tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all. We offer you escape. Escape. Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure. You are one of four people trapped in an isolated trading post somewhere in the Yukon territory. The blizzard outside making escape impossible.  Listen now as escape brings you less crutchfield story, judgment day at crippled deer. I think it most unlikely that you ever heard of crippled deer crossing and you would have great difficulty locating it on a map even though the Yukon for the most part is vast and empty. Crippled deer is a trading post, one sprawling pine log building nothing more. But it's been my home and my business for 20 years now and in the course of time I have grown fond of it, even grown fond of the bitter cruelty of the great north. He has found two of the long winters, snowbound, dark, but the trappers and miners have all gone outside and we wait along for the coming of spring. But of one such winter I am not fond. I still wake at times from dreaming of it, lies shuddering and fearful in the darkness. That was the winter of the black snow. When the horror came moaning on the wind and no man could look in another's eyes without shame and loathing and hate. Listen Leclerc, listen to it. I know that sound and the gray skies and the black in the west. It's gonna hit us before tomorrow morning. Oh it's close all right. What do you think Joe? Many wolf track in snow last night, much hunting. They're now asleep. I think maybe one day, maybe two then big blizzard come. All right, two days then. That's still cutting it too close.  Relentious, ain't you fella? Just can't wait. Honey, what smart cook got that we ain't got? You wouldn't know, Higgins. You would know, wouldn't you sweetheart? At least he's got a civil tongue in his head. And he's also got a lot of things you'd give your right arm for, Higgins. He knows how to laugh and live and how to make other people laugh and live. I bet he does. And he knows how to treat a woman. Yeah, any woman the way I hear it.  You will. Higgins, in a day or two not a blizzard comes. Close the trails. And we're here then all of us together the rest of the winter. Hear this one building no way to get out. Tell you once and for all I will not have this kind of feeling.  Can't take a joke. That's enough Higgins. He's got a right to be worried. I worried myself. Marco and Blakey don't have enough grub up there. They get snowed in at that mine. They can possibly last out the winter. And that blizzard is close. Should have come down by now. I was just funny you had a clear. Sorry, Bill. Then watch what you're saying. Now worry. They'll make it all right. Why Marco Moore knows more about this country in a weather than most people. No talk. You sound. What is it Joe. Dog team. Sled coming. Marco must be Marco and Blakey with those binoculars. Maybe we can see them when they come through the gap. He can help me open the window. Might not be them bells. Could be Robertson. Not him. He's too smart a money to get snowed in and this far from Dawson. Come on push. All right here. Let me see now. It's nearly too dark to. There's a sled all right coming out of the gap. It's them. It is them. I can't quite make. No. No it's only one man. Marty. No. No not Robertson. It's Blakey. But Marco is not with him. Blakey coming in alone alone. Two partner gold one come back very bad.  Don't pay any attention to him. Marco is all right. He better be. But Blakey say he better be. They've been partners three seasons now. There's no reason to think anything is wrong.  Marco's dog. But he's right. Is that big husky with a white star. Marco got him two years ago. I don't know. I just don't know. A critical son. Start for a better chance than maybe a glass of two right whiskey. Blakey. Well the clear ugly and never any and Joe what are you having to try. I. Higgins look at that. Sweet art you make up for all of. Go ahead. Where's Marco. Marco. Any here yet. Should he be. Well he pulled out a few days before I did I stayed on till yesterday working the claim.  Well maybe. Maybe it Jackson River. The fact that the post there's got a pair of mighty pretty daughters bell. Better get your dogs out of harness Blakey and get your stuff inside. May start snowing. Yeah it looks like it's building up a good one. Say Blakey. That lead dog. He's no I need. Well I guess you could call it that that's Marco's dog. Marco traded with me. He. He figured I'd be running closer to the storm so I'd need a better lead dog than he would. So he. He traded with me. I see. You see what. What's this all about Jack like it's a matter of life and death. Four of us talk it over while Blakey was unpacking his slip. It didn't add up. We agreed on that. At least it didn't add up the way Blakey was claiming. It was a born liar we knew that and Marco should have been at the trading post by now even if he had stopped off at Jackson River. When Blakey came in we ate and then we waited some more. Still no sound of another dog slip or Marco. Wind seems to be slacking off some. Blizzard ain't far off. Wind always slacks off first. Who's for game of pinocchio. With all of you. You ain't spoke one decent word to me since I got here. Anybody think I was a wolf and sneaked in out of the woods or something. Why don't somebody say something. How'd you get that bruise under your eye Blakey. How'd you get that bruise.  What happened. Did you get in a fight with somebody. I got the bruise from a rock. But I was working in the tunnel we drove some rock fell out of the roof and a piece of it hit me that's how I got it.  What's the matter with you Bell. You're a lion I said you fought with Marco that's how you got it. I fought with nobody why would I fight with him we was partners was Blakey I mean are we still are what did you fight about Blakey. Nothing we didn't fight about nothing. You've got to have some reason Blakey partners don't start fighting over nothing. I mean we wasn't fighting. I don't know why Marco in here I ain't his mother. Maybe he changed his mind he said he was going to be here that's all I know about them why isn't me he left before you did you said so yourself. Where is he Blakey. I don't know.  Yeah what. That right Blakey. We think maybe you killed him. Come off of it.  You're going to tell us about it. About what. There ain't nothing to tell. Look if I had done something why would I come straight here with you're all friends of his where you're expecting where else would you go. Well Jackson River they don't have room to put a man up all right I can add for Dawson or South the White Horse storm too close no time here only place all right answer me one thing. Why why do you think I kill it. Show him the class yeah this might be the reason Blakey. You've been going through my stuff you got no right we did it anyway now what about this I was going to tell you about that. I figured I'd wait and. Make it a kind of surprise surprise. It's rich courts Blakey. Must have opened up quite a pocket it's the richest load between here in McKenzie Bay not rich enough for two Marco didn't even know about it I stumbled on to it after he'd already left that's why I was keeping it for a surprise these two Blakey we are keeping these for a surprise I gave him those gloves and that right and tablet and I needed that pair of socks last winter. Well he told me to pack up anything he'd missed bring it along that proves he was figuring to come here why.   I'm going to turn in. Next morning the barometer dropped again and we knew that Blizzard would hit any minute. All that day we sat huddled around at Woodstove not talking just thinking about Marco and Blakey and just after dark Blakey went outside to settle his dog team by the time he came back in we decided. What are you all staring at? Blakey we're going to give you a trial. A trial for what? Jury of your peers that's the only law we got that's all we likely to have till spring Robertson bypassed as he got on through the Dawson to be the Blizzard. It's just you and us Blakey.  If you got anything to say in your own defense any explanation. I ain't doing no more talking you can't do nothing to me. Whatever you say Blakey. Let's vote.  If he won't talk there ain't no use asked him anything else. I say he killed Marco one vote guilty. Two of course he did it. Joe he killed. That's three guilty and mine makes four. That's unanimous Blakey. And just what do you aim to do about it. Well we got to the side. Well I'll decide for you.  And you know why because of this. Grab them told it. Don't none of you move looks a little different now don't it down Blakey that rifle won't get you out of this. It won't huh. Well I'd say it's made some changes already.  Well how do you feel now. Things is kind of even up a little lengthy. You can't hold as a gunpoint all winter. I ain't figuring to. I'm getting out of here. And none of you better try to stop where you're planning to go. That's my business. But I sure ain't going to stay around here no longer. All of you stay right where you are. He's crazy. Where could he get to know where's maybe but he ain't thought that far all he knows right now is you're going to get away. Well what are you going to do about it. Get your rifles. To go after him. You are listening to judgment day at crippled dear tonight's presentation of escape. Saturday night on CBS Radio's thrilling western series called gun smoke meet United States Marshall Matt Dylan. Marshall Dylan faces another problem this Saturday a problem as real and vital as the old West itself and justice full of action as well. Don't miss the exciting unusual drama on CBS Radio's gun smoke Saturday night at these stations. And now escape and the second act of judgment day at crippled dear. Backing down a fellow man is not a pleasant thing. Even though he's crazed with fear. But there was no choice. The four of us took a moment longer looking at the door that had slammed shut behind Blakey and then ready. Yeah.  Don't let him get away.  He couldn't have got far. He ain't had enough time. Here. Well. Tracks start here. Come. It's pitch dark to me. How can you see any tracks. BC. Come. He seemed to be heading back on the trail. On foot without even snowshoes he's out of his mind. Guilt and fear they do funny things to a man. Leave trail now. Turn this way into the woods. Come. Ron get away from them. That's all he could think about there in the cabin. Crazy clean out of his senses. He's holed up in that storage shed up on the creek bank. I saw the flash. Why don't we leave him there. Let him get snowed in let him start. No no no when a man begins to start he gets dangerous. He has that rifle and there's a whole case ammunition in that shed. He could hang around the cabin and pick us off one at a time. Me go. Me bring him. You think you can slip up on him Joe? You talk. Shoot guns. Make noise. I go. Blakey. Get out of here. Go back to the post. Maybe this will shake him up a little. Dirty murderer. I'll blast him out of there for the last thing I do. You might hit the Indian. Why don't you tell us about it Blakey. About Marco.  Where did you bury him? You mean you left him for the walls? Joe must have got inside. Everything all right. Go trouble. You come. All right. Let's go get him. We dragged him back to the post. We tied his hands together behind his back and locked him in one of the bunk rooms. Then we sat the four of us. We didn't say much. Not looking at one another. Knowing what we had to decide. Putting it off as long as we could. And then it was Belle who had been in love with Marco and was ready not to go to pieces any minute. Finally brought it out in the open. We can't sit here and put it off for a winner. We got to decide what we're going to do.  I suppose you're right. You know I'm right. What's the matter with all of you? What are you afraid of? Big responsibility, Belle. Not from me. Maybe you can feel sympathy for him, but I don't. He don't even count. A hundred of him would make up for Marco. Perhaps you're right, Belle, but what I was thinking. Storm ain't hit yet. As long as there's a chance Robertson will still come. Well, maybe we ought to wait and leave it to him. After all, he's a lurch. He's job. Let Kootenow come now. Blizzard too close. You go very fast to Dawson. No one spend winter here. Joe is right. We can't figure Antonin Blackie over to the police. Robertson's already probably in Dawson. And we can't try to keep him prisoner clear through the winter. I guess we all agree on that. You know what I agree on. So I guess we better make up our minds, huh? Mind's made up now. You know that. Yes, I know that, Belle. Love, my people say.  I don't know, Leclerc. Telling a man in a fight or a battle when you're crazy, that's one thing. But doing it in cold blood like this, well, it ain't easy to face it. It ain't the same. I guess we all feel that way about it. None of us want to do it. It looks to me like we don't have much choice. We don't. And the sooner, the better. I don't know. The mountain might still come. Make up your mind, Higgins, if you're afraid to say so. Well, I ain't that. Do you agree with the rest of us then or don't you? Yeah. I agree. Well, it's settled then. We might as well get it over with him. How are you thinking to do it, Leclerc? Well, hanging, that's the usual way, I guess. That roof pole outside the front of the cabin, we could take him up on the roof and tie the other end of the rope to that pole. And then make him step off. How much of a fault does it take? I only seen it done once down in the States. You wouldn't do that. Have it go wrong. No call from the sufferer anymore. No, we do careful. We plan it all out. Stop talking about it and do it.  We're going to bed. Well, get on with it.  Higgins and me, we cut a piece of rope. Good. I guess we better tell him. You've decided to hang me. You don't even know what you're saying. People don't sit down and decide they're going to hang somebody and expect to get away with it. You can't take the law into your own hands.  Harder for you?  Robertson ain't going to show up. You're out of your minds. We're going to have to drag you, Blakey. You'll drag nobody. A walk. See just how far you're planning to go with this. All right, we go out through the main room. Belle. Belle, you know what they're figuring to do? Yeah. We'll do something. Stop them.  You're different. I wish there were ten of you, Blakey, so they could hang you ten times instead of once. Belle. Get him out of here.  Yeah, come on. She's crazier than the rest of you. It's all crazy.  Watch your step, Leclerc. My crust is freezing. It's slick. Like it ain't real. It really happened. Not to me, anyway. You know, that wind has died down some. Oh, it does just before the blizzard hits. All right, Blakey. Climb up on the roof. Roof? Yeah, and you climb the ladder, you'll want us to help you. I can climb. You go up there by the ridge pole, Blakey. Up there where Joe is standing. Yeah, better let me help you. A lot of snow on the roof. It ain't easy with your hands tied that way. Already roof tied, everything ready. Oh, well, might as well we get on with it, huh? Maybe you better tie it around his neck, Leclerc. Huh? Have you seen it done once? If I can remember. Hey, Blakey, come stand closer to the edge here, huh? Careful, Leclerc. It's dark. Don't slay it. Yeah, that's fine. Right there now. It's a joke, huh? That's what... You're just trying to scare me so we can laugh about it. Oh, still, Blakey. A joke. A real good joke. All right, that's tight. That's very funny. All right. Looks like we're ready. Yeah. Well, you got any last words, Blakey? I guess you better say them now. You jump now. Joe, you jump. Stop pushing. You jump now. We went inside. We left him swinging their figure to take him down on daylight and bury him. I opened a bottle of brandy and we drank some fast in gulps. We needed it because it wasn't easy to do it. Not in cold blood that way. It didn't change much either when we stopped to think about it. It didn't bring Marco back to life, killing Blakey. Even Belle, who was crazy for revenge, was feeling sick. Then we got to thinking about Robertson too, how he never missed stopping by before on his last trip out of Dawson. And then Joe heard it. Dogs. Hey, dogs. Slend come. Robertson. I told you. I told you we ought to wait. Now we're in for it. We got to do something. We got to think of something to tell him and make up a story. Well, with Blakey still hanging out there, what story? Well, we got to do something. All we can do is tell him the truth and hope he sees it the way we did. He's an old timer in the north. He'll understand. We'll make him understand. He'll be snowed in with us here. All of us together for the rest of the winter. We'll make him understand. All right. At least we know it. I think he will. Got a steak and a drink for a hungry man. Michael. Why all the surprise? I promised you I'd be here, didn't I, Bill? Stopped over a couple of days in Jackson River during your gut snowed in. Said today, Blakey make it all right. He was going to leave the mine a couple of days after I did. Under the direction of Norman McDonnell, Escape has brought you Judgment Day at Triple Deer by Les Crutchfield. Starring Lawrence Dobkin with Harry Bartell. 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Good morning, my beautiful people that team keep it clean. What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video. Oh boy yesterday I got some heat the NFL referees got some heat the NFL period got some heat because of the infamous call from the game last night In the Steelers and Patriots In the Steelers and Patriots game the call heard round the world some people agree with it Some people didn't agree with it and but boy that that was a crazy crazy game with a crazy crazy finish It was a great game Like I said yesterday in a post game stream Tony Romo was saying oh, yeah This this is gonna be the game of the year and at first I was like I don't know about all that yet, but it ended up being one of the best games of the year If not the best game of the year So the call that was heard around the world and that a lot of people agree with a lot of people didn't agree with Was the quote-unquote catch the past that Ben Roberts burger through to the tight end Jesse James Where Jesse James? He cut he caught the ball and then while he was stealing the process of catching the ball Hit one of his knees hit the ground and he dove He reached the ball over the goal line and then once the ball hit the ground Then it spun and he didn't have complete control of it A lot of people were saying oh that that should have been a catch it should have been a touchdown But we're gonna go through that and I'm gonna explain why it was not a Touchdown and but first before we get into that. Let me introduce myself me I'm in Graven vids and this is my YouTube channel in Graven vids And I'm a Ravens fan and even though I'm a Ravens fan on this YouTube channel We just enjoy football period and got respect and love for the game So if you're Ravens fan if you a Patriots fan if you a Steelers fan if you a Fender referees If you hate the referees if you like the car if you didn't like the call Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel and turn your notifications on and like my guy Ryan Malis says for every single video make sure you leave a like on the video to make sure you click the thumbs up button Now and you can also follow on Instagram Twitter and snapchat all three are in Graven vids so with the infamous play a Lot of people with their argument was well since since the since the the tight end When he since he extended the ball over the plane after he caught the ball then it should have been a touchdown Completely different situation than the regular than the norm the norm is when the the norm is when the Running back a ball carrier somebody that already has clear possession of the ball when they have clear possession on the ball If it's a running play or if it's a receipt and I explained this last night, too If it's a receiver that caught the ball safe instance like five yards out of bounds caught the ball and then ran across the goal line Run across the pile on then in that case Yeah, it would automatically be a touchdown as soon as the ball crossed the plane as soon as it crossed the plane But for Jesse James the reason that was not a touchdown as soon as he crossed the plane was because he was still in the act of Making catch he made a catch midair He made a catch midair So he was still in the act of completing the catch because he was still up in the air when he caught the ball And while he extended and he was still falling down So since he was still in the act of making a catch. He hadn't made the catch yet That's why that wasn't in completion because as soon as the ball hit the ground as soon as it hit the turf As soon as they hit the turf you saw it spin and he did not have complete control of it So I'm not getting a while so many people are confused So many people and I think a lot of people it may be more so being just biased Because most people with being them with them being stealers fans or whatnot They wanted their team to win understandable understandable. It's the game of football. We all enjoy it But of course they wanted their team to win But that that call was clear man. It was clear Like I said yesterday in a post game. I was wondering like why what are they reviewing? Are they reviewing to see if his knee was down or if he um, if he uh If the ball really crossed the plane before he got contacted or something But then when they showed that replay and they showed the ball spin, I said, oh, okay These officials they got it right. They got it right. They got it right um, so I was I was uh I was proud of I was proud of So shout out to dgp to patriot fame. I'll make sure y'all go to go subscribe to his youtube channel Because he was extra excited after that game I was extra excited after that game and i'm not even a fan of both teams Y'all know those those are my top two teams on my do not like list um, but yeah, man That it was it was clearly not a catch and I felt like I felt like that was It was obvious once they showed the replay. I tweeted it out during the game um And I talked about it in the post game stream and I went through plenty of comments explaining it over and over and over and over and over again People wanted to argue. I just got tired. I said I ain't responding no more. I ain't even gonna do it no more because The nfl showed it. Um, they showed how it wasn't a catch the replay showed that it wasn't a catch The the ball is spun You get you're not controlling something if it's spinning say for instance me right now I'm I'm driving say for instance. I'm driving a car If you see me driving it's probably the best explanation I could ever give to you if you see me driving a car I'm driving and I got the the steering wheel in my hands If I got the steering wheel in my hands, then all of a sudden I hit a turn and the steering wheel spins Do I have control of the steering wheel? No, I don't I don't Even though one of my hands may be on the steering wheel, but if the steering wheel is spinning I do not have control over so that's probably the best explanation I can give to you He did not have control over the football He ain't have control over the football and this is it's as easy and as simple as that That's the best way. I am most clear way. I can explain it to you Just think of anything think for instance if you're holding if you're holding the baby Uh, no, I don't even think about that one but If you're holding whatever If you got if you got control if you're holding something and then you falling down to the ground with it And then it spins once it hits the ground you ain't got control over You ain't got control. So anyway, that's just that Um, and a lot of people were saying both of his knees were down too. No, he only had one knee down Um, while he was falling him by the time the other knee hit the ground He had already lost control of the ball. So that that was I mean that it was a clear call It was a clear call again. I know why people some people upset It was it was their team.  They didn't cheat in this They didn't cheat in that one. It there wasn't no there wasn't no Them going for patriots or whatever them saving pages. They made the right call They made the right call It was more of a fumble than incompletion No, it wasn't because he didn't he never had control in order for it to have been a fumble He would have needed to have control of the ball and then drop the ball He would have needed to establish control of the ball and then dropped it But he never established control of it. He never established control of the ball So that that couldn't have been a fumble It couldn't have been a fumble So it was right. It wasn't in completion and yeah, they they they had it right man. They got it right They definitely got that one right. Um, and there was no I can't say it was no debate because it was obviously debate, but it It was pretty crystal clear man. It was crystal clear and some people were saying I remember when I was doing stream last night Some people were saying oh, you need to stop being biased Who would I be biased towards in that situation? These are stillers and patriots. Who would I be biased toward any one of those two teams in that situation? so, um It it's I seen billichek handing the refs a stack of cash Y'all a while man Y'all a while He caught the ball then brought it into his body then reached out But he never maintained control of the ball. That's what i'm saying He never maintained control of the ball. He caught the ball in midair while he was catching the ball He was in a process of falling to the ground So it's not a completion until you actually fall to the ground while you're maintaining control of the ball He did not do that. He did not do that. He did not do that He caught the ball in midair And while while he was trying to reach out To cross the plane he reached out and across the plane But while he was still falling and still in the process of making the catch He dropped the ball. It spun. Well, he didn't drop it, but it spun and he didn't have full control over it was that was easy That was an easy call man. It was such an easy call man And I know while it was controversial. I think more so the implications of the game um The the atmosphere of the game that the the fact that it was such a close game and that it was coming down to Those final plays. I think that's what made it look even bigger than what it was But it was a good call. It was a Not it's not necessarily a simple call But it was I think was pretty clear cut man. It was pretty clear cut. But anyway Uh, it's also clear cut that i'm pulling up into work now. So I appreciate y'all. Thank you all for watching Thank you very very much. This was fun. Oh last night was even more fun, too though But yeah, uh, if y'all need more explanation of it. I mean, I don't think I got anything left I don't think I have anything left So I think I'm pretty much done explaining this. I'm sure to come up again in another video somewhere down the road Um, probably even this week, but we'll see how it goes. Anyway, appreciate y'all. Thank you And y'all have a great day. I'll see y'all later on


Welcome back to the road to glory It's been all right recently.  You've got the goat. They've got a nice needs They've got very The god loads of boss place me only they're all like come on. We've got a secret weapon That kid is amazing. It does all their eyes dazzle them Blue boy 73 on Twitter nice one. You sort of back it from us There's a there's an excitement. There's an expectation coming up to the cup final Sayers, I've got the cakes in People have already, you know, awning their houses. They've addressed the dress the windows up That's the market stores in town. I've got the classic cup t-shirts going for a fire there all, you know Everyone's by what's amazing, but that's not today today. It's into my land and we've got to go and get three points Let's do it. Come on then. Let's do it Let us do it Come on.  Go on. Go on. Go on. Go on Play of the highest order claim shop.  What a ball. What a volley Lazy it off and goes. 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I thought this is gonna end up in the back of the net The ball wasn't the ball Yeah, come on He wants that oh sharp pointed liners pointed he wore a ball that was from shitty and Trevor Stevens run boom free to believe We've been come on Should make we can do this just concentrate That was patient bill bodies in the box How am I what he's doing there, but she the other of his feet whipped in Trevor Steven great run. It's been coming that to be fair three chances Beat them beat them go on go on whip it in whip it in whip it whip it whip it.  Yeah, I'm tonight, you know a little bit I breathe a room again To be fair they haven't had a sniff since we got out since we got our second. It's a day got a second. Sorry Yeah, I'm coming across I'm coming across I'm coming across your feet staying your feet We don't I'm inside like oh Yes, we're playing clever Watch my football Love it. I said come here. Come here. Kick me come here. Just touch the heat That's what's there Go There's the head that's just a knock down. There's the head of me sharp. Okay defend defend alright. It's V1. It's V1. It's okay pinched it. Oh Referee Yes Folks that's a file as well. It's not it's not so get your head on the on it. Oh Yes Pressing from the front Okay, big great said Great said the gun. Yes, great said the guns the time. No, go Right side side Get up not the goat.  Oh, no What's a shade that is Fingertips Wow Come on. Let's get we can get through this now this little pain even get through it great ad again Grace Deflected the tenneth for three. Yeah I think it was gone your way in Italy. I did that up as the slowest strike ever I think it might have it readies and the brawlers here I'm sure it's with the collection. That's it.  Come on We just keep the ball for a couple of minutes. I bought that. Come on The three Get the card out Oh, what do you insurgent by our way? Yeah, that's so bad Really It's an option. Oh, it's an option. Oh, give it a Ended Not that I With almost no time remaining, intensity at this stage. They're calling on all their resources now. Don't do this to me, Evan. Official showing that there will be three minutes of added time. Only the clean pair of heels. Come on, come on. This is it. Now or never. Universal commitment to attack. All square. Devastated. Absolutely devastated. Eight, 48 points. Four points, that would have been 50 points there. Would be within the current. In the bottom. Well, well. Onto the next one. Chelsea. But no drug bet. Who's been our main tormenter. Now listen, he's on the bench, he can come on and torment us. But if we can start the game well. Listen, they still got Torres, they still got Maloudette, they still got Maté. They've got a lot of talent in there, but no, there's no lampard either. If only we could get it to go late in the game. Yeah, twice. Yeah, it'll be all right. Come on. Chelsea at home in the rain. Let's get this, this or this shot in the arm if we can win this. Big shot in the arm, because these battered us, really battered us. Five, nil, six, one or something like this. Destroyed us at the bridge, y'all. Come on, can we get off to an early good start? We did in the last game. Cutouts all the little mistakes. It's a tackle, great tackle. Come on, you've got it, you've got it. What the... But I'll take it. Ah! Ah! Oh, brilliant. Yep, put it in. Great, well, come on, nil. Got it, got it! Come on. We've seen straight away, we can't get behind these. I don't think these are up for it. Don't ask just 10-3 of us, as if we win a game. Well, they just took us all to town. Come on. Look, one-two, look, one-two. Oh! Great strike. Ah! Goal, Shane. Goal, come on. They're in again. They're in again. And that's Shane Creator, for that. Yeah, good strike. Oh, good save. Come on, thought you'd come to cross himself. It's a really good save. Got it. Get in there. There's the other. Oh, like, this is a great start, I think. We're outscoring, clearly. Come on, we've big-rated this. We're up for it. We're really in big-rated. Good blocking. Come on. Come on. Get in the blood and the fingers. Come on. Come on. These go on set pieces, so let's be... If you don't think it's the way it is. Stay down, Crammage. Crammage. Oh! Don't quite know what Neva's doing. He just wanted to get something.  Full play, full play. That's a ball. That's a ball. That's a ball. Can I angle? Can I angle? No, I can't angle. Come on, referee. Come on. Just got a second bite at it.   What a strike. Come on. Did he really strike this? Got it back in again. It's just about to... Peter needs to dial a bit then. Come on. Come on, pass. It's moments in the box. Get that nail post. Get that nail post. I can't. I just couldn't get it. But you've got it. I haven't. It was terrible. It's all right, it's all right. It's all right, it's all right. I'm going to engage him. Back post, back post. You go back post then. I'm going to engage. Okay, no panic. Panic's over. You missed. Come on. I feel like it's out in control here. Just them silly things, like that. The little break-a-wage. Now the run. All right, all right. You get this, you get this. Shane, the run is sharp and he's in. Great take. Oh! That was going to be his next touch.  That's sharp. Then he's made the run. There's the light, light, light. He should have laid me back. I was in a great strike, but I think he should have laid me back in there. Well, you'll see now. Play then. There's the touch. Sharp get goes, look. Where was Sharp? He was nowhere. You know it. Not a chance. You take your chance. You make the run there yet. That rash lift again. If he knits him on the head, then flies miles over. Go on. Come on, Sharpie. Well, he's done brilliantly. Sharp! He's showing all of his face there. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Go across the key bit. Oh, it's in the grid. I need the post. Oh. Stay on. No! It's a chance. Not a chance on it. That was a penalty. Wait, it's a gold arm only. Oh. Stay big, lads. Stay big. You know what? We play well right off. It's just... It's just typical. Just keep doing what we've done. Yeah, yeah. Sharpie and... These are not that fast at the back. I think that's what we need to just go with. That ball over the top, it really is working. Come on. It's a foul obstruction. It's poor. It's poor, lads. Yeah, we've got it. We've got it down. Oh! Oh, my God. Oh, where'd they go? Sort of off the door, yeah. Where'd they go? Where'd they go? Come on. Stay. Keep doing what we're doing. Keep the hat on the ball. Can you? What a lucky touch. It's a lucky touch. You say unlucky? It's tough. It's got time. Awful. Absolutely awful. Set himself. Take a touch. What? Stay. That was you. You can tell it's me, you're just diving in. Oh, come on. Come on. We can't lose this game. We did it. Spun, Bob, spare pants. Oh, f***. They're free. They're this. They're just running. Bell and Goat. Three absolute wildies in the last three games. That's the most annoying thing. Hope's the most annoying thing. It is the most annoying thing. Hope, don't just... Don't just then, let's get to it. Strike a pose. No! Offside. What's Horace doing? Vogan. Watch him. He wants to get into it. He's Vogan himself off. Box, box, box.  Go on, lad. Hope to be just to the man. He's got to be straight right next to... What's going on? Oh, lovely. Lovely turn. I can't get anyone near you, bruv. Lazy knobbit. They're a bit... Let's give it. Oh, no. This is a chance, come on. We did it. Two apiece. Tell him. What's he doing, referee? I was not ascending off the red card. He went to this knob. No more. It's a Steven. Cheery. I know, but there'll be one Steven bending it in. Put it into that area there. Go. There's the... Go on, that's you. Shake me from behind. Oh, my word. Probe it. Penalty that never won. F***ing dog. Ah! I mean, I don't know what that area is. I hope it won't. Ah, we... So, ninth. Six points off second place. Six games to go. And nine points off the top. Ah, stop mentioning the top, I thought it was you. If we'd won those two games... I know, two games would be second. Go to it. See you later.


Yo, how high can you jump without a single weight? Is the rest and test rule very simple, but something that takes time to develop and will be the key. There's a lot of different jumps you can do to improve your strength by just jumping. A different style of jumping. It's gonna be a little bit more strength because you're not using any speed. A really common question I get all the time is how often do I jump? Do I jump every day? How often do I rest? How do I know when to rest? So I'm gonna try to illuminate just the right amount of jumping. What is good? My name is Steven Selly. I'm five foot 10. And my main goal right now is to get healthy and then dunking games.  So subscribe if you're interested and if not, just take a, enjoy this one, I guess. Yo, so why do I think so many people can get a 40 inch vert with no weights? First of all, cause I did it. I did have strong legs so that might be a caveat which is why I think upper 30s is a definite, is a guarantee that I think anybody can get. But I had a video that had the three steps to jump higher which is strength, speed and 101% rule. So go check that out if you haven't and I wanna elaborate on what you can do without any strength training. So here's the thing, jumping higher is just a very simple formula but hard work. And what it is, is force you apply to the ground. Everybody has a body. I'm pretty sure you have a body. If you have all your limbs, that's even better. It's more weight on your body. So the reason I'm passionate about this is I don't want anybody to have any obstacles. I wanna see you max out your jumping. And when I say just jump from one of my very first vlogs I said just jump. Why do I think that's so important because when you're younger, when you're a little younger than me, I'm 27. If you're 20 or under, you're underdeveloped, you don't need to start putting on heavy squats yet. You can do so much with your body weight and so much with just jumping. And why do I think that's so crucial? Because when you're jumping, you're going down and up with your full body and pushing off the ground, right? If you do that and you try to push yourself, there's so much to be gained. Your muscles are getting activated and if you do it consistently, I've seen so many people get to the upper 30s with no weight training and just consistently jumping. So how consistent do you need to jump? First things first, push yourself. If you're young and you don't have knee pain, push yourself. Try to jump high, document it. Write down how many jumps you have. You can't make progress if you aren't tracking data. That's a huge mistake that I made when I was younger. I wish I tracked everything so that way I can see, okay, my body can handle 20 jumps in one day and the next day I feel like this. And that way you have all this data. If you're not tracking, how are you making progress? When I read that in a book, I think it was the compound effect. I was like, I'm actually not. Because if you're not tracking, yes, you might have mental things where you're touching the rim here. That's a form of tracking. But imagine if you're just jumping into thin air.  Track everything you do.   Do you feel alive? Do you feel explosive? Do you feel energetic? Did you sleep well? Did you eat well? Do you have fuel in your body? There's so many factors, but if you start to track those things, you don't have to write them all down, but you do have to at least take note of your body how you're feeling.  So how do we get more of those days where you wanna fly to the moon and not come back? Okay, so the very basic schedule I'd set for anybody just starting jump training. If you have no consistent schedule at all, is just have one jump day a week. Saturdays, sometimes people have more free time. So let's go with Saturdays.  Just have a full test day where you jump as much as you can without hurting yourself. Start to jump and here's the key. Jump as hard as you can, try to reach something. As soon as you find a peak, just keep raising it until it's just out of your reach. It's the same tip I've given before, but this is now to start tracking it. So if it's just out of your reach, see if you can touch it.  Because if you're jumping for the first time in a long time, or this many times in one session, you're gonna get sore in the middle of the session, but that's good. Record how many jumps you have. That's your first day, congrats. Okay, now just as important as the jump day is the recovery day. How do you feel the next day? What ailments do you have? Do you have any pain? Do you have just soreness? Soreness is okay, stretch that body and then take note this first week of how to recover. Meaning, what I want you to take note of is when do you next feel that energy? Because when you jump like that, that's high intensity, that's a full body movement that's burning your central nervous system, you have to feel when your body's ready to explode again. Is it the very next day? Sometimes you have like placebo energy as I call it. I went so hard one day, my body's like, ooh, that was fun, let's do it again. But I just know my body that I won't jump well that day. How do I know? I've done it for years.  So what is light jump day? I would really highly recommend don't jump the day after, but you can go for two days with a rest day in between.  That would probably be it. So that way you know you're not overloading the tendon. I don't want you to max jump that day. Another rest day and another jump day and see how you feel. See how your full body feels? Are you still sore? Because if you jumped so much, you could still be sore. Your central nervous system could take up to four days to recover. So take note of that. Rest until you feel that explosiveness, that adrenaline come back. Because when you do that, then you start to realize, okay, every four days after a jump session where I max it out, that adrenaline comes back. Because that's your body telling you you're ready for high intense activity. And that's why I wear this. There's different things like your HRV, which is your heart rate variability, which can help you understand when your body's ready to perform at its peak. Okay, so this is the rest and test rule. Very simple, but something that takes time to develop and will be the key to you jumping your highest and making the most out of just jumping with no weights. So rest and test. So you did the first week.  You had some rest days. You feel that you're generally coming back. And then you have another jump day. You might even make progress if you rested, recovered and you stretched and you waited to your adrenaline set at its peak, right? So now you have another jump day. So you had two jump days. Maybe it's on a Thursday, right? So you had Saturday, then Thursday, and you're good to go. Now the next week, push it a little bit more. Either jump a little bit more on your Saturday or jump on Wednesday instead of Thursday. Don't wait as much. See how much your body can handle. But the point is start with just one day, one max jump day and start airing on the side of caution so you don't overload your tendons. You don't develop any pains and you could slowly build on that foundation. Also, there's a lot of different jumps you can do to improve your strength by just jumping. So we're talking about full approach jump because you want to jump your highest. But if you just do one step jumps from right here, that's gonna work on a different style of jumping. It's gonna be a little bit more strength because you're not using any speed. So strength and speed, just like my other video, is what combines to make the best vertical jump. But if you eliminate speed, you're gonna use more strength. So you can use that to try to push yourself on your max jump day. So on your max jump day, don't just do full approach jumps. Do standstill jumps. Do one step jumps, drop step jumps. And that you will see will get stronger over time.  Rest and test is a fantastic method for you to do because if you keep resting and testing, then you're going to make progress. Jump progress is not a straight path up like this. It goes like this.   That's just due to a lot of factors and your body's adapting.  You hit that 101% rule that I always talk about.  Keep that going and see how far you can push that. Push yourself hard, reach. If something's just out of your reach, try to get it just once. Really push yourself. Telling your body you wanna do that will help develop the right muscles in the right way and you could jump so much better than you think. Then it might be time to strength train or it might be technique work, but that's what I wanna help you with. So I hope this was helpful. Please let me know if you hit that 40 without weights. I truly believe so many people can hit at least 38, 39 without any weights. I wanna see you go hard. A lot of it is just going hard, pushing yourself, being disciplined with your body and listening carefully so that way you can build a solid foundation. Let us go! Dunk life. Oh, that's the anthem right there. Trying to make an intro, ending up making an anthem. Jumping, but all that type of stuff, stuff. You're jumping capability. Test your one foot, see, whew.


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Hi, I'm Denshi, and today we're gonna be doing a setup video for 2022. Now this is a yearly tradition on my channel. I just talk about the programs I use and just how I use my computer. So let's get into it as soon as possible. The first thing you're probably dying to know, at least according to most of the comments I seem to get on my channel, is what Linux distribution do I run? What X do I use? What file manager do I use? What color scheme do I use? Now let me just tell you upfront that pretty much 90% of that stuff is irrelevant, but I'll tell you anyways. So first of all, the Linux distribution I use opening up my terminal over here and running Neo Fetch. As you can see, it's Arch Linux. Good old Arch Linux. And yeah, I haven't switched away from it. Now the reason I use Arch Linux is just because the packages are updated and I have access to the AUR. And with the AUR and all those new packages, if I need a piece of software, I can basically install it in one line. But anyways, you're probably wondering about this terminal and this window manager and all that kind of stuff. Now if you're not too familiar with Linux, you're probably wondering what's going on over here. This is a window manager. This is a very minimal desktop kind of environments, desktop system. And long story short, this software is called DWM. And with DWM, as soon as you open any window, it automatically fills the screen. And if you open any other window that splits the screen in two and the window that you just opened gets put into focus on the left side. And every other window on your screen gets delegated to the right side. So if I open an additional window, as you can see, all of these other windows have been delegated to the right side. Now I'm not a complicated person. I don't have all these complicated DWM relationships which a lot of people seem to set up. Instead, I just have a simple set up where you open a window, then you open another, then you open another, then you open another, and stuff like that. I just like having it automatically sorted for me because I don't like to open up a computer and start faffing about putting this over here, putting this over here, and then putting this and forgetting the order in which they are. I like this automatic system.  And if you right click on it, you can change its size. So that's how I'm doing that. That's the binding for that. If you wanna see all the bindings, I'll have all the dot files, all the configuration linked in the description so you can check it out and see for yourself. Or you can download it and try it out and see the kind of stuff that I've customized because of course I've customized the key bindings that is stuff that I like. I can press Windows E to open the file manager. I can press Windows F to open the web browser. I can press Windows T to open the terminal. And there's a few more which I'm gonna talk about but for now those are the main ones. Now speaking of the web browser, you're probably wondering what web browser I use. If you click the three little dots and go to about, I'm using un-Googled Chromium. Now un-Googled Chromium is the same as Google Chrome except every single little bit of Google has been stripped out. All of the elements of Chrome that phone home back to Google have been stripped out. Basically a bunch of bloat really has been removed which makes it faster, you know, there's less latency and of course it's not phoning home to Google which is a benefit when you don't wanna be spied on. I also have Firefox installed, you know, just in case I need to use it. But most of the time I get perfectly by with this. But anyways, the terminal I've already mentioned it before but I use this software called ST or Simple Terminal so I can run ST and launch terminal from within my own terminal. But long story short, there's nothing really fancy going on over here. The most fancy things I've added is the transparency that you can see, you can kind of see the mountains in the background in the terminal as I drag it about. And I've also added the scroll so you can scroll up and down and I've added this thing where you can press page up and page down to decrease and increase the size. And the reason for that is because I do a lot of tutorials. I need to increase and decrease the size of the text so people find it easier to read.  There's a few other things I wanted to touch upon which first of all is the icons you're seeing in the top right corner over here. This is just the OBS icon. That's the fact that I'm recording this. But this over here, you're probably wondering what that is. That is called KeyPass XC. It is a KeyPass software. And if you don't know what KeyPass is, it's a standardized format for password storage. It's encrypted, it's secure and all that good stuff. Long story short though, I've got a few fancy things configured here in KeyPass XC because KeyPass XC gets very, very advanced if you know how to use it. The first thing I'm gonna mention is something quite simple. Now, if you look at the top of my screen, you'll see there's kind of this panel with all of these, you know, different numbers. There's this little icon over here and there's all of this, which, you know, we're gonna touch on that later. I'll leave this text over here. The main thing about this panel is you can use something called D-Menu.  Now, I use D-Menu for two things. First of all, I use this menu over here. This comes built in with DWM. This is a menu to launch all the programs in your system.  And if I wanna name a program like, for example, Chromium, that's the web browser I use, I can type it over there and press Enter. And as you can see, it will launch. So that's the launch programs. But I've also got it configured using a software called keyp-menu. I'll have that link in the description as well to check all of my passwords so I can press Windows and then the O button and it will open up this menu. I can show entries, I can reload the database or I can exit. I'm gonna show the entries. I'm gonna blur them out for pretty obvious reasons. But basically, I can look through all of these and select one of them and then start going through them and say, okay, now that I've selected one of them, I can pick the password, the username, the URL, the title of it and then once I've clicked that, like the username, let me just press Enter. Now that I've done that, that's copied to my clipboard. And if I open up the terminal, I'll copy paste the username here. It's just admin as you can see. But basically you can copy and paste stuff from this password menu. But basically that makes stuff like password management and copying, pasting your passwords much faster because you're doing it with a keyboard. You don't have to go and click about an interface for two hours looking for what you're looking for. But anyways, now that we've covered that, I wanna touch upon a few more things. One big thing I wanna talk about is all of the scripts that I wrote. Now you can download my scripts from my Codebrook page. In fact, let me just open that up. There it is, codebrook.org.denchyscripts. And there's a description of pretty much all of them down here in the read me. So let's run through all of these. Now the first one in order of, you know, in alphabetical order is called CVRT. I've made a video on that in long story short CVR team. It's a program where you can put images or videos or whatever into it and then tell it what format you want to output it in and it will automatically do that for you. Now this software is based on FFMPEG and it works really, really well because it can take regular expressions. You can say, okay, do all of these files and it will do it. Unlike FFMPEG or with FFMPEG, FFMPEG can only take one file at once, which is a bit limiting. So that's why I wrote that script. Emplode is a bit of a more obscure script. I described over here. Basically it's a script that automatically will take any audio file. It will rip the metadata from it and then it will make YouTube videos with it. So like for example, if you have an audio file with like a cover on it, with like an album cover, it will rip that. It will make you a thumbnail for the video and then it will make a video using that cover art like what you see on YouTube. So it's basically a script that copies YouTube's algorithm for making music videos. But after that, the next script we're gonna talk about is something which you'll probably find quite useful. Screenshot is a very, very simple script that you can run, just run it like that. And it will give you this prompt over here. It's a bit laggy because I'm recording. But basically this system over here, this little arrow, this is a program called hacksaw. And you can either select a window by clicking on it like this and then it will take a screenshot or you can run that again and select a region like this for example, and then it will take a screenshot of that. So if we open up our file manager, as you can see the first example, it just took a screenshot of our window because we just ran screenshot and clicked on a window. And the second example, it took a screenshot of our region. Now I've actually done a keyboard binding for that. If you press print screen, it will automatically launch the program. And this is very useful, especially when I'm making videos. So I can just screenshot a part of the screen and just it will automatically output it to my home directory. And I can just use that in a video. So that's been a lifesaver, honestly. That's probably one of the most useful scripts I've done. The next program is a little bit simpler or a little bit less applicable into everyday life. But ticker is a basic program that just takes any cryptocurrency ticker and outputs the price. So if I run ticker XMR for example, it will output the price of Monero. It seems like the price of Monero is increased. Okay, I guess that's good.  The last program I wanna talk about is called YTID or YouTubeID. I wrote this because I was really frustrated trying to get RSS feeds for all my favorite YouTube channels because they were kind of hard to find because not all channels on YouTube have the ID in the URL, especially older channels. And I tend to watch a lot of older channels. So basically what you can do is you can run the script YT-ID and then you give it either a username or a channel URL. So in my case, I would run it with Denshi video. And then I'm gonna go and out, put my ID over here, which is that one, and an RSS feed so you can copy and paste this. Now if you go and edit the YTID file itself, I have it stored in a local bin YTID. There's actually different base URLs you can pick. So if you don't wanna use YouTube, I know not everyone likes to use YouTube.com. You can use different NVIDIA instances and they still dish out RSS feeds. So just uncomment this line and comment out that line and then the script will work with that instead. But I'm not gonna do that. Anyways, now that my scripts are done, I wanna run through one last thing before we end this video. And that's just the basic software I use to make my videos. The video editing software I use is DaVinci Resolve. I've actually made a script just that's called Resolve and all it does is it launches Resolve. The image editing software I use is GIMP. I use this to make all of my thumbnails. I use this to do all of my image editing. I don't draw in GIMP. I tend to draw in Creta, but I haven't drawn in a long while. I count a living in a hotel room and all of my stuff is packed into a box, including my drawing tablet. So I'm kinda stuck at the moment. But for most photo editing and image editing, GIMP is perfectly fine. And finally, the software I use to record everything is OBS right over here. Now it's recording at the moment. I'm running two instances, as you can see from the top over there. This is a fantastic software. I've talked about it a lot. And yeah, it's easy to set up once you get the ropes of it, but it's incredibly powerful. You can do a lot of stuff with OBS. And if I really caught my mind to it, if I actually decided to set out an afternoon, I could probably get a very good streaming setup out of OBS. But anyways, there's one thing which I forgot to address before we end this video. And that's what is this mysterious text at the top of the screen. This is a program called DWM blocks. You can customize it to output anything you want to the screen. And in this case, what I've done is I have all the different time zones that I really care about in the world. Eastern time, Italian time, the Sydney time, and the local GSD, Gulf Standard Time. I also have my battery percentage over here. And there's the system tray, but that's just a DWM modification that's not part of any of this. And I'm probably wondering why I have random time zones in the top of my screen. The reason for this is because I'm terrible at remembering time zones. I'm terrible at working with time and like adding and subtracting hours. It just kind of racks my brain. I can't do it. So I like having the computer do it automatically for me right up here in the corner. Now actually, speaking of the system tray, there's a lot more stuff you can add here. Like maybe you want a battery icon. Maybe you want a volume icon. You can get programs that do that, but I'm not gonna cover that in this video. But anyways, you know, I've been denting. That was my video on my setup. I hope you enjoyed watching it. And I hope you learned something, maybe. All the software I talked about here is linked in the description. All of my top files, all the configs, all that kind of stuff. I hope you enjoyed this video. Goodbye.


CHAPTER 31 HUNTING FOR THE SWAN For some time after Bob's brother left, we heard only the noise of the wind and the sea dashing against the keel. Then footsteps were heard on the deck above, and the grinding of pulleys. A sail was hoisted, then suddenly the boat leaned to one side and began to rock. In a few moments it was pitching heavily on the rough sea. Poor Matea, I said, taking his hand. I don't care, we're saved. He said, what if I am seasick? The next day I passed my time between the cabin and deck. Matea wanted to be left alone. When at last the skipper pointed out, Harfleur, I hurried down to the cabin to tell him the good news. As it was late in the afternoon when we arrived at Harfleur, Bob's brother told us that we could sleep on the boat that night if we wished. When you want to go back to England, he said the next morning, as we wished him goodbye and thanked him for what he had done for us. Just remember that the eclipse sails from here every Tuesday. It was a kind invitation, but Matea and I each of us had our reasons for not wishing to cross the sea again, yet a while. Fortunately, we had our profits from Bob's performance. In all, we had 27 francs and 50 sometimes. Matea wanted to give Bob the 27 francs in payment for the expenses he had been put to for my flight, but he would not accept a penny. Well, which way shall we go? I asked when we landed in France. By the canal, replied Matea promptly, because I have an idea. I believe the swan is on the canal this summer. Now that Arthur's been so ill, and I think we ought to find it, he added. But what about Lisa and the others? I asked. We'll see them while we're looking for Mrs. Milligan. As we go up the canal, we can stop and see Lisa. With a map that we bought, we searched for the nearest river. It was the same. We'll go up the same and ask all the fishermen along the banks if they've seen the swan. It isn't like any other boat, from what you say. And if they've seen it, they'll remember. Before beginning the long journey that was probably ahead of us, I bought some soft soap to clean Cappy. To me, Cappy Yellow was not Cappy. We washed him thoroughly, each one taking it in turns until he was tired out. But Bob's dye was an excellent quality, and when we had finished, he was still yellow. But a shade paler, it would require many shampoos before we could get him back to his original color. Fortunately Normandy is a country of brooks, and each day we gave him a bath. We reached the top of a hill one morning, and Matea spied the same away ahead of us, winding in a large curve. From then on, we began to question the people. Had they seen the swan? A beautiful barge with a veranda. No one had seen it. It must have passed in the night. We went on to ruin, where again, we commenced our questions, but with no better result. We would not be discouraged, but went forward questioning everyone. We had to stop to get money for our food as we went along. So it took us five weeks to reach the suburbs of Paris. Fortunately, upon arriving at Charentonne, we soon knew which direction we had to take. When we put the important question, we received for the first time the answer for which we had longed. A boat which resembled the swan, a large pleasure boat, had passed that way. Turning to the left, it had continued up the scene. We were by the docks. Mathieu was so overjoyed that he commenced to dance amongst the fishermen.  While we played, I questioned the man who had seen the barge. Without a doubt, it was the swan. It had passed through Charentonne about two months ago. Two months? What a lead it had. But what did that matter? We had our legs, and they had the legs of two good horses, and we should join them someday. The question of time did not count. The great thing, the wonderful thing, was that the swan was found. Who was right? cried Mathieu. If I had dared, I would have admitted to Mathieu that I had very great hopes, but I felt that I could not analyze my thoughts, not even to myself. We had no need to stop now and question the people. The swan was ahead of us. We had only to follow the scene. We went on our way, getting nearer to where Lisa lived. I wondered if she had seen the barge as it passed through the locks by her home. At night, we never complained of weariness, and we were always ready the next morning to set out at an early hour. Wake me up, said Mathieu, who was fond of sleeping. And when I woke him, he was never long and jumping to his feet. To economize, we ate hard-boiled eggs, which we bought from the grocers and bread. Yet Mathieu was very fond of good things. I hope Mrs. Milligan has that cook still who made those tarts. He said, apricot tarts must be fine. Haven't you ever tasted them? I've tasted apple puffs, but I've never tasted apricot tarts. I've seen them. What are those little white things? They stick all over the fruit. Almonds. Oh, and Mathieu opened his mouth as though he were swallowing a whole tart. At each lock, we had news of the swan. Everyone had seen the beautiful barge, and they spoke of the kind English lady and the little boy lying on a sofa under the veranda. We drew nearer to Lisa's home. Two days more than one, than only a few hours, we came inside of the house. We were not walking now. We were running. Cappy, who seemed to know where we were going, started ahead at a gallop. He was going to let Lisa know that we were coming. She would come to meet us, but when we got to the house, there was a woman standing at the door, whom we did not know. Where's Madame Suriat? We inquired. For a moment, she stared at us as though we were asking a foolish question. She doesn't live here now. She said at last, she's in Egypt. In Egypt? Mathieu and I looked at one another in amazement. Egypt. We did not know just where Egypt was situated, but we thought, vaguely, it was far away, very far, somewhere beyond the seas. And Lisa, do you know Lisa?  Yes, I know her. She went off with an English lady on a barge. Lisa is on the swan. Were we dreaming? Mathieu and I stared at one another. Are you Remy? Then asked the woman. Yes. Well, Suriat was drowned. Drowned? Yes. He fell into the lock and got caught below on a nail. And his poor wife didn't know what to do. And then a lady that she lived with before she married was going to Egypt. And she told her she would take her as a nurse to look after the children. She didn't know what to do with little Lisa. And while she was wondering, an English lady and her little sick son came along the canal in a barge. They talked. And the English lady, who was looking for someone to play with her son, for he was tired of being always alone, said she would take Lisa along and she would educate the little girl. The lady said she would have doctors who would cure her and she would be able to speak someday. Before they went, Lisa wanted her aunt to explain to me what I was to say to you if you came to see her. That's all. Lisa was to have written to me so that I could give you her address, but I haven't received the letter yet. End of Chapter 31. Chapter 32 of Nobody's Boy. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Nobody's Boy. Hector Malat. Translated by Florence Crew Jones. Chapter 32. Finding a Real Mother. Forward. March. Children. cried Matia after we had thanked the woman. It is not only Arthur and Mrs. Milligan now that we are going after, but Lisa, what luck. Who knows what's in the store for us. We went on our way in search of the swan, only stopping just to sleep and to earn a few sews. From Switzerland one goes to Italy, said Matia softly. If, while running after Mrs. Milligan, we get to Luca, how happy my little Christina will be. Poor dear Matia. He was helping me to seek those I loved, and I had done nothing to help him see his little sister. At Nions, we gained on the swan. It was now only six weeks ahead of us. I doubted if we could catch up with it before it reached Switzerland. And then I did not know that the river Rhone was not navigable up to the lake of Geneva. We had thought that Mrs. Milligan would go right to Switzerland on her boat. What was my surprise when arriving at the next town to see the swan in the distance? We began to run along the banks of the river. What was the matter? Everything was closed up on the barge. There were no flowers on the veranda. What had happened to Arthur? We stopped, looking at each other both with the same sorrowful thoughts.  They had gone in a carriage with a maid. The other servants had followed with the baggage. We breathed again. Where is the lady? Asked Matia. She has taken a villa at Vauvée. But I cannot say where. She is going to spend the summer there. We started for Vauvée. Now they were not traveling away from us. They had stopped and we should be sure to find them at Vauvée if we searched. We arrived there with three sooths in our pockets and the soles off our boots. Vauvée is not a little village. It is a town.  There are so many English in Vauvée. The place is almost like an English pleasure resort. The best way, we thought, was to go to all the houses where they might be likely to live. That would not be difficult. We had only to play our music in every street. We tried everywhere. But yet we could see no signs of Mrs. Milligan. We went from lake to the mountains, from the mountains to the lake, looking to the right and to the left, questioning from time to time people who, from their expression, we thought would be disposed to listen and reply. Someone sent us to a chalet built way up on the mountain. Another assured us that she lived down by the lake. They were indeed English ladies who lived up in the chalet on the mountain and the villa down by the lake, but not our Mrs. Milligan. One afternoon we were playing in the middle of the road. The house before us had a large iron gate. The house behind stood way back in a garden. In the front of it there was a stone wall. I was singing my loudest. I sung the first verse of my Neapolitan song and was about to commence the second when we heard a weak, strange voice singing. Who could it be? What a strange voice! Arthur, inquired Mattia. No, no, it is not Arthur. I have never heard that voice before. But Cappy commenced to whine and gave every sign of intense joy while jumping against the wall. Who is singing? I cried, unable to contain myself. Remy called a weak voice. My name, instead of an answer, Mattia and I looked at one another, thunderstruck. As we stood looking stupidly into each other's faces, I saw a handkerchief being waved at the end of the wall. We ran to the spot. It was not until we got to the hedge which surrounded the other side of the garden that we saw the one who was waving. Lisa, at last we had found her and not far away were Mrs. Milligan and Arthur. But who had sung? That was the question that Mattia and I asked as soon as we found words. I answered Lisa. Lisa was singing. Lisa was talking. The doctors had said that one day Lisa would recover her speech and very probably under the shock of a violent emotion. But I did not think that it could be possible. And yet the miracle had happened and it was upon knowing that I had come to her and hearing me sing the Neapolitan song. I used to sing to her that she had felt this intense emotion and was restored to her voice. I was so overcome at this thought that I had to stretch out my hand to study myself. Where is Mrs. Milligan? I asked. And Arthur, Lisa moved her lips. But she could only utter inarticulate sounds. Then impatiently she used the sign language of her hands. For her time was still clumsy in forming words. She pointed down the garden and we saw Arthur lying in an in-village chair. And one side of him was his mother and on the other, Mr. James Milligan. In fear, in fact, almost terror, I stooped down behind the hedge. Lisa must have wondered why I did so. Then I made a sign to her to go. Go, Lisa, or you'll betray me. I said, come tomorrow here at nine o'clock and be alone. Then I can talk to you. She hesitated for a moment. Then went up the garden. We ought not to wait till tomorrow to Mrs. Milligan, said Mattia. In the meantime, that uncle might kill Arthur. He has never seen me, and I'm going to see Mrs. Milligan at once and tell her there was some reason in what Mattia proposed.  I waited a long time for Mattia. More than a dozen times I wondered if I had not made a mistake in letting him go. At last I saw him coming back, accompanied by Mrs. Milligan. I ran to her, and, seizing the hand that she held out to me, I bent over it. But she put her arms round me and, stooping down, kissed me tenderly on the forehead. Poor, dear child, she murmured with her beautiful white fingers, she pushed the hair back from my forehead and looked at me for a long time. Yes, yes, she whispered softly. I was too happy to say a word. Mattia and I have had a long talk, she said, but I want you to tell me yourself how you came to enter the Driscoll family. I told her what she asked, and she only interrupted me to tell me to be exact on certain points. Never had I been listened to with such attention. Her eyes did not leave mine. When I had finished, she was silent for some time, still looking at me. At last she said, this is a very serious matter, and we must act prudently. Consider yourself as the friend. She hesitated a little as the brother of Arthur. In two hours' time, go to the hotel, the Alps. For the time being, you will stay there. I will send someone to the hotel to meet you. I am obliged to leave you now. Again she kissed me, and after having shaken hands with Mattia, she walked away quickly. What did you tell Mrs. Milligan? I demanded of Mattia. All that I have said to you is a lot more things, he replied. She is a kind lady, a beautiful lady. Did you see Arthur? Only from a distance, but near enough to see that he looked a nice sort of boy. I continued to question Mattia, but he answered me vaguely. Although we were in our ragged street suits, we were received at the hotel by a servant in a black suit in a white tie. He took us to our apartment. How beautiful we thought our bedroom. There were two white beds side by side. The windows opened onto a balcony overlooking the lake. The servant asked us what we would like for dinner, which he would serve us on the balcony if we wished. Have you any tarts? asked Mattia. Yes, rhubarb tarts, strawberry tarts, and gooseberry tarts. Good. Then you can serve these tarts. All three? Certainly. And what entree? What meat? Vegetables. At each offer, Mattia opened his eyes, but he would not allow himself to be disconcerted. Anything. Just what you like. He replied, coolly. The butler left the room gravely. The next day Mrs. Milligan came to see us. She was accompanied by a tailor and a shirt maker who took our measures for some suits and shirts. Mrs. Milligan told us that Lisa was trying to talk and that the doctor had declared that she would soon be cured. Then after having spent an hour with us, she left us, again kissing me tenderly and hands-warmly with Mattia. For four days she came. Each time she was more affectionate and loving to me, yet still with a certain restraint, the fifth day the maid, whom I had known on the swan, came in her place. She told us that Mrs. Milligan was expecting us and that a carriage was at the hotel doors to take us to her. Mattia took a seat in the bro-hem as though he had been used to riding in a carriage all his life. And without any embarrassment and sat down on the velvet cushions, the drive was short. It seemed to me very short, for I was like one in a dream, my head filled with foolish ideas or at least what I thought might be foolish. We were shown into a drawing room. Mrs. Milligan, Arthur, and Lisa were there. Arthur held out his arms. I rushed over to him. Then I kissed Lisa. Mrs. Milligan kissed me. I looked at her. I asked her to explain. She went over to a door and opened it. Then came the grand surprise. Mother Barbara entered. In her arms she carried some baby's clothes, a white cashmere, police, a lace bonnet, some bowling shoes. She had only time to put these things on the table before I was hugging her. While I fondled her, Mrs. Milligan gave an order to the servant. I heard only the name of Milligan, but I looked up quickly. I know that I turned pale. You have nothing to fear, said Mrs. Milligan gently. Come over here and place your hand in mine. James Milligan came into the room, smiling and showing his white pointed teeth. When he saw me, the smile turned to a horrible grimace. Mrs. Milligan did not give him time to speak. I asked for you to come here, she said, her voice shaking, to introduce you to my eldest son, whom I have at last found. She pressed my hand. But you have met him already. You saw him at the home of the man who stole him. When you went there to inquire after his health, what does this mean? Demanded Milligan that the man who is serving a sentence for robbing a church has made a full confession. He has stated how he stole my baby and took it to Paris and left it there. Here are the clothes that my child wore. A married woman who brought up my son. Do you wish to read this confession? Do you wish to examine these clothes? James Milligan looked at us as though he would like to have strangled us. Then he turned on his heels. At the threshold, he turned round and said, We'll see what the courts will think of this boy's story. My mother, I may call her so now, replied quietly, You may take the matter to the courts. I have not done so because you are my husband's brother. The door closed. Then, for the first time in my life, I kissed my mother as she kissed me. Will you tell your mother that I kept the secret? Said Mattia, coming up to us. You knew all, then? I told Mattia not to speak of all this to you, said my mother. For though I didn't believe you were my son, I had to have certain proofs and get Madame Barbara in here with the clothes. How unhappy we should have been after all, we had made a mistake. We have these proofs and we shall never be parted again. You will live with your mother and brother. Then, pointing to Mattia and Lisa, and, she added, with those whom you loved when you were poor. End of chapter 32. Chapter 33 of Nobody's Boy. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information please visit LibriVox.org. Nobody's Boy, Hector Malat. Translated by Florence Crew Jones. Chapter 33 The Dream Come True. Years have passed. I now live in the home of my ancestors, Milligan Park. The miserable little wanderer who slept so often in a stable was heir to an old historical castle. It was a beautiful old place about 20 miles west of the spot where I jumped from the train to escape from the police. I live here with my mother, my brother, and my wife. We are going to baptize our first child, Little Mattia. Tonight all those who were my friends in my poorer days will meet under my roof to celebrate the event and I am going to offer to each one as a little token, a copy of my memoirs which for the last 6 months I have been writing and which today I have received one of all our friends is a surprise for my wife. She will see her father, her sister, her brothers, her aunt. Only my mother and brother are in the secret one will be missing from this feast. Alas, poor master, poor Vitalis, I could not do much for you in life but at my request my mother has had erected a marble tomb and placed your bust, the bust of Carlo Balzini upon the tomb. This bust is before me now as I write and often while pinning my memoirs, I have looked up and my eyes have caught yours.   A few steps behind my mother comes an old woman dressed like a French peasant and carrying her arms a little baby robed in a white police.  Arthur brings me a copy of The Times and points to a correspondence from Vienna which states that Matia, the great musician has completed his series of concerts and that, in spite of his tremendous success in Vienna, he is returning to England to keep an engagement which cannot be broken. I did not need to read the article before, although all the world now calls Matia the Chopin of the violin. I have watched him develop and grow when we were all three working together under the direction of our tutors. Matia made little progress in Latin and Greek, but quickly outstripped his professors in music. Espinozas, the barber musician of Mendez, had been right. A footman brings me a telegram. See, very rough. Alas, have very ill, but managed to stop on my way at Paris for Christina. Shall be with you at four o'clock. Sin carriage to meet us. Matia, mentioning Christina, I glanced at Arthur, but he turned away his eyes. I knew that Arthur loved Matia's little sister, and I knew that in time, although not just yet, my mother would become reconciled to the match. Birth was not everything. She had not opposed my marriage, and later, when she saw that it was for Arthur's happiness, she would not oppose his. Lisa comes down the gallery. My beautiful wife, she passes her arm round my mother's neck. Mother, dear, she said, there is some secret afoot, and I believe that you are in the plot. I know if it is a surprise and you are in it. It is something for our happiness, but I am none the less curious. Come, Lisa, you shall have the surprise now. I said, as I heard the sound of carriage wheels on the gravel outside. One by one our guests arrive, and Lisa and I stand in the hall to welcome them. There is a Mr. Equin, Aunt Catherine, Annette Annette, and a bronze young man who has just returned from a botanical expedition and is now the famous botanist, Benjamin Equin. Then comes a young man and an old man. This journey is doubly interesting to them for when they leave us, they are going to Wales to visit the mines. The young one is to make observations which he will carry back to his own country to strengthen the high position which he now holds in the true year mine. And the other to add to the fine collection of minerals which the town of Arces has honored him by accepting. It is the old professor and Alexis. Lisa and I greet our guests. The landow dashes from the opposite direction with Arthur Christina and Matia.  The gentleman holding the reins is Bob, now very prosperous, and the man by his side is his brother who helped me to escape from England. When the baptismal feast is over, Matia draws me aside to the window. We have often playful to indifferent people, he said. Let us now, on this memorable occasion play for those we love. To you there is no pleasure without music. Eh? Matia? Old boy? I said, laughing. Do you remember how you scared our cow? Matia grinned from a beautiful box lined with velvet. He drew out an old violin which would not have brought to Frank's if he had wished to sell it. I took from its coverings a harp the wood of which had been washed so often by the rain. That it was now restored to its original color. Will you sing your Neapolitan song? Asked Matia. Yes, for it was that which gave Lisa back her speech. I said, smiling at my wife as stood beside me. Our guests drew round in a circle. A dog suddenly came forward. Good old Cappy. He is very old and deaf, but he still has good eyesight. From the cushion which he occupies he has recognized the harp and up becomes limping for the performance. In his jaws he holds a saucer. He wants to make the rounds of the distinguished audience. He tries to walk on his two hind paws, but strength fails him. So he sits down gravely and with his paw on his heart he bows to the society. Our song ended. Cappy gets up as best he can and makes the round. Each one drops something into the saucer and Cappy delightedly brings it to me. It is the best collection he has ever made. There are only gold and silver coins, 170 francs. I kiss him on his cold nose as in the other days, and the thought of the miseries of my childhood gives me an idea. I tell my guests that this sum shall be the first subscription to found a home for little street musicians. My mother and I will donate the rest. Dear madam, said Mattia, bending over my mother's hand, let me have a little share in this good work. The proceeds of my first concert will be added to Cappy's collection and Cappy barked approval. End of chapter 33 End of Nobody's Boy by Hector Malat, translated by Florence Crew Jones.


Hey stampers, welcome to another week of watch it weekly Wednesday I'm Beth Olson part of the creative Jill stamping team and I am so excited to show you this technique today It's kind of a technique that's sweeping the crafting world and I wanted to try my hand at it And put my spin on it because isn't that kind of what we do? We all share ideas and then kind of make it our own which I love this particular trend I think I've been seeing people call it the PC paper trend or they'll take their scraps And they'll make a little background with it. So let me show you something that I've created I made this little card so you take just different pieces of scraps of your designer series paper and You cut them into strips and then you piece them all together and it makes kind of this really fun background So with stamping up we carry designer series paper, which they typically come in 12 by 12 Pieces or we do offer some that are 6 by 6 inch pieces, but our 12 by 12 inch pieces are so great They come in us in a package that coordinate with 12 different papers But the great thing is they're double-sided typically with our collections we have a more graphic piece of paper on one side and then a more monochromatic piece of paper on the other side so you can kind of choose what works best for your Project and go from there, and I love that it gives you so many options in your creations So this is a very themed set of designer series paper But when you cut them down to teeny little strips You can kind of change the look of it because it just becomes more color and texture and patterns Let me show you what I mean. So here is that first card that I showed you This is actually from the birthday designer series paper set Which is why I use this cute saying this calls for confetti the thing I really liked about this designer series paper were the colors They're fun and bright and they make it look like a party. So I thought they worked really well together for that I chose this card off of the saying wishing you much happiness today and always and I thought of that for a wedding And so I picked some designer series paper that was softer and a little more subtle And I thought looked a little romantic and that's what I created the card around This is actually the same designer series paper that I showed you from the pack earlier the Parisian blossoms But you can't really tell These bigger pieces are these smaller pieces. It's more of the colors that work together Here's another one. I created some of you might recognize this paper as a Valentine's Day paper That was themed for this year from Stampin' Up But I think it can be used for a friendship card or for any other card Just because the colors work so well together and I paired it with a more neutral color Background and it just kind of makes it nice and fun. You can't tell that it was Valentine's Day paper Here's my final project a little box I can't thank you enough the paper that I chose for this box We actually carried in our holiday catalog from this past year It is a Christmas paper, but I don't think you can tell I think it works so well The colors work really cute together and it just goes really well in this little box So let me show you how I like to do this technique and I can give you some little tips and tricks that hopefully will help you to Recreate this fun trendy technique. Here are the papers that I used on my little box These are from a Christmas paper There's even little ornaments on one side that we carried last year. I've cut them Into little strips here and I also have a white piece of cardstock that I'm going to layer them on This cardstock measures three by three inches and I cut my strips to three and a quarter inches I have two different sizes I have a quarter of an inch and half an inch that I've cut from each of my little pieces I like in my creating I found that using three different designer series paper Wasn't overwhelming, but it gave you just enough of a different pattern that it worked really well You could try with more or with less you'll just get a different look, but I'm sure it'll be just as cute so I took my adhesive and put a strip down and Then I take a little strip of paper and layer it on there and then more Adhesive and kind of layer them. You can make them a little skiddy wampus and overlap and it looks different every time you do it And just keep laying it down as you go Okay, and you'll cover the whole entire thing and then you'll trim off the back so that it's nice and straight And you'll get all these little confetti pieces all over the place. It's only fun if you make a mess, right? So it'll look like this and then I chose to use the so sentimental stamp set from Stampin' Up I really like this one. It had a variety of sayings in it for different occasions and their different sizes, which is kind of fun For all of the cards today, I use this but Any occasion stamp set that you have will also work with this and any designer series paper that you have will work for this So if you're a crafter like we are I know you have scraps lying around and this is such a great project for scraps So I hope I've inspired you today to create your own PC paper scrap Projects and I'd love to see them. So go ahead and comment below if you want to share your project with us Thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great day, and I'll see you next week for another watch it