after the women, but never could hear a word of them from that day to this. When I came back, the poor infant, which is our Joseph there, as stout as he now stands, lifted up its eyes upon me so piteously that, to be sure, notwithstanding my passion, I could not find in my heart to do it any mischief. A neighbor of mine, happening to come in at the same time, and hearing the case, advised me to take care of this poor child, and God would perhaps one day restore me my own. Upon which I took the child up, and suckled it, to be sure, all the world as if it had been born of my own natural body, and as true as I am alive, in a little time I loved the boy all to nothing as if it had been my own girl. Well, as I was saying, time's growing very hard, I having two children, and nothing but my own work, which was little enough, God knows, to maintain them, was obliged to ask relief of the parish, but instead of giving it me, they removed me by Justices Warrants fifteen miles to the place where I now live, where I had not been long settled before you came home. Joseph, for that was the name I gave him myself, the Lord knows whether he was baptized or no, or by what name. Joseph, I say, seemed to me about five years old when you returned, for I believe he is two or three years older than our daughter here, for I am thoroughly convinced she is the same. And when you saw him, you said he was a chopping boy, without ever minding his age. And so, seeing you did not suspect anything of the matter, thought I might in as well keep it to myself, for fear you should not love him, as well as I did. And this is veritably true, and I will take my oath of it before any justice in the kingdom. The peddler, who had been summoned by the Order of Lady Booby, listened with the utmost attention to Gammer Andrew's story, and when she had finished, asked her if the supposititious child had no mark on its breast, to which he answered, Yes, he had as fine a strawberry as ever grew in a garden. This, Joseph acknowledged, and, unbuttoning his coat, at the intercession of the company, showed to them, Well, says Gaffer Andrews, who was a comical sly old fellow, and very likely desired to have no more children than he could keep. You have proved, I think, very plainly that this boy doth not belong to us. But how are you certain that the girl is ours? The parson then brought the peddler forward, and desired him to repeat the story which he had communicated to him the preceding day at the ale house, which he complied with, and related what the reader, as well as Mr. Adams, had seen before. He then confirmed, from his wife's report, all the circumstances of the exchange and of the strawberry on Joseph's breast. At the repetition of the word strawberry, Adams, who had seen it without any emotion, started and cried, Bless me! Something comes into my head! But before he had time to bring anything out, a servant called him forth. When he was gone, the peddler assured Joseph that his parents were persons of much greater circumstances than those he had hitherto mistaken for such, for that he had been stolen from a gentleman's house by those whom they called gypsies, and had been kept by them during a whole year, when, looking on him as in a dying condition, they had exchanged him for the other healthier child, in the manner before related. He said, as to the name of his father, his wife had either never known or forgot it, and that she had acquainted him, he lived about forty miles from the place where the exchange had been made, and which, promising to spare no pains in endeavouring with him to discover the place. But fortune, which seldom doth good or ill, or makes men happy or miserable by halves, resolved to spare him this labour. The reader may please to recollect that Mr. Wilson had intended a journey to the West, in which he was to pass through Mr. Adam's parish, and had promised to call on him. He was now arrived at Lady Booby's gates for that purpose, being directed thither from the parson's house, and had sent in the servant whom we have above seen call Mr. Adam's forth. This had no sooner mentioned the discovery of a stolen child, and had uttered the word strawberry, than Mr. Wilson, with wildness in his looks, and the utmost eagerness in his words, begged to be showed into the room, where he entered without the least regard to any of the company, but Joseph, and embracing him with a complexion, all pale and trembling, desired to see the mark on his breast. The parson followed him, capering, rubbing his hands and crying out, Hic est, quim, quares, inventus est, etc. Joseph, complied with the request of Mr. Wilson, who no sooner saw the mark than abandoning himself to the most extravagant rapture of passion. He embraced Joseph with inexpressible ecstasy, and cried out in tears of joy, I have discovered my son, I have him again in my arms. Joseph was not sufficiently apprised yet to taste the same delight with his father, for so in reality he was. However, he returned some warmth to his embraces, but he no sooner perceived from his father's account the agreement of every circumstance of person, time and place than he threw himself at his feet, and embracing his knees with tears begged his blessing, which was given with much affection, and received with such respect, mixed with such tenderness on both sides, that it affected all present, but none so much as Lady Booby, who left the room in an agony, which was but too much perceived, and not very charitably accounted for by some of the company. Chapter 16 Being the last in which this true history is brought to a happy conclusion. Fanny was very little behind Joseph in the duty she expressed towards her parents, and the joy she evidenced in discovering them. Gammer Andrews kissed her, and said, she was hardly glad to see her, but for her part she could never love anyone better than Joseph. Gammer Andrews testified no remarkable emotion, he blessed and kissed her, but complained bitterly that he wanted his pipe, not having had a whiff that morning. Mr. Booby, who knew nothing of his aunts, fondness, imputed her abrupt departure to her pride, and disdain of the family into which he was married. He was therefore desirous to be gone with the utmost celerity, and now, having congratulated Mr. Wilson and Joseph on the discovery, he saluted Fanny, called her sister, and introduced her as such to Pamela, who behaved with great decency on the occasion. He now sent a message to his aunt, who returned that she wished him a good journey, but was too disordered to see any company. He therefore prepared to set out, having invited Mr. Wilson to his house, and Pamela and Joseph both so insistent on his complying that he at last consented, having first obtained a messenger from Mr. Booby to acquaint his wife with the news, which, as he knew it would render her completely happy, he could not prevail on himself to delay a moment in equating her with. The company were ranged in this manner. The two old people, with their two daughters, rode in the coach. The squire, Mr. Wilson, Joseph, Parson Adams, and the peddler proceeded on horseback. In their way, Joseph informed his father of his intended match with Fanny, to which, though he expressed some reluctance at first on the eagerness of his son's instances, he consented, saying, if she was so good a creature as she appeared, and he described her, he thought the disadvantages of birth and fortune might be compensated. He, however, insisted on the match being deferred till he had seen his mother, in which Joseph, perceiving him positive, with great duty, obeyed him, to the great delight of Parson Adams, who by these means saw an opportunity of fulfilling the church forms, and marrying his parishioners without a license. Mr. Adams, greatly exulting on this occasion, for such ceremonies were matters of no small moment with him, accidentally gave spurs to his horse, which the generous beast, disdaining, for he was of high metal, and had been used to more expert riders than the gentleman who at present bestowed him, for whose horsemanship he had perhaps some contempt, immediately ran away full speed, and played so many antique tricks that he tumbled the parson from his back, which Joseph, perceiving, came to his relief. This accident afforded infinite merryments to the servants, and no less frighted poor Fanny, who beheld him as he passed by the coach, but the mirth of the one and terror of the other were soon determined, when the parson declared he had received no damage. The horse having freed himself from his unworthy rider, as he probably thought him, proceeded to make the best of his way, but was stopped by a gentleman and his servants, who were traveling the opposite way, and were now at a little distance from the coach. They soon met, and as one of the servants delivered Adams his horse, his master hailed him, and Adams, looking up, presently recollected he was the justice of peace, before whom he and Fanny had made their appearance. The parson presently saluted him very kindly, and the justice informed him that he had found the fellow who attempted to swear against him, and the young woman the very next day, and committed him to Salisbury Jail, where he was charged with many robberies. Many compliments having passed between the parson and the justice, the latter proceeded on his journey, and the former, having with some disdain refused Joseph's offer of changing horses, and declared he was as able a horseman as any in the kingdom, remounted his beast, and now the company again proceeded, and happily arrived at their journey's end. Mr. Adams, by good luck, rather than by good riding, escaping a second fall. The company, arriving at Mr. Booby's house, were all received by him in the most courteous and entertained in the most splendid manner after the custom of the old English hospitality, which is still preserved in some very few families in the remote parts of England. They all passed that day with the utmost satisfaction, it being perhaps impossible to find any set of people more solidly and sincerely happy. Joseph and Fanny found means to be upwards of two hours, which were the shortest but the sweetest imaginable. In the morning Mr. Wilson proposed to his son to make a visit with him to his mother, which, notwithstanding his dutiful inclinations and a longing desire he had to see her, a little concerned him, as he must be obliged to leave his Fanny. But the goodness of Mr. Booby relieved him, for he proposed to send his own coach and six for Mrs. Wilson, whom Pamela so very earnestly invited that Mr. Wilson, at length, agreed with the entreaties of Mr. Booby and Joseph, and suffered the coach to go empty for his wife. On Saturday night the coach returned with Mrs. Wilson, who added one more to this happy assembly. The reader may imagine much better and quicker, too, than I can describe, the many embraces and tears of joy, which succeeded after her arrival. It is sufficient to say she was easily prevailed with to follow her husband's example in consenting to the match. On Sunday Mr. Adams performed the service at the Squires Parish Church, the curate of which very kindly exchanged duty, and rode twenty miles to the Lady Booby's parish, so to do, being particularly charged not to omit publishing the bands, being the third and last time. At length the happy day arrived, which was to put Joseph in the possession of all his wishes. He arose and dressed himself in a neat but plain suit of Mr. Booby's, which exactly fitted him, for he refused all finery, as did Fanny likewise, who could be prevailed on by Pamela to attire herself in nothing richer than a white demoty nightgown. Her shift, indeed, which Pamela presented her, was of the finest kind, and had an edging of lace round the bosom. She likewise equipped her with a pair of fine white thread stockings, which were all she would accept, for she wore one of her own short round-eared caps, and over it a little straw hat, lined with cherry-colored silk, and tied with a cherry-colored ribbon. In this dress she came forth from her chamber, blushing and breathing sweets, and was, by Joseph, whose eyes sparkled fire, led to church, the whole family attending, where Mr. Adams performed the ceremony, at which nothing was so remarkable as the extraordinary and unaffected modesty of Fanny, unless the true Christian piety of Adams, who publicly rebuked Mr. Booby and Pamela for laughing in so sacred a place, and on so solemn an occasion. Our parson would have done no less to the highest prince on earth, for though he paid all submission and deference to his superiors and other matters, where the least spice of religion intervened, he immediately lost all respect of persons. It was his maxim that he was a servant of the highest, and could not, without departing from his duty, give up the least article of his honor, or of his cause, to the greatest earthly potentate. Indeed, he always asserted that Mr. Adams at church with his surplus on, and Mr. Adams without that ornament in any other place, were two very different persons. When the church rites were over, Joseph led his blooming bride back to Mr. Booby's, for the distance was so very little, they did not think proper to use a coach. The whole company attended them likewise, on foot, and now a most magnificent entertainment was provided, at which parson Adams demonstrated an appetite surprising as well as surpassing everyone present. Indeed, the only persons who betrayed any deficiency on this occasion were those on whose account the feast was provided. They pampered their imaginations with the much more exquisite repist, which the approach of night promised them, the thoughts of which filled both their minds though with very different sensations, the one all desire, while the other had her wishes tempered with fears. At length, after a day passed with the utmost merriment, corrected by the strictest decency, in which, however, parson Adams, being well filled with ale and pudding, had given a loose to more facetiousness than was usual to him, the happy, the blessed moment arrived when Fanny retired with her mother, her mother-in-law, and her sister. She was soon undressed, for she had no jewels to deposit in their caskets, nor fine laces to fold with the nicest exactness. Undressing to her was properly discovering, not putting off ornaments, for as all her charms were the gifts of nature, she could divest herself of none. How, reader, shall I give thee an adequate idea of this lovely young creature? The bloom of roses and lilies might a little illustrate her complexion, or their smell, her sweetness, but to comprehend her entirely conceive youth, health, bloom, neatness, and innocence in her bridal bed. Conceive all these and their utmost perfection, and you may place the charming Fanny's picture before your eyes. Joseph no sooner heard she was in bed, then he fled with the utmost eagerness to her. A minute carried him into her arms, where we shall leave this happy couple to enjoy the private rewards of their constancy. Rewards so great and sweet that I apprehend Joseph, neither envied, the noblest duke, nor Fanny, the finest duchess. That night, the third day, Mr. Wilson and his wife, with their son and daughter, returned home, where they now live together in a state of bliss scarce ever equaled. Mr. Booby hath with unprecedented generosity given Fanny a fortune of two thousand pounds, which Joseph hath laid out in a little estate in the same parish with his father, which he now occupies, his father having stocked it for him, and Fanny presides with most excellent management in his dairy. Where, however, she is not at present very able to bustle much, being, as Mr. Wilson informs me in his last letter, extremely big with their first child. Mr. Booby hath presented Mr. Adams with a living of one hundred and thirty pounds a year. He at first refused it, resolving not to quit his parishioners, with whom he had lived so long. But, on recollecting, he might keep a curate at this living, he hath been lately inducted into it. The peddler, besides several handsome presents both from Mr. Wilson and Mr. Booby, is, by the latter's interest, made an excise man, a trust which he discharges with such justice that he is greatly beloved in his neighborhood. As for the Lady Booby, she returned to London in a few days, where a young captain of dragoons, together with eternal parties at cards, soon obliterated the memory of Joseph. Joseph remains blessed with his fanny, whom he dotes on with the utmost tenderness, which is all returned on her side. The happiness of this couple is a perpetual fountain of pleasure to their fond parents, and what is particularly remarkable, he declares he will imitate them in their retirement, nor will be prevailed on by any booksellers or their authors to make his appearance in high life.


Right after lunch two minutes to one that's cracking on there. You can see we've got the intermediate set up there Go Tuesday morning back at the Winter breaking up job, but on to the next phase now as you can see we're all load up the gear Drop them off yesterday in the van picked up some more blocks more sand Concrete lentil to make our padstones from She'll walk you through There's yesterday's job. There's the window we did Lensing nice shame about the end closure, but no other way round it bombers all over the place. So And it's took the way on the side so today It's the conservatory but I think we've already told you this Now we're inside a tree properly. That's getting bricked up solid We're coming out through here. This frame's being cut off That's getting built up solid So in first job strip all the steel off Strip that cell off ready to take the block wake up and Then which come in soon to take these frames out for us. We can do that frame ourselves We can make a start on that which can sort this side out for us So that's it. I'll put you somewhere. We can see what we're doing and we get cracking All the floor we're not protecting the floor because the floor is being replaced When the doors come out, it's going to be straight through So those floors are gonna be same gonna be leveled up and the same floors going all the way through So no need to protect the floor. Shame really because it's a very nice floor But then we don't need to protect it. We don't need to protect it. It just makes it easy for us Happy days It is after my break at least I went for an earlier break while dad finished off, but Dad's having his break now. So I thought I'd give you a quick rundown. What's been happening on the time lapse? So As you probably saw Vic came over and give us a big hand getting all that part taken out So that's all ready. Dad's got a profile set up there. So This is dad's side. Oh, he's got an intermediate too. So this is dad's side His task is to get this side in and he's also got my side set up with the profile too So you go Dad was a demolition this bit. So while dad and Vic were demo demo demolishing Well dad and Vic were demolishing. I was getting all the stuff brought around got the sand over got the mix in and Also got some blocks over just in case So the main objective today is to get the bricks in get it all Put in and then if we've got time we can get some blocks in there too, but We're just gonna take it as it comes at the moment and just Just pedal on through so all this crap is all by the way We're not getting rid of this just yet because we're gonna bring a tumbag in and get all that Put in a tumbag and just get it all gone get it all done in one go instead of just Taking buckets and buckets. So There's a little rundown to show you as well. Just to please all the people who are can't seem to see him screw ties and Turn away is right ready. So For the equipped. I just need to get the spot board set out get the but I just need to get the spot board set out get the Mortar Get started. So I'll get you set up somewhere and I'll catch you in a sec It's so deceiving how long all the six of stuff takes half 11 So I'll just crack you over the brick over there. Thank goodness. This one was a bit late I've got around a Vicks strict everything back for us Profile set up there there and they're just nailing to the brick right there. Maybe fit to brick it carry on up from here and Obviously this needed to be now which I've done with the drill to trank it the dust down because there's stuff on the line next door so Wasn't too bad seven bricks all came out with no drama and then I've gone down with the reciprocal down there to open the cavity Because obviously it's a cavity wall now. You don't need the cavity bridges anymore Yeah, all loaded We get me bored out now and get a few brick in before we have Plans to get all the face work up today at least maybe make a start on the block work Hopefully I'll just make a start on the block work this afternoon all the block where you just need to get them in whatever So, yeah, then it's looking good They match perfect with the concert because the concert is new in the house, so they can go unfortunately You've had a bit less I'd have made that panel a bit smaller and they could have put a trim on the side of the door To make joints a bit bit smaller. That's me. I'm your conservatory 14 year on conservators little things like that. We just got a follow-up here, obviously We're gonna look with the three-quarter in the wall here because we're just following this window That's gonna work for it because it works quick already so I'm gonna get cracking so stick your time-lapse and then Catch any bit Right after lunch two minutes to one It's cracking on there. You see we've got the intermediate set up there Give you a bit more detail of you. I've got that going I've got mine around here You know what you do is just drill a bedrock perp out Slotted in set it up It's on an angle because we can't because the seal we can't get I'd rather be here That's the wall because the silver, but we just lean across about any at the top. You're okay and we've got our Our normal blakes are externals. We've got the new bits brick. I Can't remember what they called these rascals But I can't use them today Because I can't slide them onto the profile. I should remember before I set you up So it's just back I'm wrapping around here. I've got three quarter in it. That's fine and then this one works break to the name And we're going up right to the top here going past the windows So yeah a bit behind now because of all the toothing and all the prep work we had to do It always takes longer than you expect So, um, we'll just crack on and see how far we get today. I'd really like to get all the face work done today But we'll see We'll catch a bit. That's one side done The other side dad's been doing verb is about Just passed halfway that so Tomorrow's job is dad's gonna jump back on there. I'm gonna get the blockwork done behind here which shouldn't take too long but all the blocks it on this side, so That's our job tomorrow, and then we're trying to get this done for the afternoon because in the afternoon We're gonna be trying to get and steels tackled in so That's the plan at least so Yeah, we'll catch you tomorrow


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