21 The Peterkins were in quite a muddle, for them, about the Carnival of Authors to be given in Boston. As soon as it was announced, their interests were excited, and they determined that all the family should go. But they conceived a wrong idea of the entertainment, as they supposed that everyone must go and cost him. Elizabeth Eliza thought their lessons in the foreign languages would help them much in conversing in character. As the Carnival was announced early, Solomon John thought that there would be time to read up everything written by all the authors, in order to be acquainted with the characters they introduced. Mrs. Peterkin did not wish to begin too early upon the reading, for she was sure she should forget all that the different authors had written before the day came. But Elizabeth Eliza declared that she should hardly have time enough, as it was to be acquainted with all the authors. She'd given up her French lessons after taking six for one of time, and had, indeed, concluded she had learned in them all she should need to know of that language. She could repeat one or two pages of phrases, and she was astonished to find how much she could understand already of what the French teacher said to her, and he assured her that when she went to Paris she could at least ask the price of gloves, or some other things she would need, and he taught her too how to pronounce garçon in calling for more. Agamemnon thought that different members of the family might make themselves familiar with different authors.  Mr. Peterkin had read the Pickwick papers, and Solomon John had actually seen Mr. Longfellow getting into a horse car. Elizabeth Eliza suggested that they might ask the Turk to give lectures upon the Arabian Nights. Everybody else was planning something of the sort to raise funds for some purpose, and she was sure they ought not to be behindhand. Mrs. Peterkin approved of this. It would be excellent if they could raise funds enough to pay for their own tickets to the carnival, then they could go every night. Elizabeth Eliza was uncertain. She thought it was usual to use the funds for some object. Mr. Peterkin said that if they gained funds enough they might arrange a booth of their own and sit in it, and take the carnival comfortably. But Agamemnon reminded him that none of the family were authors, and only authors had booths. Solomon John indeed had once started upon writing a book, but he was not able to think of anything to put in it, and nothing had occurred to him yet. Mr. Peterkin urged him to take one more effort. If his book could come out before the carnival he could go as an author and might have a booth of his own and take his family. But Agamemnon declared it would take years to become an author. You might indeed publish something, but you had to make sure that it would be read. Mrs. Peterkin, on the other hand, was certain that libraries were filled with books that never were read, yet authors had written them. For herself she had not read half the books in their own library, and she was glad there was to be a carnival of authors that she might know who they were. Mr. Peterkin did not understand why they called them a carnival, but he supposed they should find out when they went to it. Mrs. Peterkin still felt uncertain about costumes. She proposed looking over the old trunks in the garret. They would find some suitable dresses there, and these would suggest what characters they should take. Elizabeth Eliza was pleased with this thought. She remembered an old turban of white wool muslin in an old band box, and why should not her mother wear it? Mrs. Peterkin supposed that she should then go as her own grandmother. Agamemnon did not approve of this. Turbans are now worn in the East, and Mrs. Peterkin ought to go in some Eastern character. Solomon drawn thought she might be Cleopatra, and this was determined by Solomon John. Among the treasures found were some old bonnets of large size with waving plumes. Elizabeth Eliza decided upon the largest of these. She was tempted to appear as Mrs. Columbus, as Solomon John was to take the character of Christopher Columbus, but he was planning to enter upon the stage in a boat, and Elizabeth Eliza was a little afraid of seasickness, as he had arranged to be a great while finding the shore. Solomon John had been led to take this character by discovering a coal-hod that would answer for a helmet. Then, as Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, he could use the phrase as an Italian he had lately learned of his teacher. As the day approached, the family had their costumes prepared. Mr. Peterkin decided to be Peter the Great. It seemed to him a happy thought, for the few words of Russian he had learned would come in play, and he was quite sure that his own family name made him kin to that of the great Tsar. He studied up the life in the Encyclopedia, and decided to take the costume of a shipbuilder. He visited the Navy Yard and some of the docks, but none of them gave him the true idea of dress for shipbuilding in Holland or St. Petersburg. But he found a picture of Peter the Great representing him in a broad-brimmed hat, so he assumed one that he found at a costumers, and with Elizabeth Eliza's black waterproof was satisfied with his own appearance. Elizabeth Eliza wondered if she could not go with her father in some Russian character. She would have to lay aside her large bonnet, but she had seen pictures of Russian ladies with firm muffs on their head, and she might wear her own muff. Mrs. Peterkin as Cleopatra wore the turban with a little row of false curls in front, and a white embroidered muslin shawl crossed over her black silk dress. The little boys thought she looked much like the picture of their great-grandmother, but doubtless Cleopatra resembled this picture as it was all so long ago, so the rest of the family decided. Agamemnon decided to go as Noah. The costume was represented in one of the little boys' arcs was simple. His father's red-blind dressing gown turned inside out, permitted it easily. Elizabeth Eliza was now anxious to be Mrs. Shem and make a long dress of yellow flannel, and appear with Agamemnon in the little boys. For the little boys were to represent two doves in a raven. There were feather dusters enough in the family for their costumes, which would then be complete with their India rubber boots. Solomon John carried out in detail his idea of Christopher Columbus. He had a number of eggs boiled hard to take in his pocket, proposing to repeat through the evening the scene of setting the egg on its end. He gave up the plan of the boat, as it must be difficult to carry one into town, so he contended himself by practicing the motion of landing by stepping up on the chair. But what scene could Elizabeth Eliza carry out? If they had an arc with Mrs. Shem, she might crawl in and out of the roof constantly if it were not too high. But Mr. Peterkin thought it is difficult to take an arc in the town of Solomon John's boat. The evening came, but with all their preparations, they got to the hall late. The entrance was filled with a crowd of people, and as they stopped to the cloakroom to leave their wraps, they found themselves entangled with a number of people in costume coming out from a dressing room below. Mr. Peterkin was much encouraged. They were thus joining the performers. The band was playing the wedding march as they went upstairs to a door of the hall, which opened upon one side of the stage. Here a procession was marching up the steps of the stage, all in costume and entering behind the scenes. We are just in the right time, whispered Mr. Peterkin to his family. They are going upon the stage. We must fall into line.  Some words from one of the managers made Peterkin understand the situation. We are going to be introduced to Mr. Dickens, he said. I thought he was dead, exclaimed Mrs. Peterkin trembling. Authors live forever, said Agamemnon in her ear. At this moment they were ushered upon the stage. The stage manager glared at them as he waited their names for introduction, while they came up all unannounced, a part of the program not expected, but he uttered the words upon his lips, great expectations, and the Peterkin family swept upon the stage with the rest. Mr. Peterkin costumed as Peter the Great, Mrs. Peterkin as Cleopatra.  Across the stage, in face of all the assembled people, then, following the rest down the stairs on the other side, in among the audience they went, but into an audience not dressed in costume. There were Ann Maria, Bromwick, and the Osborns, all the neighbors, all as natural as though they were walking the streets at home, though Ann Maria did wear white gloves. I had no idea you were to appear in characters at Ann Maria to Elizabeth Eliza, to what booth do you belong? We are no particular authors, said Mr. Peterkin. Oh, I see a sort of variety's booth, said Mr. Osborn. What is your character? asked Ann Maria of Elizabeth Eliza. I have not quite decided, said Elizabeth Eliza. I thought I should find out after I came here. The Marshal called us great expectations. Mrs. Peterkin was at the summit of bliss. I have shaken hands with Dickens, shakes claimed, but she looked round to ask the little boys if they too had shaken hands with a great man, but not a little boy could she find. They had been swept off in Mother Goose's train, which had lingered on the steps to see the Dickens' reception, after which the procession of characters and costume had closed. At this moment they were dancing round the Barbary Bush in a corner of the balcony in Mother Goose's quarters, their feather-dusters gaily waving in the air. But Mrs. Peterkin, far below, could not see this, and consoled herself with a thought they should all meet on the stage in the grand closing tableau. She was bewildered by the crowds which swept her hither and thither. At last she found herself at the Whittier booth and sat a long time calmly there. As Cleopatra she seemed out of place, but as her own grandmother she answered well with its New England scenery. Solomon John wondered about landing in America whenever he found a chance to enter a booth. Once before an admiring audience he set up his egg in the center of the get-de booth which had been deserted by its committee for the larger stage. Egg and Memnon frequently stood in the background of scenes in the Arabian Nights. It was with difficulty that the family could be repressed from going on the stage whenever the bugle sounded for the different groups represented there. Elizabeth Eliza came near appearing in the Dream of Fair Women at its most culminating point. Mr. Peterkin found himself with the cricket on the hearth in the Dickens booth. He explained that he was Peter the Great, but always in the Russian language which was never understood. Elizabeth Eliza found herself interned in all the booths. Every manager was puzzled by her appearance and would send her to some other, and she passed along, always trying to explain that she had not yet decided upon her character. Mr. Peterkin came and took Cleopatra from the Whittier booth. I cannot understand, he said, why none of our friends are dressed in costumes and why we are. I rather like it, said Elizabeth Eliza, though I should be better pleased if I could form a group with someone. The strains of the minuet began. Mrs. Peterkin was anxious to join the performance. It was the dance of her youth, but she was delayed by one of the managers on the steps that led to the stage. I cannot understand this company, he said, distractedly. They cannot find their booths at another. That is the case, said Mr. Peterkin, relieved to have it stated. Perhaps you'd better pass into the corridor, said a polite marshal. They did this in walking across found themselves in the refreshment room. This is the booth for us, said Mr. Peterkin. Indeed it is, said Mrs. Peterkin, sinking into a chair exhausted. At this moment, two doves and a raven appeared, the little boys who had been dancing eagerly in Mother Goose's establishment, and now came down for ice cream. I hardly know how to sit down, said Elizabeth Eliza, for I am sure Mrs. Shem never could. Still, as I do not know if I am Mrs. Shem, I will venture it. Happily, seats were to be found for all, and they were soon arranged in a row, calmly eating ice cream. I think the truth is, said Mr. Peterkin, that we represent historical people, and we ought to have been fictitious characters in books. That is, I observe what the others are. We shall know better another time. If we only ever get homes, said Mrs. Peterkin, I shall not wish to come again. It seems like being on the stage, sitting in a booth, and it is so bewildering, Elizabeth Eliza not knowing who she is, and going round and round in this way. I am afraid we shall never reach homes at Agamemnon, who had been silent for some time. We may have to spend the night here. I find I have lost our checks for our clothes in the cloakroom. Spend the night in a booth in Cleopatra's turban, exclaimed Mrs. Peterkin. We should like to come every night, cried the little boys. But to spend the night, repeated Mrs. Peterkin. I conclude the carnival keeps up all night, said Mr. Peterkin. But never to recover our cloaks, said Mrs. Peterkin, could not the little boys look round for the checks on the floor. She began to enumerate the many valuable things they might never see again. She had worn her large fur cape of Stone Martin, her grandmothers, that Elizabeth Eliza had been urging her to have made into a foot-rub. Now how she wished she had. And there were Mr. Peterkin's new over-shoes, and Agamemnon had brought an umbrella, and the little boys had their mittens. Their India rubber boots, fortunately, they had on in the character of birds. But Solomon John had worn a fur cap, and Elizabeth Eliza a moth. Should they lose all those valuables entirely and go home in the cold without them? No, it would be better to wait till everybody had gone and then looked carefully over the floors for the checks. If only the little boys could know where Agamemnon had been, they were willing to look. Mr. Peterkin was not sure as they would have time to reach the train. Still, they would need something to wear, and he could not tell the time. He had not brought his watch. It was a Waltham watch, and he thought it would not be in character for Peter the Great to wear it. At this moment, the strains of Homesweet Home were heard from the band, and people were seen preparing to go. All can go home, but we must stay, said Mrs. Peterkin gloomily as the well-known strains floated in from the larger hall. A number of marshals came to the refreshment room, looked at them, whispered to each other, as the Peterkin sat in a row. Can we do anything for you? asked one at last. Would you not like to go? He seemed eager they should leave the room. Mr. Peterkin exclaimed they could not go, as they had lost the checks for their wraps and hoped to find their checks on the floor when everybody was gone. The marshall asked if they could not describe what they had worn, in which case the loss of the checks was not so important, as the crowds were now almost left, and it would not be difficult to identify their wraps. Mrs. Peterkin eagerly declared she could describe every article. It was astonishing how the marshals hurried them through the quickly-deserted corridors, how gladly they recovered their garments. Mrs. Peterkin indeed was disturbed by the eagerness of the marshals. She feared they had some pretext for getting the family out of the hall. Mrs. Peterkin was one of those who would never consent to be forced to anything. She would not be compelled to go home, even with strains of music. She whispered her suspensions to Mr. Peterkin. But Agamemnon came hastily up to announce the time, which he had learned from the clock in the large hall. They must leave directly if they wish to catch the latest train, as there was barely time to reach it. Then indeed was Mrs. Peterkin ready to leave. If they should miss the trains, if she should have to pass the night in the streets in her turban. She was the first to leave the way, and panting the family followed her, just in time to take the train as it was leaving the station. The excitement was not yet over. They found in the train many of their friends and neighbors returning also from the carnival, so they had many questions put to them which they were unable to answer. Still, Mrs. Peterkin's turban was much admired, and indeed the whole appearance of the family, so that they felt themselves much repaid for their exertions. But more adventures awaited them. They left the train with their friends, but as Mrs. Peterkin and Elizabeth Eliza were very tired, they walked very slowly. When Solomon John and the little boys were sent on with the pass key to open the door. They soon returned with a startling intelligence that it was not the right key, and they could not get in. It was Mr. Peterkin's office key. He had taken it by mistake, or he might have dropped the house key in the cloakroom of the carnival. Must we go back, said Mrs. Peterkin, in an exhausted voice? More than ever did Elizabeth Eliza regret that Agamemnon's envisioning keys had failed to secure a patent. It was impossible to get into the house, for Amanda had been allowed to go and spend the night with a friend, so there was no use in ringing those little boys who tried it. We can return to the station, said Mr. Peterkin. The rooms will be warm on account of the midnight train. We can at least think what we shall do next. At the station was one of their neighbors proposing to take the New York midnight train, for it was now after eleven, and the train went through it half past. I saw lights at the locksmiths over the way as I passed, he said. Why do not you send over for the young man there? You can get your door open for you. I never would spend the night here. Solomon John went over to the young man, who agreed to go up to the house as soon as he had closed the shop, fit a key, and opened the door, and come back to them on his way home. Solomon John came back to the station, for it was now cold and windy in the deserted streets. The family made themselves as comfortable as possible by the stove, sending Solomon John out occasionally to look for the young man. But somehow Solomon John missed him. The lights were out in the locksmith's shop, so he followed along to the house, hoping to find him there. But he was not there. He came back to report. Perhaps the young man had opened the door and gone on home. Solomon John and Agamemnon went back together, but they could not get in. Where was the young man? He had lately come to town and nobody knew where he lived, for on the return of Solomon John and Agamemnon, it had been proposed to go to the house of the young man. The night was wearing on. The midnight train had come and gone. The passengers who came and went looked with wonder at Mrs. Peterkin nodding in her turban as she sat by the stove on a corner of the long bench. At last the station master had to leave for a short rest. He felt obliged to lock up the station, but he promised to return it in early hours to release them. Of what use did Elizabeth arise if we cannot even then get into our own house? Mr. Peterkin thought the matter appeared bad if the locksmith had left town. He feared the young man might have gone in and helped himself to spoons and left. Only they should have seen him if he had taken the midnight train. Solomon John thought he appeared odd-anced. Mr. Peterkin only ventured to whisper his suspicions as he did not wish to arouse Mrs. Peterkin, who still was nodding in the corner of the long bench. Morning came at last. The family decided to go to their home, perhaps by some effort in the early daylight they might make an entrance. On the way they met with the night policeman returning from his beat. He stopped when he saw the family. Ah, that accounts, he said. You were all out late last night, and the burglars took occasion to make a raid on your house. I called a lively young man in a very act, box of tools in his hands. If I had been a minute late he would have made his way in. The family then tried to interrupt to explain. Where is he, explained Mr. Peterkin? Safe in the lock-up, answered the policeman. But he is the locksmith, interrupted Solomon John. We have no key, said Elizabeth Eliza. If you have locked up the locksmith, we can never get in. The policeman looked from one to the other, smiling slightly when he understood the case. The locksmith, he exclaimed. He is a new fellow, and I did not recognize him and rested him. Very well. I will go and let him out, but he may let you in. And he hurried away, surprising the Peterkin family with what seemed like insulting screams of laughter. It seems to me a more serious case than it appears to him, said Mr. Peterkin. Mrs. Peterkin did not understand it at all. Had burglars entered the house, did the policemen say they had taken spoons? And why did he appear so pleased? She was sure the old silver teapot was locked up in the closet of their room. Slowly the family walked towards the house, and almost as soon as they, the policeman appeared with the released locksmith and a few boys from the street who happened to be out early. The locksmith was not in a very good humor, and took ill the jokes of the policeman. Mr. Peterkin, fearing he might not consent to open the door, pressed into his hand the large sum of money. The door flew open, the family could go in. Amanda arrived at the same moment. There was hope of breakfast. Mrs. Peterkin staggered toward the stairs. I shall never go to another carnival, she exclaimed. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale Chapter 22 The Peterkins at the Farm Yes, at last they had reached the seaside. After much talking into liberation, and summer after summer the journey had been constantly postponed. But here they were at last at the old farm, so called where seaside attractions had been praised in all the advertisements. In here they were to meet the Sylvesters, who knew all about the place, cousins of Anne Maria Bromwick. Elizabeth Eliza was astonished not to find them there, though she had not expected Anne Maria to join them till the very next day. The preparations had been so elaborate that at one time the whole thing had seemed hopeless, yet here they all were. Their trunks, to be sure, had not arrived, but the wagon was to be sent back for them, and wonderful to tell they had all their hand baggage safe. Agamemnon had brought his portable electric machine and apparatus and the volumes of encyclopedia that might tell him how to manage it. And Solomon John had his photograph camera. The little boys had used their India rubber boots as portmanteaus, filling them to the brim and carrying one in each hand, a very convenient way for traveling they considered it. But they found on arriving, when they wanted to put their boots directly on for exploration round the house, that it was somewhat inconvenient to have to begin to unpack directly, and scarcely room enough could be found for all the contents in the small chamber allotted to them. There was no room in the house for the electrical machine and camera. Elizabeth Eliza thought the other borders were afraid of the machine going off, so an outhouse was found for them, where Agamemnon and Solomon John could arrange them. Mrs. Peterkin was much pleased with the old-fashioned porch and low-studded rooms, though the sleeping room seemed a little stuffy at first. Mr. Peterkin was delighted with the admirable order in which the farm was evidently kept. From the first moment he arrived, he gave himself to examining the well-stocked stables and barns, and the fields and vegetable gardens, which were shown to him by a highly intelligent person, a Mr. Atwood, who devoted himself to explaining to Mr. Peterkin all the details of methods in the farming. The rest of the family were disturbed at being so far from the sea, when they found it would take nearly all the afternoon to reach the beach. The advertisements had surely stated that the old farm was directly on the shore and that sea bathing would be exceedingly convenient, which was hardly the case if it took you an hour and a half to walk it. Mr. Peterkin declared there were always such discrepancies between the advertisements of seaside places and the actual facts, but he was more than satisfied with the farm part and was glad to remain and admire it while the rest of the family went to find the beach, starting off in a wagon large enough to accommodate them, Agamemnon driving the one horse. Solomon John had depended upon taking the photographs of the family in a row on the beach, but he decided not to take his camera out the first afternoon. This was well as the sun was already setting when they reached the beach. If this wagon were not so shaky, said Mrs. Peterkin, we might drive over every morning for our bath. The road is very straight and I suppose Agamemnon can turn on the beach. We should have to spend the whole day about it, said Solomon John in a discouraged tone, unless we can have a quicker horse. Perhaps we should prefer that, said Elizabeth Eliza a little gloomily, to staying at the house. She had been a little disturbed to find there were not more elegant and fashionable looking borders at the farm and she was disappointed that the Sylvesters had not arrived, who would understand the ways of the place. Yet again she was somewhat relieved, for if their trunks did not come to the next day as was feared, she should have nothing but her traveling dress to wear, which would certainly answer for tonight. She had been busy all the early summer in preparing her dresses for this very watering place, and as far as appeared she would hardly need them and was disappointed to have no chance to display them. But of course when the Sylvesters and Anne Maria came all would be different, but they would surely be wasted on the two old ladies she had seen, and on the old men who had lounged about the porch, there surely was not a gentleman among them. Agamemnon assured her she could not tell at the seaside as gentlemen wore their exercise dress and took a pride in going around in shocking hats and flannel suits. Doubtless they would be dressed for dinner on their return. On their arrival they had been shown to a room to have their meals by themselves and could not decide whether they were eating dinner or lunch. There was a variety of meat, vegetables, and pie that might come under either name. But Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin were well pleased. I had no idea we should have really farmed fair, Mrs. Peterkin said. I have not drunk such a tumbler of milk since I was young. Elizabeth Eliza concluded they ought not to judge from a first meal, as evidently their arrival had not been fully prepared for, in spite of the numerous letters that had been exchanged. The little boys were, however, perfectly satisfied from the moment of their arrival, and one of them had stayed at the farm, declining to go to the beach, as he wished to admire the pigs, cows, and horses. And all the way over to the beach the other little boys were hopping in and out of the wagon, which never went too fast, to pick long mull and stalks, for whips to urge on the reluctant horse with, or to gather huckleberries, with which they were rejoiced to find the fields were filled, although, as yet the berries were very green. They wanted to stay longer on the beach when they finally reached it, but Mrs. Peterkin and Elizabeth Eliza insisted upon turning directly back, as it was not fair to be late to dinner that very first night. On the whole the party came back cheerful yet hungry. They found the same old men in the same costume standing against the porch. A little seedy, I should say, said Solomon John. Smoking pipes at Agamemnon, I believe that is the latest style. The smell of their tobacco is not very agreeable, Mrs. Peterkin was forced to say. There seemed the same uncertainty on their arrival as to where they were to be put, and as to their meals. Elizabeth Eliza tried to get into conversation with the old ladies who were wandering in and out of a small sitting room, but one of them was very deaf and the other seemed to be a foreigner. She discovered from a moderately tidy maid by the name of Martha, who seemed a sort of fact totem, that there were other ladies in their rooms too much of invalids to appear. Regular bed-written Martha had described them, which Elizabeth Eliza did not consider respectful. Mr. Peterkin appeared coming down the slope of the hill behind the house very cheerful. He had made the tour of the farm and found it in admirable order. Elizabeth Eliza felt it time to ask Martha about the next meal and ventured to call it supper as a sort of compromise between dinner and tea. If dinner were expected she might offend by taking it for granted that it was to be tea, and if they were unused to a late dinner they might be disturbed if they had only provided a tea. So she asked what was the usual hour for supper and was surprised when Martha replied, the lady must say, nodding to Mrs. Peterkin, she can have it just when she wants and just what she wants. This was an unexpected courtesy. Elizabeth Eliza asked when the others had their supper. Oh, they took it long time ago, Martha answered. If the lady will go out into the kitchen she can tell what she wants. Bring us in what you have, said Mr. Peterkin, himself quite hungry. If you could cook us a fresh slice of beef steak that would be well. Perhaps some eggs, murmured Mrs. Peterkin. Scrambled, cried one of the little boys. Fried potatoes would not be bad, suggested Agamemnon. Couldn't we have some onions? asked the little boy who had stayed at home and had noticed the odor of onions when the others had their supper. A pie would come in well, said Solomon John, and some stewed cherries, said the other little boy. Martha fell to letting the table and the family was much pleased when in the course of time all the dishes they had recommended appeared. Their appetites were admirable and they pronounced the food the same. This is truly Arab hospitality, said Mr. Peterkin as he cut his juicy beef steak. I know it, said Elizabeth Eliza, whose spirits began to rise. We have not even seen the host and hostess. She would indeed have been glad to find someone to tell her when the Sylvesters were expected and why they had not arrived. Her room was in the wing, far from that of Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin, and near the aged deaf and foreign ladies, and she was kept awake for some time by perplexed thoughts. She was sure the lady from Philadelphia under such circumstances would have written to somebody, but ought she to write to Anne Maria or the Sylvesters? And if she did write, which had she better write to? She fully determined to write the first thing in the morning to both parties, but how should she address her letters? Would there be any use in sending to the Sylvester's usual address, which she knew well by this time merely to say they had not come? Of course the Sylvesters would know they had not come. It would be the same with Anne Maria. She might indeed enclose her letters to their several postmasters. Postmasters were always so obliging and always knew where people were going to and where to send their letters. She might at least write two letters to say that they, the Peterkins, had arrived and were disappointed not to find the Sylvesters. And she could add that their trunks had not arrived, and perhaps their friends might look out for them on their way. It really seemed a good plan to write. Yet another question came up as to how she would get her letters to the post office as she had already learned it was at quite a distance and in a different direction from the station where they were to send the next day for their trunks. She went over and over these same questions kept awake by the coughing and talking of her neighbors the other side of the thin partition. She was scarcely sorry to be aroused from her uncomfortable sleep by the morning sounds of guinea hens, peacocks, and every other kind of foul. Mrs. Peterkin expressed her satisfaction at the early breakfast and declared she was delighted with such genuine farmed sounds. They passed the day much as the afternoon before reaching the beach only in time to turn round to come back for their dinner which was appointed at noon. Mrs. Peterkin was quite satisfied.  Elizabeth Eliza was not so well pleased. A wagon had been sent to the station for their trunks which could not be found. They were probably left at the Boston station or Mr. Atwood suggested might have been switched off upon one of the white mountain trains. There was no use to write any letters as there was no way to send them. Elizabeth Eliza now almost hoped the Sylvester's would not come for what should she do if the trunks did not come in all her new dresses? On her way over to the beach she had been thinking what she should do with her new fillard and cream colored sarah if the Sylvester did not come and if their time was spent in only driving to the beach and back. But now she would prefer that Sylvester's would not come till the dresses and the trunks did. All she could find out from inquiry and returning was that another lot was expected on Saturday. The next day she suggested suppose we take our dinner with us to the beach and spend the day. The Sylvester's and Anne Maria then would find them on the beach where her traveling dress would be quite appropriate. I am a little tired she added of going back and forward over the same road but when the rest come we can vary it. The plan was agreed to but Mr. Peterkin and the little boys remained to go over the farm again. They had an excellent picnic on the beach under the shadow of a ledge of sand. They were just putting up their things when they saw a party of people approaching from the other end of the beach. I am glad to see some pleasant looking people at last said Elizabeth Eliza and they all turned to walk toward them. As the other party junior she recognized Anne Maria Bromwick and with her were the Sylvester's so they proved to be for she had never seen them before. What you have come in our absence exclaimed Elizabeth Eliza and we have been wondering what had become of you cried Anne Maria. I thought you would be at the farm before us said Elizabeth Eliza to Mr. Sylvester to whom she was introduced. We have been looking for you at the farm he was saying to her but we are at the farm said Elizabeth Eliza and so are we said Anne Maria. We have been there two days said Mrs. Peterkin and so have we at the old farm just at the end of the beach said Anne Maria. Our farm is old enough said Solomon John. Whereabouts are you asked Mr. Sylvester. Elizabeth Eliza pointed to the road they had come. A smile came over Mr. Sylvester's face he knew the country well. You mean the farmhouse behind the hill at the end of the road he asked? The Peterkins all nodded affirmatively. Anne Maria could not restrain herself as broad smiles came over the faces of all the party. Why that is the poor house she exclaimed. The town farm Mr. Sylvester explained deprecatingly. The Peterkins were silent for a while. The Sylvester's tried not to laugh. There certainly were some disagreeable old men and women there said Elizabeth Eliza at last but we have surely been made very comfortable Mrs. Peterkin declared. A very simple mistake said Mr. Sylvester continuing his amusement. Your trunks arrived all right at the old farm two days ago. Let us go back directly said Elizabeth Eliza. As directly as our horse will allow said Agamemnon. Mr. Sylvester helped them into the wagon. Your rooms are awaiting you he said why not come with us? We want to find Mr. Peterkin before we do anything else said Mrs. Peterkin. They rode back in silence till Elizabeth Eliza said do you suppose they took us for poppers? We have not seen any they said Solomon John except Mr. Atwood. At the entrance of the farm yard Mr. Peterkin met them. I have been looking for you he said I have just made a discovery. We have made it too said Elizabeth Eliza we are in the poor house. How did you find it out Mrs. Peterkin asked of Mr. Peterkin. Mr. Atwood came to me puzzled with a telegram that had been brought to him from the station which he ought to have got two days ago. It came from Mr. Peters whom they were expecting here this week with his wife and boys to take charge of the establishment. He telegraphed to say he cannot come till Friday. Now Mr. Atwood had supposed we were the Peterses whom he had sent for the day we arrived not having received this telegram. Oh I see I see said Mrs. Peterkin and we did get into a muddle at the station. Mr. Atwood met them at the porch. I beg pardon he said I hope you have found it comfortable here and shall be glad to have you stay till Mr. Peters family comes. At this moment wheels were heard Mr. Sylvester had arrived with an open wagon to take the Peterkins to the old farm. Martha was waiting within the door and said to Elizabeth Eliza beg pardon miss for thinking you as one of the inmates and putting you in that room. We thought it so kind of Mrs. Peters to take you off every day with the other gentleman that looked so wandering. Elizabeth Eliza did not know whether to laugh or to cry. Mr. Peterkin and the little boys decided to stay at the farm till Friday but Agamemnon and Solomon John preferred to leave with Mr. Sylvester and to take their electrical machine and camera when they came for Mr. Peterkin. Mrs. Peterkin was tempted to stay another night to be wakened once more by the guinea hens but Elizabeth Eliza bore her off. There was not much packing to be done. She shouted goodbyes into the ears of the deaf old lady and waved her hand to the foreign one and glad to bid farewell to the old men with their pipes leaning against the porch. This time she said it is not our trunks that were lost but we as a family said Mrs. Peterkin. End of chapter 22 End of the book The Peterkin Papers


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Risk management Hey, what's up money geeks mr. V here welcome to another video guys so in today's video I want us to take a look at when to you know cut your losses and run away a lot of people lose money They're trading so the question is at what point do you decide to to stop? And get out and not blow up your account because you're hoping so wouldn't take a look at that into this video But before we get started guys if you're new to the channel We talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So if that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell so you don't miss out on new content So most people blow up the account they training because they they're hoping that or it's gonna bounce back So before you get into any trade for day traders in my experience again I'm not a professional day trader everything I'm telling you guys is my personal experience that I've actually learned over the years So when you get into a trade you have to have what I call your exit strategy Don't go in there without a strategy because that's gonna lead to you blowing up your account really really fast And then the one thing I want to tell you right now is that hoping when you're day trading doesn't work Don't hope that it would it would bounce back No, if it doesn't go your way cut your losses and run and sometimes you would cut your losses too quick And then you sit back and be like I wish I'd stayed in that trade just a few minutes Oh, and then the next thing is the other one would be like man I wish I had exited that trade, you know a long time ago because it just keeps going down So you need to develop an exit strategy So take for instance, if you go into a trade and let's say you buying a stock at $10 a piece And you're looking at all the numbers you anticipating that that thing will squeeze up and maybe break 10 50 11 So you can make some profit and then your exit strategy would be if you think if you think I go in at $10 if He if he just kind of goes down to 9 50 get me out.   That is for status If you are just starting this is where stop loss comes into play in with Weeble That's where I especially like the platform is that you can actually set that stop loss Upfront so if I'm going to a trade you can say I'm going in At $10, you know set my limit order to 10 and then my stop loss at 9 50 in my tech profit I'd say 11 or 12 depending on your analysis and then so and the good thing is you can always move that Stop loss and you can move that take profit is less of the stock moves up to $11 and you stop was at 9 50 now I can move my stop loss to say 10 50 because of that point I'm secure some profit. I don't know if that makes sense So imagine that you you go into a trade your stop loss is 10 is 9 50 And your take profit is say $12 the stock goes from 10 to 11. So you're up a dollar a share So now what I'll do is I'll move my stop loss from 9 50 to 10 50 because at that point I'm securing 50 cents a share in profit And that is the best place that you want to be as a day trader So if you get to the point where you can secure that profit boy, oh boy, it is beautiful and you're just sitting there looking It's like men But with Weibo after our trading doesn't allow you to use stop loss and take profit So you can only do that during a normal hours. That's 8 30 to 3 p.m. Center time my time.  So If you have any questions with this particular question because that's something that a lot of people have been asking me And and I've seen people complain about it's like oh, I blew up my account and now I have to restart all over again So I Prevent this and you help yourself just stop this headache from not from happening by Making sure that you have an exit strategy Again, if you're using Weibo you set what you want your exit strategy to be if it's $50 you go in and say, okay If it if it's 50 cents, excuse me, you go in and say, okay, I don't want to lose 50 cents Per share and is in this in this trade. So you go in if it drops down 50 cents like get me out You take your take profit you can say I want to make a dollar 50 or two dollars And if it goes up and then you move your stop loss and just Gradually follow that trade along the way. So that would be the strategy that I would say you can actually implement It's going to help you a ton So if you are looking to get started again, Weibo is a platform that I currently use Right now they're doing a promotion where they're giving out two free stacks For you to get started just opening an account and depositing a hundred dollars So I'm going to put a link in the description. You can definitely go check them out Again, if you have any questions Or comments, just leave them in the comment section below I do answer all the questions and comments that I get here on the channel So don't hesitate to drop any comments and as always guys Stay motivated You


Hello everyone, welcome to another NARC survivor live video. So we did an interview yesterday with a diagnosed self-aware covert narcissist, which was very interesting to do. Quite a long interview as well, it went on for over two hours, but it was very engaging and it attracted a lot of viewers. It looks like it's something that people want to see.  So as a result of the success of last night's video, I think there may be similar videos to come in the future. So keep an eye out for that. But anyway, into tonight's message, this is most definitely a very big video today. When the narcissist knows you're gone forever and if this sounds good to you, please hit that thumbs up button down below so that it will help the YouTube algorithm to get this very important message out there to other survivors as well. It will take you two seconds. Just hit the thumbs up button to show your support. Thank you. When the narcissist knows you're gone forever, you have been manipulated, lied to, future faked by this narcissist for such a long time. They pulled the wall over your eyes, you were in a trance, you were under a spell. This could have been for months, years, even decades in some cases, especially if you were dealing with a narcissistic parent. This could have been most of your life, that you were manipulated, used, exploited, lied to, future faked. All of these things were done to you and you were gaslighted the entire time. You didn't know what was happening to you. And then one day you start to wake up, you start to realize what is going on.   You could have had a good life with all of that time. You could have done something with it instead of remaining loyal and devoted to someone who was just manipulating and abusing you. Because that's what was happening. And when you get to this point where you're really done, it's because you see through it. You realize that the entire time you were being manipulated and of course you know that if someone's been manipulating you for all of that time, they clearly don't have any plans of correcting or improving anything. Because if they did, they would have done that a long time ago. So that's how you get to this point where it's like, all right, I'm done for good. I am gone forever and I am not coming back because it's like if someone can do that to me, if they can really take it that far and betray me, lie to me all of that time, manipulate me, use me and abuse me and clearly there's no way they're ever going to change. There's no way that things are ever going to be any different if they can do that that entire time. So of course you get to that point after you've seen through the manipulation. You know it's a done deal. It's all over. You can't go back to them. You can't ever see them the same way ever again after what they did to you. After that act of betrayal, you can never trust them again because the entire time they knew exactly what they were doing and they lied to you.  So now at this point, you've wised up. You've become more aware. You've realised what you were dealing with and yeah a lot of you at this point despite everything you've been through you may be feeling positive, optimistic, confident. You may be feeling quite high and mighty as though yeah you may have lost a large portion of your life especially if it was a narcissistic parent but now it's like it's over now. I'm free. I can move on. I may have lost a lot of my life to this person, this manipulator, this abuser but at least now I've woken up. I've found my freedom. I can become independent and I can make the most of the rest of my life. So at least that's something I know at least. That's what you might think because it may be over for you but it's not over for the narcissist. I don't know what you may be thinking what do you mean it's not over for the narcissist.  They manipulated, they abused me, they exploited me all of that time. They made to me the future fake. They made all of these promises about the future and I never got anything out of it.  What do you mean it's not over for the narcissist. I'm sure that's what many of you must be thinking. Yes, I'm sorry to say that when you begin to wise up and you see through the manipulation that is not the end. That's just the beginning and it definitely gets a lot worse before it gets better. If it does get better because in a lot of situations they never let go.  They will do whatever it takes to protect it so they can't just let you go off and live your life without them. They can't just let you do that and when you reject them and you figure them out they will take that as an attack on their false character. They will see it as though you're out to get them and they will try to beat you to the punch and not just try. Pretty much every situation they're going to be successful because they are masters of manipulation and it's likely that they have been smearing you the entire time ready for when you do figure them out and try to leave.   They will try to get you fired from your job they will target you financially they will spread lies and rumors about you they will start a smear campaign and enforce their flying monkeys they will try to turn everyone against you to take away your support and to leave you isolated because they don't want you to have any sources of influence outside of them they want to brainwash and indoctrinate you into seeing it as though it's you you're bad, you're crazy, you're wrong and you just made a big mistake by rejecting them by figuring them out that's the whole point of it you need to regret your decision they want you to feel like you made the wrong move as though you were better off just going along with them blindly so that's what happens when they really know that you're gone and you're not coming back that's when they will go all out to destroy you because at that point they just see it as though there's nothing to lose now they're never going to let it go they will hold a grudge for life I mean you could see through them and reject them it could be 20, 30 years later they're still going strong heavily opposed to you and still seeking to destroy you or at that point if they haven't destroyed you that kind of reveals that they're not trying to completely finish you off they just want to keep you down at a certain level where they're able to control you and they'll never let it go the entire time they will just do everything in their power to keep you down because they look at it like you're either with them or you're against them and once you've shown that you are really against them it doesn't matter what they've done to you they expect you to remain blindly loyal to them regardless of what they do to you that doesn't matter they feel entitled to do whatever they want but they expect you to listen to them and remain loyal no matter what you're never allowed to speak out against them but everything they did to you they tend to keep a code of silence they don't reveal any of that to anyone if they do they find a way to justify it so that it doesn't look so bad they minimise everything they do and then they exaggerate everything that your mental have done or they just blow it out of proportion to make it look like it's all you it's all your fault you caused everything they didn't do anything wrong that's what they always do and again they always blame the victim for everything the victim always gets the blame the victim is the one who takes the loss as I've said before you know what it now says because they come in with little or nothing and then they leave with so much more than what they came in with while the victim leaves with a lot less than what they came in with that's how you know who the narcissist is in any situation I mean you know if you were involved with a narcissist and I'll say this to anyone if you were involved with a narcissist and you left with a lot more whether it's money, experiences a house, a car trips around the world how can you think that you're the victim that doesn't make any sense and I'm sure many of you will agree with this you can relate to it in every situation that's how you know who the narcissist or the abuser is every time it is the one who came in with very little or nothing and they left with more the victim always leaves with a lot less than what they came in with that reveals who the abuser is it tells you everything you need to know that's how anyone can know straight away it's so easy to identify it because you can see it straight away the victim came in with so much life energy and optimism the mayor came in with a lot of money and resources a home, a car dreams and aspirations for the future and then by the end of it they lost it all would they have lost it all if they weren't dealing with a narcissist probably not that's just the effects of dealing with one abuser's their predators they seek to exploit people to take advantage of them and you think that after everything they've done to you I mean they may have been abusing you for a very long time they may have stripped you of everything you had everything you worked for your entire life they may have drained it all out of you you had nothing left naturally you might assume that it's all over I mean if you've got nothing else to lose but even then they're not just going to let you move on and start a new life without them even if you don't have anything they will still try to punish you they will go for the smear campaign they will try to isolate you they really do not want you to be good for anyone or anything after they are gone they just want it to be all over for you after that 214 live viewers only 33 thumbs ups please hit that thumbs up button down below it will only take you 2 seconds please show your support thank you but yeah I know a lot of you know that once you decide it's over that's all over and that's how it should be no one should be forced or coerced into a situation that they do not want to participate in but with Narcissus they will do just that they will try to keep you locked in a situation in a condition that you do not want to be a part of they will try to keep you down keep you stuck for the rest of your life to where you just can't move on you can't pick back up you can't put things back together you can't restore everything that they destroyed and that is exactly how they want it the last thing they want to see is you getting better you being happier you moving on with your life that is the last thing they want because they already know that despite everything they did to you they still wouldn't satisfy with that it doesn't matter if they were abusing you your entire life it doesn't matter that still didn't satisfy them it wasn't enough that's how they develop such an entitlement they're still waiting for their hands out expecting some form of compensation even though they just completely drained everything out of you in the relationship already they're still expecting more because they never satisfied that's how I've said in a recent video I've said how Narcissus always losing the end I mean yeah they do all of this stuff they ruthlessly exploit us but are they ever happy at the end of it are they ever satisfied I mean even if you go through a divorce with a narcissist and they take your children they take your house, your car even then they're still miserable they're still not happy they could be living in your beautiful home with their new partner their partners sitting on your couch watching your TV driving your cars taking care of your children and you can't even see them yet you have to pay all of this money every month to support the very children that you can't even see but despite all of that you could just go off to some exotic country somewhere live in the jungle with your foreign wife in a cabin in the middle of nowhere and even then Narcissus will still try to come back to sabotage your new relationship that's how you know they're still not satisfied if someone is abusing you they're punishing you trying to get revenge for whatever reason if they are satisfied you will know you will know when they're satisfied with what they've done when they feel like it's enough because then the abuse will stop they will leave you alone they will forget about you so that's all you need to know right there that should reveal to you that they're never going to be satisfied they're never going to be happy with anything in their lives it doesn't matter what they do to you it doesn't matter how they treat you it doesn't matter how bad things get for you they're never going to be happy but for you I don't know it may not seem this way right now but I can promise you even if you've lost everything even if you have lost your house your cars your business your money, your children, everything to this Narcissist that doesn't mean it's all over for you that doesn't mean you can't be happy I mean just look at it like this I mean I know myself and my own experiences I've done all of that I've lived the millionaire lifestyle I've had the billers the super cars all of the girls and I can tell you I wasn't happy even then even then I was smoking cannabis every day trying to numb the pain because I achieved all of these things that I thought would finally make me happy I just can't understand why am I still miserable why am I still seeking something more why do I feel like I still need a bigger villa, a bigger house an even better car even more money even more girls why am I still feeling like that and that's just it these things do not bring us happiness so even if they do manage to destroy all of this in your life don't worry about it too much all of this superficial nonsense it's really just a distraction from what really matters and what really matters is on the inside and not just that but it's projection what we need to focus on is our authentic ourselves instead of trying to cover things up and that's really the problem that a lot of us make we think we can just move on things get better we live our best lives without them they won't allow that to happen they will come back and try to destroy it they will try to ruin your life they're not just going to let you move on and forget about them if you're dealing with a real narcissist you know I've been through so many different smear campaigns throughout my life and I think the mistake I made every time is that I made my intentions clear to them I let them know exactly how I felt about them after I figured everything out I realized what they were doing to me all of that time and that is the worst thing you can do I've said it before do not even confront them as soon as you do that it's going to cause a narcissistic injury and they will come after you so what I advise for you instead is to stay undercover do not reveal your intentions plans or motives to the narcissist even though you may have figured them out you're no longer under their spell you know what they're about now and I know you may just want the satisfaction of seeing the look on their face when you bring it to them you confront them you let them know just how you feel and what you're going to do how your life is going to be so much better without them yeah I get that but that is going to put you in a very dangerous position instead the best thing you can do if you really want to move on and live a good life without them you just got to play along just act like you're not on to them nothing's changed just go along with it and then one day you don't tell them anything and you just disappear like a thief in the night and that's not to say that you steal anything from them that's just an analogy of course I do not condone theft but I mean you just take your stuff and you just get out of there and walk away you don't tell them where you've gone you just disappear and maybe just move to another country if you can because there's no telling what they might do if they know where you've gone they will try to destroy your new life so that's really the best thing you can do never let them know that you're done or that you're gone for good just be gone and take time to plan things out carefully it doesn't have to be overnight you've got to be patient I know it's difficult dealing with them if you're still with an narcissist you're living with one now I advise you to just keep it quiet don't let them know that you're watching my videos that you're on to them that's the worst thing you can do then they're really going to give it to you I had a client I was speaking to her a few years ago I can't reveal her name on you of course but she was my only so far Japanese client and her English wasn't very good I believe she was living in Japan at the time funny enough I'm in Japan right now as well but yeah I remember speaking to her and she had to hide in a room and lock the door just so she could have the session with me and that's really how you've got to do it you've got to hide everything you're doing and I haven't cured from her since then but I'm hoping that she managed to get out without the narcissist knowing that she managed to just move on with her life following the abuse following everything she went through I mean that's what I wish for all of you normally I would be completely against that type of behaviour of course I mean if I was with someone and I thought I'm building a relationship a future with them and then they just disappear one day yeah I would think that's really bad but it's very different with narcissists isn't it because for one thing we're invested in everything we have into them they're not investing anything into us they're abusing us they're using us they've got other people on the side so by all means keep it quiet and plan your escape by all means do that you are just and fair in making that decision because if you don't what do you think is going to happen if you stick around if you stay in it of course it's just going to get worse you're going to be abused even more they're never going to treat you right they're never going to appreciate or respect you you're going to be giving more and more of yourself you're going to lose everything so although I would not normally condone that of course in these types of situations what else are you supposed to do because they're never going to listen to you they're never going to try to understand you it's not a normal situation so you can't play fair you can't play by the rules with someone who wasn't playing by the rules with you from the very beginning of course by doing that it's going to put you at disadvantage that's all that it's going to do and it's going to leave you wide open to being further exploited in the future so don't keep yourself in that type of situation most of them I mean pretty much everyone who is watching this right now the narcissist you're dealing with they're never going to change it's highly unlikely it's extremely rare that they ever do change and that's why you really do just need to focus on saving yourself they may play the victim and try to get you to stick with them and give everything you have but honestly by doing that you're going to lose it all and when that happens they're not going to be there for you while you would have been there for them no matter what which is why if you're dealing with someone who is highly narcissistic you've just got to worry about yourself honestly when I look back at everything I've been through I've been just worried about myself just focused on getting myself out of there walking away protecting myself things would have gone a lot easier for me everything that went wrong for me in my life it's when I cared too much and I tried to help and save the narcissist and by doing that it never went well for me it never does it never goes well for anyone by doing that if you're helping a normal person of course that can work but we're not talking about normal people these are narcissists people who only care about themselves people who you might give them your hands come out of a ditch and then they'll just turn around and push you in there this is why you need to be so careful so it's not all over as you may think when they know that you're gone forever they're going to hunt you down and try to pull you back into it because while it's over for you it's not over for them they still have unfinished business they feel rejected abandoned they feel the threat of exposure and they feel injured because they feel like they're bad or they went enough for you so now they want to make you feel that way which is why I say be very careful don't reveal your plans or intentions to them they're not going to do that with you I mean all of this time they've probably been talking about you people behind your back planning their smear campaign and they haven't told you anything about that your thinking of going to them and revealing your plans and intentions just so they can then be two steps ahead of you and try to sabotage your efforts because that's all they're going to do they don't want to see you moving on, they don't want to see you being happy they don't want to see you being good for anyone or anything else after they are gone and in fact they don't ever want to be gone they want to be there agitating you for the rest of your life that's all that they want to be doing so be aware of that and protect yourself because honestly that's all I want for you and that's what I get on here everyday nothing hurts me more and to see innocent people being hurt and abused being tricked used and manipulated by selfish exploitative narcissistic people especially when something could have been done to prevent it and I do see it as my duty as I have the information to get on here to do my best to try to prevent these things from continuing I want to save you the time the energy the resources I want you to have plenty of time left in your life plenty of energy confidence money so that you can move on independently and just be happy and live a good life a comfortable life that's really what I want for all of you and honestly nothing brings me more joy and to see victims moving on becoming stronger having healthy relationships maybe you buy a home together you get married you have children honestly that's what I want for all of you nothing would make me happier than that to know that the victims have won the victims have become survivors and thrivers that's why I do this because the last thing I want is for these dogs to win and honestly happy, successful confident people that makes me happy too even though I may not have gotten to have the happiness the future, the success that I wanted that was robbed from me many times but at least if I can make it happen for you to see you succeed where I couldn't but I wasn't allowed to if you can do that then my job is done and I can find happiness through witnessing your future, your success I don't need to experience it on my own I used to think that I needed to achieve my dreams my goals but if I can just make it happen for you and I get that response somewhere down the line you send me an email that's what I want you send me an email a picture of your new home your family your husband or wife, your children you're happy, you finally found love joy fulfillment after narcissistic abuse just to know that that would make me happy more than anything else and that's really what I want for you just keep it quiet don't reveal your plans and intentions to them go along with it make them believe you're still susceptible continue to validate them as you were doing before don't let on then plan your exit walk away, disappear go far away delete your social media change your phone number just go start a new life because I'm telling you if you're dealing with a narcissist they're not just going to let you go they will hunt you down and come after you and they will try to prevent you from ever having any sort of future without them and that is the last thing I want for you I want you to be happy I want you to be successful I want you to have a future after this so that's it this message for today I hope you found it helpful and I hope it encourages and motivates you to get out of the abusive relationship and move on and begin a new life free from abuse life's too short for this shit as I've said before life is meant to be enjoyed not endured quotes and I stand by that we didn't come here to endure misery pain and suffering we came here to be free and to be happy so let's take the steps so that we can achieve that thank you all for watching 243 live viewers please hit that thumbs up button down below it will take you 2 seconds and it will help to get this message out there to other victims who may need to cure this and it could prevent so many problems in their lives it could change everything for them if they just see this video so please do your part and just hit 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Next question is from Kat Il Est. My nephew is seven and is showing interest in weightlifting. Where is a good place to start? What exercises or routines would you recommend? Gymnastics. That's right, at seven years old, what you're looking to develop is coordination. Body awareness. And body awareness. And they can get it with weights. It's gonna be really, really hard. Here's a problem with weights and seven. I've trained kids that are real young. I've even trained kids as young as seven or eight years old. And it's literally 10 minutes. That's about as long as you can keep their attention. And it turns into games, which gymnastics is a lot of.  Plus they're maneuvering their own bodies and they're getting more body awareness. Weights will help do that as well, but it doesn't do it nearly as well as gymnastics will. Especially not for a seven year old. And trying to get a seven year old to handle a weight above their head, it's not gonna work. It's hard to find dumbbells small enough. It just doesn't work as well. Typically with weights, I start around 12 or 13. But before that, it's like, you know, it's body weight stuff, you know, lunges and squats and push-ups and tumbling and handstands and planks and. Climbing. Climbing is great. Games where they're, they don't even. Balancing.  So she's 10 and I go out in the garage and I'm gonna train my son who's 15. So I can train him straight up. We're gonna do exercises. Sometimes with her, I gotta trick her a little bit. So what I did with her is I had her come out and she's like, I don't wanna work out. I'm like, no problem. You don't need to work out. Just hang out with us. And then I got the physio ball down and I said, hey, I bet you can't sit on this imbalance without your feet touching the floor. She's like, yeah, I can. I said, I bet you can. If you do it for 30 seconds, I'll give you 20 bucks. So she, for literally 45 minutes, she sat on the physio ball and tried to balance. About 45 minutes later, she stops and she goes, my core is really sore. She goes, did you trick me into working out my core? No, you're just playing. Gymnastics does a really, really good job of doing this for young kids. Yeah, I definitely, that's 100%. And that's why I enrolled my kids in like a parkour and gymnastic. And it's just so good for them to learn how their body moves, how to adjust, how to react when they're opposing all these different forces from different angles. I think that's just like essential to build off of that body awareness because then they're in their body and you can really teach them now how to utilize and shuttle the right amount of force in certain directions so they're efficient in what they're doing with their body. And one thing that I do apply with my kids that we talk about all the time on the show is to provide opportunities for them when they see something that they just see like a pull-up bar or they see hanging rings like in my house and they just go and do a pull-up, maybe it's one, maybe it's three, but it's always there. And every time they walk past it, they do it. And it's been really fascinating to watch. My oldest now can do like 10 pull-ups in a row. He couldn't even barely do one. And it's those concepts we talk about, it works. And it works with young kids like that. It doesn't have to be complicated. You don't have to teach them all the mechanics of the perfect squat just yet, especially at seven. You can model that for them so they start to watch dad or mom do these exercises. But honestly, it's providing the environment and the structure for them to express their body the way it needs to. And they learn for themselves which then promotes like excitement and energy towards building on that. So I hated training kids. So I'll tell you what not to do. So the things not to do, the mistakes that I made early on trying to train young kids. So even though I say with tongue in cheek that I hated training kids, I trained a lot of kids and I didn't enjoy it a lot at the beginning because I think I over-complicated the process. I was trying to get these kids to focus for like to Sal's point for 60 minutes of a workout, you know what I'm saying? Or to Justin's point, I was really trying to get them to do a squat perfect or a bicep curl perfect and really get them to understand the form and hold their body there. And I would get frustrated because they would get impatient with it. They wouldn't like doing it. And it just felt like I was wasting their time in my time. And I think when I kind of let go of all of that and stopped looking at the way I would train a beginner client and training kids is different. And just if I could get them to do stuff that I would know would promote a good body awareness, good strength, good balance. I started doing different things. In fact, I was just playing with my niece who's eight years old and my niece was eight year old niece and then I have a nephew who's 13 and she has the ability to sit down in a squat really well.  And she's like, okay, so she can do it. And then I'm like, okay, can you kick your leg out from down here? And so then I would have her and she'd like fall over a couple of times. I'm like, you could, and she'd almost feel it. And she kept practicing it, then she could get it. And I got her to be able to do that. I said, okay, can you now take one leg while you're balancing and then bring it back in and then now switch to the other leg? And then I was, so we messed around with that. That took like 10, 15 minutes for her to get that down. Then she got that down and said, okay, now can you kick the leg out, balance and stand up from that position? And then it took us another 10 to 15 minutes for her to get that. Before you know it, her and I are fooling around for 30 minutes trying to do an exercise. Meanwhile, working on her stability, working on her strength is overall going to make her better at squatting and she's having fun. We're playing with it, we're enjoying it. When I started thinking more like that, right? And I think, Sal, you've alluded to one that I've done similar, I didn't use pencils but I think you've used a pencil one where you throw a bunch of pencils on the ground and you try and see, how many can they pick up without tipping over or falling over? Can they get all 25 or 30 pencils on the ground? Yeah, while balancing on one leg. While balancing on one leg and then you make them switch to the other side which you'll see there'll be a discrepancy most kids right away will have one side they have good stability on, the other side they won't so much. And so playing games like that or having them jump to a single leg balance, right? Jump from one spot and then try and balance on one leg. So doing exercises and movements like that body weight pushups and like Justin alluded to pullups and even just hangs. How long can you hang for? Grabbing rings or grabbing a bar and I bet you can't hold this for 30 seconds. If you can, I'll give you this and I'll challenge you to that.  And you said it perfect. I think Sal said this that, you know, gymnastics, I for sure, I think two years old is when I can first enroll Max in that. And 100%, I will put them in gymnastics just because I think just for that reason, it's not that I hope that it becomes some, you know, major gymnast one day. I just, I understand that that's probably one of the best things that you could take a kid through to lay the foundation for any and all other sports pursuits, including weightlifting. Totally.


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Welcome to Jalassette News. Take your top stories in cryptocurrencies and Jalassettes and break them down into bite-sized pieces. Today we're going to have a little bit of fun. We're going to take a look back at the history and take a look at one of my worst predictions so far. Here isn't over so who knows? We're going to take up my prediction of XRP going to $95.20 and why it could be just a little bit off. I'm going to show you how I got there, the rationale behind my decision-making process and also some ancillary information that we just need to go over. Also America's biggest exchange now is the support for XRP Flare Airdrop and surprise, surprise, it's Coinbase. I'm getting all that but first I want to say thank you to iTrust Capital for sponsoring this video. I don't do many sponsors who date I have had two. One is CryptoTrader.tax. 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All right a rare promoted video on digital asset news so what is going on right now so it is Sunday December 6th it's about 11 a.m. El Paso Texas time and nothing nothing's really going on I'm not even going to go over the whole thing because bitcoin's at 19 one you all know the prices so it's no big deal XRP city stands watch out to those tether nobody cares like coin and so on and so forth so really I just want to make mention of one important thing this is one of the monies made this is when all the money's made when it is boring and people don't want to look at like this is just um it's never gonna go up maybe I was wrong and you get the cold hands and you're like oh my hands are getting weak this is when all the money's made because this is when you dollar cost average in and you put money into it when nobody else is doing also the second time to make a lot of money is when everything goes down so just remember that sure it's boring sure there's really nothing really too much going on but again this is when all the money's made all right let's jump into today's big stories so we don't know where we're going until we know where we've been and I'll tell you where I've been making crazy predictions last year so two of my yeah two of my biggest videos I would say is ripple make 2020 prediction had 56,000 views which is okay but this one over here the bitcoin XRP price in 2020 had almost we'll add a 263,000 views on December 21st so December 20th 56 and then this one so not too bad but really I'm ashamed sometimes of these videos because I mean the price prediction is just outrageous really ridiculous so again it all depends on where you were and I really want you as we're watching this just kind of think to yourself you know what are my decision biases where could I have probably looked a little bit deeper what was my flubs where were my errors because you know we have to take a look at the errors so we can actually you know make improvements going forward so the first minute or so just me talking about you know how we got here this was actually a report brought to us by ripple ripple insights and of course they have a little agenda when they put these things out but you know when I was reading it made a lot of sense so this is what we got XRP price as it relates to the happening and as we see it compared to the price of Bitcoin how Bitcoin has gone up from each happening to their all-time high and all right so first of all great music yeah I used to do a lot of music in the beginning I think I actually I started the channel around December like end of November early December so yeah this makes sense of what I was doing back then but let's just rewind this for a second this is what I'm going to go over so I did here is I used fractals and I took a look at the first second third having for Bitcoin I just saw how much percentage gains it was each of those happenings or having is what we want to call it and I just kind of extrapolate the data from there and said well you know if it was six cents you know when during the first having for XRP then the second having this would happen is 3040 cents so that was a gain about 28x so or 56x and then so the next one if we cut it by half or so we had to about $95.20 so I will say this the time frame is still off because I said well it could be in 2022 but I have to I have to really review this and go I don't think it's going to happen so I see where I was going but it is kind of funny to you know just to kind of take a look back and go wow what the heck we're going to look forward a little bit let's see what I was actually thinking the very next day so I thought this is all interesting because we're going to go over some MSNBC some Squawk box interviews and we're going to see how they're pretty much doing the exact same thing as I did about a year ago how the predictions are pretty much on point but there's just a little bit of a variance but when I took a look at this video I'm like oh my god look at my portfolio back then this is exactly what I wanted to do I wanted just to keep it small and just have a little bit and not blow it up like I did in 2017 well unfortunately it repeats itself and now my portfolio looks like this holy smokes I went off the deep end I know some some people talk about well I gotta give these low-cap gems to make the most amount of money when they're just you know fractions of a penny and so you can make a lot of money that way but for me I kind of hedged my back so I'm like you know I don't know if I'm gonna go down to like the the 500 on the coin market cap or coin gecko just take a look at these prices and hope they kind of come in to me I feel like well Bitcoin Ethereum is gonna be the lion's share because I think those are the ones that are gonna be the best and then off of that I've put my money into what I would consider lower-cap gems but not that much but it does comprise the other 30% or so and I will just tell you this out of all these different projects right now the ones that I dollar cost average every single day still is Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano and Voyager those are the only ones all the rest of them I have my positions I'm pretty good right there and that is pretty much it the reasoning behind it for me is pretty simple I think Bitcoin's on the public consciousness I think it's gonna do very well so I'm gonna keep adding I think I could go up to you know at least 100,000 2021 make another prediction right here let's see if it comes true and it might even go up to 250 300,000 I don't know so I will still continue to add in until it hits around 35,000 then I will not dollar cost average because I think it's gonna go past that hit the all-time high of whatever that could be 100 300,000 I don't know and then come all the way back down to around 30 35,000 so after 30,000 I will not dollar cost average and I'll let the market retrace Ethereum I think it's gonna be very big gonna be huge and it's not Ethereum I think it's gonna be Cardano so it's one of those two however I've always said that I think there's room in the space for two you can't dominate the global environment with a new technology with just one technology and have it just go all there I mean you could I mean actually you couldn't look at Amazon that's really a new technology if you think about it Google did the same thing but I still think there's there's room for two in there and then Voyager I believe in Voyager I believe what they're doing I think it's gonna be a huge project because of not just their app but their acquisitions that they're doing they just purchased a exchange and I think it was France and the European Union so they're gonna be branching out over there also their token I think I see it just like the Binance token so that's why I put in money every single day to those four projects so now let's go back so I want to start off with MSNBC and they're just talking about Tim Draper and how crazy his prediction is and now when we look at about it we're like it's not crazy that could actually totally happen producers we talked about this earlier today I said I don't know if we should talk about it because I felt like it was so bold it's almost irresponsible but Draper's a he's a well-known guy he's not gonna say anything he doesn't believe so we went ahead and did this I mean is there anything that you're seeing that could make this bizarre prediction happen so isn't that amazing first of all they're like this is so far outside the realm of possibility we shouldn't even cover it because it's it's actually dangerous to our viewers and now we look at it we're like yeah I mean you know 150 150 thousand it's pretty a pretty conservative number these days depending on you know which big institution has put out their numbers I mean Fidelity and TD Ameritrade all these big I mean Paul Tudor Jones and the Druckenmiller is and when they start talking about these numbers it's like oh okay well that's what it's gonna be and it's not a big thing and it's just a year ago so it's amazing how things accelerate so fast you know what it sounds bizarre but has done in the past and so that's why I wanted to bring up this chart just to be clear this is not my call but I just want to take a look at what Bitcoin does so the chart we have here is a log chart of Bitcoin since 2013 and as you know Cardiworth will say the lines draw themselves but you have this channel going all the way back to 2013 and it's traded nicely in that now look at this if you go all the way out here to the top of this channel here that's about 200 thousand 250 thousand so it totally makes sense right I mean we can we looked at it back then and we're like that's kind of crazy but now in today December 6 2020 we're like yeah that sounds pretty reasonable that's what then striking distance we would say so so there's that piece and then it's just one thing about Tim Draper he's been incredibly consistent the whole time and he's hit his numbers so he was the one that called actually he called it 20 000 Bitcoin and it went up to 20 000 so 10 to 20 hey if you're if you're under it not too bad now we're going to get it into Tom Lee this is always funny about Tom Lee because when he was on there this year they treated him like some second-class citizen like all right not coming here and talk about your craziness but in 2017 they treated him like a god because he was like yeah Bitcoin's going to go to this and it's going to go up they're like oh really fantastic and of course now this is in remember this is 2019 when everything was like crashing Bitcoin was around seven thousand dollars it had been like moving sideways and nothing doing really anything you know like all right Tom come in here and you know spew your ridiculousness let's hear it but again he's another guy who's been incredibly consistent so I have to tip my hat to him I mean I'd still say if I looked at 2020 the easiest way to make money in crypto is going to be a position in Bitcoin I mean as you guys mentioned it's actually done quite well this year so I think Tom here is a is a Bitcoin maximalist the thing is with Bitcoin I think it's the safest bet I do personally because I mean everybody knows about it institutions are getting in I mean old school legacy places like fidelity now has fidelity digital assets and they're going to push a lot of people to Bitcoin and Ethereum so I think that's the safest bet however if you think about it for Bitcoin to go up to its all-time high it's around 7,000 right now uh some around there it's December 21st 2019 so for it to go up to its all-time high it has to roughly triple right 7, 9, 3, 21 my math is correct and the all-time I was around 20,000 okay triple but if you look at other digital assets like XRP right now it's a 20 cents if it tripled that'd be 60 cents it's all-time high it was $3.40 so what is it 8x, 10x, 2, 4, 6, 8 yeah yeah so I'm not real good at math and I'm still not but that was the thinking back then I was like you know what there's more upside I mean I still think about you know XRP there's still there's still major upside because just to get back to its all-time high I mean look that is that is it then the 10x well not now but when it was 25 cents 15 30 cents or something like that and of course yeah I could have made it but I mean I was like wow I don't think Bitcoin's gonna get back to its its previous all-time high and here we are we're almost I mean we just hit it not too long ago actually we exceeded it not it's like about a week ago um I did say though back then I thought that the safest bet was Bitcoin that was a year ago and I still say the exact same thing actually I was on I was on Jerry Hall's show and at the very end I asked everybody who was on the panel I said if you have $10,000 and you have to bet your family's future on it what coin what would you put which cryptocurrency would you put that into and it could be anything bit the avenue and crypto siege without hesitation said XRP Jerry at first said Bitcoin but then we put some of the parameters and he said yeah okay I'll go XRP you know what I'm still gonna go Bitcoin because it's the most conservative no it won't it could not potentially make the gains that XRP could but we don't know what's gonna happen XRP could be deemed a security now before you throw your fist at the screen and start screaming you never know it's not like the wheels of justice are perfect let's just be honest and they could they could do that and that could sink a lot of things it could still take off it would just take a heck of a lot longer and there could be other issues that are out there so I think that XRP could be a great play for you if it if it all works out but for me I'm just gonna say you know what I'm gonna go a little bit safer and then go with that now am I going to sell my XRP no like I've said before I will go down with the ship I'll go down as long as it takes because guess what I've got nothing but time and if it doesn't make it it's okay I've already lost a whopping like 80% now it's 75% somewhere of the value of that position so another 20% is not going to kill me and I just don't care so now that I look back on these videos and I see just the positions that a lot of the people have I respect their decision even more just to hold strong with this is what I see it's going this is what I believe it to be they're not all over the place you know some people might might say that their Charlotte tends just for their initial prediction but it's what they truly believe it's going to be and again they're not like just throw out these like super crazy numbers maybe back then it was a crazy number but at least that they've been consistent the whole total time and I can respect that you know let me know what you think in the comment section do you think XRP could hit $95.20 or that $589 magical number that people keep throwing around or do you think it's gonna go back to being a pig to the quarter let me know in the comment section let's move on next up this will be quick Coinbase is going to list the flare airdrop for XRP this is kind of a surprise to me because I didn't think they were going to do anything with retail I've I've been saying for a while for about a week now or so a couple weeks I think Coinbase has just moved on to the institutional side and it's kind of left the retail at the at the wayside but they actually bowed down and said yep you know what we're gonna bend the knee and we're gonna say yes we will definitely support this flare airdrop and it really comes down to the power of the community because if the community didn't demand it so much or talk about it so much or give them so much trash about it they wouldn't have done it because they'd be like who cares we don't need to do this for for anybody but now that people step up and they do it hey now here we are so this is actually from Stettis and he puts out a nice little graphical representation of all the different wallets in exchange that are actually going to participate in this airdrop you got everything from uphold bit hum okay x the new ones that I saw was cracking at first but they put out a release that we're not going to support this and then they toyed with the 180 and said oh well we're going to support it so crack is going to do it my guys would I trust capital are you going to do it and then Poloni x is also going to but there's just one thing and this is this comes down to all the different exchanges and that is this this is the official blog post for Coinbase they say yes we're going to support it it's on December 12 2020 at 0 100 hours so I recommend that you stop transferring all your stuff around a couple of days before and just let it sit there don't be like I'm going to do the last minute that's that's dumb just put it in there set it and forget it and don't move it so they do say this and this is for all exchanges our decision to support any asset requires significant technical and compliance review and may be subject to regulatory approval in some jurisdictions which is amazing because when Uniswap got listed it was like as soon as it got Uniswap said we're going to give out some tokens Coinbase is like we'll do that and then no problems but whatever we therefore cannot guarantee when or if Spark will be available for distribution in any specific jurisdiction at this time so this goes with all the exchanges if they don't want to list it they they don't they're not going to list it I don't know how that's going to work as far as like getting it off the exchange maybe an alleged will support or maybe they'll have their own wallet I have no idea but just so you know the exchanges you pick could not end up listing it meaning you could not sell it meaning that it could just be stuck there and maybe maybe not who knows also the snapshot is happening on December 12 doesn't mean you're going to instantly get those flare tokens it's going to be until Q1 2021 so just be aware of that and lastly there's two wallets that I don't see here I don't see Celsius anywhere here but Celsius is going to support it you can do a search for Celsius XRP airdrop and there'll be a video there from a guy named Nuke the chief technical officer also Alex Machinsky came out on on YouTube and did the same thing on one of his AMAs and said yes we are going to support also Voyager is also going to support that I had message Steve last week I said hey man I know you're getting ready for your big Giants game which they're going to lose I said are you guys going to support the airdrop he said yep we said it on Twitter but not in a formal release but yes we are go Giants so and so so Voyager will also be supporting and you don't do anything you just leave it right there and that's it so as far as I can tell it seems to me like most most if not all well most you can't say all most of the big exchanges and big wallets are going to support this and that and that's on top of Binance and Binance US as well and that is really it for today don't forget to check out iTrust Capital the link is in the description below just go over there schedule a call talk to them as long as you want to it's great talking to a real person and then get these things done before these crazy taxes get enacted or even if there's no crazy taxes that come up you've still got to pay taxes so try to minimize those as best as possible all right so thanks for sticking with me to the whole thing I really appreciate it if you like these types of videos doing two months gonna pop up on your left and right not sure I'll let YouTube do their magic and that is it for today so thanks again really appreciate it and I'll see you on the next one