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They think of him, that bhto-eyed boy, Who left hia native shoro. With many a promiso to return Kro i?tuumer-tirao was o'er; He sought his fate on the wido sea, But all ! in it's embrace Ilo slumbers now, and in our home. Has left ayacaut place. ' _ , But while wo miss the njerry. voioo Of that fair sailor lioy, > We should not v.ecp, but oh"I ho dwells rAbovo in jieaec and joy. Then lvt tuir best, our bri^lrtest smiles, :T-he tear ttf cadness chage, l-\>r-it u-o lovo him atill, our hearts Cau-.owii no vacant place, j CAPTAIN FRANK. E57I OLITEE IiOZIEfc, Plasterty, Acton, Oat. Every description of Plastering and Rough-casting done on - (Iiq most reasonable Lerxa3f ana sallufac* tlOD coarxn'^esd. A CTOJ PtOEE MILLS. ! S. *'E. SICKLI^, Proprietorp. Floor and Feed always on band, wboie- -xte and retail. GriKtlns and Chopplnu .iJally. CfshCor all tieds of Griiin. . B6SSIN BOtSE, Acion. Cl0e to ttie O. T. Baliway Btaliiiu. 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Because he cells only forlcash, takes no risks and has no boolk accounts. Every instru ment is fully warranted for six years as strictly 6rst qlass, and aro sent on Irotn 5 to .15 days' test trial, money refundrd. and freight paid both wayij by him if they are usatis- factory. Send for Illustrated ,Ad YKP.TUEtt (Catalogue Edition) and read testimonials from his patrons, some of whom you may know. Ad- |/dre6S-J)ANlr:L F.-EEATPY, VVash- ington^Ncvf^ Jersey, . _ JOB PltlXTINO of'all kinds- neatly an I promptly executed at the FREE PRESS OFFICE,J - Next the I'ost OSIcc M1JI Str.cet, . ^ CHAPITER I. j ' : -. . I . I 1 " Thunderution, a woman !'-' |. This ungtUlMit exchuimtion ;was wruug fiotix the lips of Sum Bar ber, the guide and leader of a wnall party tli.it was.itbout td start froni Fishervillo to vinit. one of tlio wild est and least kuovr portiona of Northern California on a prospect- i.u tour. Tlio party numbered nine, and might well be called a " picked nine," as none but the best men J among many volunteora had been accepted by 5ho leader. They were armed arid equipped expressly for the difficult and pro bably dangerous tubk buforo them. Tlio KiupriBe of such a party may be imagined when a tenth person rodo up, having tlio appearance of, a tnaa, and made this uuusual an nouncement : ' " I wish to join your party, eii-, and it is proper that I should in form you that I am a.woman." The. f-ui-jiiiad of Sam Barber amounted to consternation, and drew from him tho exclamation above recorded. "Yes, sir, a woman; but my nauio is not Tbimdenation. You iuay call me Frank, if Jyou wish." The a'.iuir.c.nent yf th() ^uido did not prevent him from inspecting her more narrowly. She l.&jd the appearance of a good lookingi Leardleas boy, ah thotigh somewhat ubove tho usual height of v.-omen, and whs ns well armed and mounted as any of the men of the pu.rt.-r. " It can't bo done" said -Sam Barber, finding his voico :agniu. t=a3 i " Xever beard of such a thing." t^g !) " You hear it now,", oho caid, **^ i" and that is sufficient.'1 " We couldn't have a woman in this crov.-di None but the best of men are fit for the work wo want to do." j . .- " It is absolutely necessary that I should go in tho direction you u]*.an to take." " "Why so? What's tho matter?" /< ^ly husband is out there some-- srl!iere, a-'^d be is sick or wounded; or.ia some corbie trouble, and I must g? to hiiu " How do you ^now that ?" "Heeame to ma in - a dream, and called me.to him. 1 sat* him Btretching out bin hands, ^nd he begged me to come and help h."1- If you will tell uswbetje to fint1 him, we will look after him." "But I don't know whero to find him.jind its 26'he Want9. I only know that I shall find him by going with you." Honest Sam Barber was sorely ' puzzled, perplexed andj-annoyed. Be looked around at his com panion!?, as if expecting some sug gestion from them, but ..received none. " I don't want to hurt your feelings, ma'am," he Raid, " but this is nothing but nonsense. To think of a person starting out to hiint a man on tho strength of a dtaam, without the most distant idea of where he ia to bo found ! Nobody over heard of such a wild- goose chase." - : " I know that I shall find him by going with you.. Come 1 I am ready and have no time to waste." " VVe can't have a woman in this party," sharply replied 'Sam. " You must see it yourself, it won't do, now, really." "' But I mean to go, sir, and I don't know how you can, prevent me. Poor Sam Barber was Sadly troubled. He perceived that this ;woman meant what she said. f Her- nervo and determination was evident' enough. .'._ .~* Sho really intended .to accom pany the party, and they could not, as Calitbraians, bo so ungallur.t as actually to drive her away. He called up the other eight men for their opinion of thiB state of uffuirs; but tbey shirked all' re sponsibility, He was"the leader of the party, and Tie must decide. -'The matter decided itself, or was decided, rather, by jtho per- .sistentjutruder. Sho did accompany tho party, and proved herself an agrdeablo acquisition instead of a' burden. Th^iy had not travelled many Near its entranco Sam Barber called a halt. " I was never in this region be fore," ho said, " but I judgo, from daya-'beforo the ei>tit-6 nine, includ-' what I havo hoard, that yonder ia ing rough Sam Barber, were glad - - - that she had como; in fact, the guide ;was ulmost ready to declare that she web " tho best man of the party." Sho was really expert in tho ubo of her weapons) and was equal to all tho emergencies of tUe~exp'odi< v^lmt is known bb Bull Moutl Canon. If so, wo must keep our eyes peeled, as it in the headquar ters of Hernandez's gang of out laws." " It is ail unlikely plnco for roh- bers,". romnrked one of the party, j " as it is hardly possible that any traveller ever comes this way." " lhat ain't tho point," replied Barber. " They go fair enough away to do their devilish work, but bring their plunder hero to hide and divide it. If the officors.or the vigilante* get after them, they re treat to this place, and then conoid- eir themselves safe." "What's that you aro talking about J"" eagerly asked Captain Frank. " Outlaws and robbora t" " Yes Hernandez's plied Barber. ' " In there? in that' canon V " That ia their headquarters, I believe." 6ang> "Lot us go in, then ; that is] where my husband is. They have him.' I tho matter his hands my tion. No danger duuntod her, no diffi culty discouraged her, no fatigue was biiiiicieut to overcomo her. Sho insisted on doing hor share of nlf labors, on bearing hor I part of all perils. I Sho told hor story, which wjlb a simple one. Her name was Frances Bell, aud she was the wifo of James .Bell, an." old forty-niner,", who hndgone prospecting, a month* or o previ ously, into tho very; region- ifiiich Barber and his party proposed to explore. She i had hid a ' roruarkablo dream, or vision, in which she hd seen him stretching out his hands and calling .to her. ' j Nothing, she declared, [could, have been more lifelike'and vivid than that dream, aud it' was hard to porsuado her, when sho awoke, thut she had uctuully been dream ing. It impressed itself so forcibly on her mind thut sho declared that; she know her husbaud was in some dreadful extremity, and that she must.go to hia rescue. Making inquiries concerning guides ami help; sho learned that Barber's expedition wus about to start from Fisherville. Leaving her houne and children jin tho care of friends, she equipped .herself as ha3 been" describedj iiiounted her horse, aud hastened to join them. . Captain Frank, as Mrs. Bell was called by her comrades, was so thoroughly in earliest in- all sill! said and did, arid was so complete ly convinced of the reality of the prophetic nature of her dream, that her confidence eomniunicate'Oteelf to her companions, all of whom finally becomo converted to her belief. ' She declared that it was a peculiar place at which her husband had stretched-oui his handti to her, and-j that it had bean so impressed upon her that she would surely recoguize it as eoou as bhe should oee it. Sho JftRcribiHl it In her conirndes, all of wbeiu-became,eo filled with Ler faith that'they kept a careful watch for it all along tho route. Time passed pleasantly with tho expedition, in spito of peril and hardship and fatiguo. Captain Frank was cheerful, bo- cause she knew that she wasj;oing to her husband. - She could not be certain that she would reach him in .time to relieve 'him '; but. she didojot doubt that: she was going to him, and borolup bravely under tho uncer tainty. . ' As a pioneer of the early dayB, she could give her share of the adventures that were nightly ref lated around the camp-fire. She had loved her husband with her whole heart, and it had been her pride and pleasure to share his | like the retting trv the sun u peJla and aid him in his enter-j a thin cloud, with a delicate sp.lnf.b ! 'or rain in it; it3 fj-a^rauco. is like | how know what was when he stretched out to" me. Come friends, its all right now." But the guide demurred. " You miqht as well put your head in a lion's mouth," he said, " as to venture near old Hernan dez and hi3 cutthroats. For my part, I ion willing to own that I am afraid of them, and that, I had much i-uther- not ' see the inside of that canon." " I must go alonejther.. I must go whero my husband is." Others of the party declared that Gaptaio. Frank should not' go with out them, and-44ie leader was com pelled to yield, though reluctantly, the will of !the majority. It was a little after noon when they entered tho canon, but, although tho suu was high in the heavens, few of its rays penetrated that tremendous gorge, and a feel ing of gloom oppressed the travel lers as tbey rodo bet-ween those rugged and lofty walls, carefully guiding their horsea araonu the boulders! and broken rocks with which tlio bottom of the canon waB thickly strewn: , Captain Frank, however, preBEod forward gayly. Sho seemed to ba animated by fresh enthusiasm, and kept urging her companions to make haute,- as aho wiuhed to be sure of reaching her husband be fore nightfall. They went slowly and cautious ly, however, in spite of her per suasions, keeping a scout-"-in- ad vance and scrutinizing every point of rock and every crevice in the awful wallB that overshadowed them. Suddenly Captain Frank stop ped, and uttered a glad cry. - '(Conclucltd next icuk.) Josh Billings -on .:lcrrics. Straw- Tho strawberry is one of nature's sweet petp. She makes them worth fifty cents the fust she makes, and never allows them to lie sold at arniean price. ! The color of the strawberry iz He was Fond of Astronomy. You wouldn't havo thought he had the slightest tasto f6r the sciences had you seen him-sprawled' all over tho salt barrels in hfa sleep, but ho had scarcely been registered nsiTolin Sly Hunt and put into a col) whon be began calling : ,vSay ! Say, you ! "Say, boys, I want a better coll. I. "want a cell- from which I can look out and see Mars' moons !" Iiijah,went to the cell door and remonstrated. Hn asked the pris oner to tuko into consideration the fact that being in an observatory was altogether different from being in the jug1. Astronomers ,can sit up in the tall towers and boss their assistants around without stint, but prisoners have! -no astronomical rights. t " Mars I Mars ! Mars !" yelled the man, as he shook the Cell door. " Never /heard of Jam," replied tho ol|l man. " Gimme a looking-glass !" con- tinued Hunt. ' " Haven't any in tho house." " Lemma see the moons or I'll holler all night!" howled the .pris oner. . Then Bijah held a private con versation with him. There was rhyme to it..: He said to him : j "This midnight row has got to cejase, In spite of moons and Mars, And if you don't lay down to sleep I'll let you see some stars 1" ; The astronomer was the firpt one to come before bis honor. Ho seemed a busted asteroid. He looked like a dry moon. He squar ed; off. like the Great Dipper a'nd remarked i i " What's the charge for staying hero over nigbt 1" "Nothing not a cent,"/eplied tho court. *' When, did you "fu-8t turn your attention towards the subject of astronomy J" j 41 I've always been quite fond of the moon," was the hesitating re- ply- "And there lave befen many nights iu your life when you have seen two or three moons at once, eh?" j " Y-yea, sir." -, " Name aome of tho planets, will you?" " Well7' reflected the prisoner, 'there is Awful Gardner, ~Joe Co- bourn, tho Chicago Times, and " , That will do, Mr. Hunt. You' didn't observe the transit of Venus I suppose ?" ' " Not aa I remember of." " Well, sir, were: you pursuing the'trubjeco of astronomy aa you lay on those salt barrels ? ' "No, sir; I was ^pursuing the subject of sleep." ' i " I will put ybu, John Sly Hunt, where the subject of making chairs will worry 'you a great deal more than any change of the moon or disappearance 01 a planet. Go in there andtako a seat on the-equi noctial centre fill the buggy drives up." " Star of the morning, come into the milky way," added Bijah, as he crooked his fihgor, and the astrono mer disappeared under a cloud. Detroit Free Press. 'Fiijst prise. The p occasion on which sho had worn man's apparel .and carried a rifle. With.her assistance, JameB Bell had been a successful man until an unlucky .speculation h.'d swept away the greater portion pf his property and- sent him toj pro specting. - Concerning xuch matters Cap tain Frank had a plentiful supply of anecdotes, and told them well, greatly to the satisfaction of lie* auditors. chapter u. resent-was not the first ( the breath uv a baby when it lust begins to eat v.-iutergreen loz- zingers ; its flavor iz like the nectar an old fashioned goddess used to leave at the bottom uv the tumler when Jupiter stood treat on Mount Ida. There iz many breeda uv this delightful vegetable, but not a mean one in the hull lot. I tL.ink I have eaten them, lay ing around loos, without any pedi gree, in somebody's tall grass, when I was a loiry school boy, that eat dreadful easy without any white sugar on them, and aven a bug mixed with them in Ike hurry uv tho moment. Cherrys iz good hut they are too much like suck-< ing a marble that has got a handle to it; Peaches iz'good, if u don't get eriny uv the pin-feathers into your lips. Watermelons will suit ennybody who is satisfied with half-sweeteued drink ; but the.man who can eat strawberries be sprink led with -crushed sugar, _and be "As" the expedition progressed, the entire party " kept their eyes skinned " for the purpose of discov ering that peculiar spot which Captain Frank described us having been seen by her in her dream.-. Their efforts in this regard were unavailing, aud it was too evident that Captain Frank was beginning, not to despair, perhaps, but to en tertain a terrible .feeling of doubt that a serious question had arisen in her mind as to whether her dream hud been & prophetic reality or a delusion. Her cheerfulness departed, her voice was seldom heard, and there was manifest what Byron calls " An^uDcpSiet drooping of tho eye As if its lids were charged with unshed tears." ' Her comrades respected her-J mood, f6r they felt that "they,know its cause, and they, too, rode on in silence,, troubling her with no un-: necessary talk. Affairs were in this condition when they came in sight of a deep and dark crinbu, in the wildest and- ...most rugged, part of .the sierra. tpattered with kreain.(at somebody.; else'B expense), and not! lay his hand on,his stummak and thank the author uv strawberries and stummaks, .and .the phelow who payB for the strawberries, is a man with'"a wornout conscience a man whose mouth tastes; like a hole in the ground, and don't.eare what, gets dowji. 1 . A Kansas farmer purchased a revolver for his wife and insisted on target practice, bo thai she could defend her house in ca^e of his absence. After the bullet had been dug.out of hia leg and the cow buried; be_said he guessed that she'd better shoot .with anaxi - Dress Plainly. Buskin advises girls, to dreB3 plainly, but in bright colors and in the best materials : " Learn dress^ making ' yourself with" pains srnd time, and use -part of tho day' in needlework, making as preUy dresses as you can for poor people who have not time or taste to make them nicely for themselves. You aro to show them in your own wearing what is most right- and graceful, and help them to choose what will be .prettiest and most be coming in their own station. internal, trauepolrt. Love. - As by constant friction steel is highly polished, so by conatani exr ercise talent is kept brightest. Life consists in ends antl begin nings. There is an end, a Jast hour! to everything. We always put it:' so far in the future that we forget- it, and when it comes it comes so' unexpectedly that it finda us uu-' prepared. Conscience is an avenger. It stands at its post ready to vindi cate the majesty pf broken law ; it rebukes sin with a stern voice, and passes its sentence-on the trans gressor ; it is njkn's best friend or his dreadful enemy. A Sense of Property. Botanical Old Gent (in .the .Brighton Gar den) : " Can ybtt-tell -me, my good. man, if this plant-belongs to the 'Arbutus'- family1" <'Gardener (curtly): " No, 'sir, it-.doan't. _.It b'longs to the Corporation." A Practical View. She r '/Haw lovely in the calm stillness of even- Ling to listen to the nightingale's 'nOta!" He: Yo'th, he's a doocjkl fine fellow, ia the nightingale; but { I thiiy. (bright idea) he must be1 g beathly-zicothance to all the other little :birdth.;iha.t .^Wxint to go -to shleep." Tlie True Story of the Telegram. A bill to establish Morse's, elec tric telegraph was introduced" into Congress, but-went on with dis couraging slowness.. At twilight .on the ovaning of the session (March 3rd; J843) there were 119 bills before it'. As it seemed im possible for it to be reached in regular course .before the hour of adjournment should arrivi, the professor, who bad anxiously watched the tardy movements of business all day from tho gallery of the Senato-chahiber, went" with ft sad heart to his hotel, and pre pared to leave for New York at an early hour the next mornirg. While at breakfast, a servant in formed him that a young lady 'de sired to Bee him in the parlor. There he met. Miss Annie Ells worth, then a young' schoolgiri the daughter of his intimate friend, Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth.' the first Commissioner of Patents; who said, as she-extended her hand, to him.: " I iiaVe come to congratulate you." ' -* " ITpon what?" inquired the professor. - 4 "'ITpon thejiassage of your bill," she rfeplied. - " Impossible ! Its fate was seal-' ed at dusk last evening. You must be mistaken." "Not at all," Bhe responded. "Father sent nie to tell you that y our bill was passed. -He- remain ed until the session closed, and yours wa* the; last bill but one acted upoti, and it was passed just five minlites 'before the adjourn ment; and lam so glad to be the first one to tell you.. Mother says, too, that you mast come home with, me to breekfast" . The. invitation was readily ac cepted, and the joy ia the house hold, was unbounded.-. .Bqth Mr., and Mrs. Ellsworth had fully be lieved in tho project, and the former, in his confidence in it and in his warm friendship for 'Profes sor Morse, had spent all the clos ing hours of-Hhe session in the Senato chamber, doing what he could to help/the bill, along, and giving it aljl-fhe influence of his high personal and official position. Grasping the! hand of his young friend, tho: professor thanked her again and ftgaih... for bearing hini such; pleasant tidings, and assured her that she should send oyer the wires the first message, as her re ward; The matter wastalked over in the family, and Mm. ^Ellsworth suggested a message, which Pro fessor Morse referred to the daugh ter for, her approval; and this was^ the one wbieh- was .subsequently sent. A little more than a" yar after that time the lino between Wash ington and Baltimore was complet ed. , :ProfesBOr florae -swas in the former city, and Mr, Alfred Vail, his assistant, in the latter;- the first in the chamber of the Supreme Court, the last iff the Mount Clare depot, when the circuit: being per-' feet, Professor Morse sent to Miss Ellsworth for her message, and it came. " What hath God wrought!" It was Bent in triplicate in the dot-and-lihe language-of the instru ment to Baltimore, and was the first aiessage ever transmitted by a recording telegraph/ - The story x>f this first message h8 be*)n Often told with many 'exag gerations! It has roamed abbut Europe with various romantici] material, attached to it, originating mainly in the French imagination", and has started up anew from time to trnie.in our own country under fresh forms, but the above story is simply and literally true. , An' in ventor in-despair receives the news of -bis unexpected success from his friend's daughter,' and he makes her a promise which he keeps,- and thus links her'name with hia own, and with an invention which be- 'comea onei of the controlling instru ments of civilization for'all time. How a Young Wife Cured Her Unsnanrt of M Brain v fever." A young, wife in Michigan, had jiist.ijbtsettled in her new home.. All seemed fair and promising, for she-did uot know that her husband was a drunkard. But one night he came home at a very late hour, and much the worse' of liquon When he staggered into the'lionse, the wife, who wus greatly shocked, told him he was sick, and' to lie down at once; and in a moment or two he was comfortably settled on a; sofa in a drunken slee^p- H-s face |wa8 reddish purple, hisibreath ing ^vas heavy" and altogether he was a pitiable looking object.. The doctor was sent for post haste and mustard applied to his feet and hands. When the doctor came and felt his - pulse, nnd examined him, and found that he was only drunk, he said : . . - 'Ho will be all right in the' morning.'. But his wife insisted that he was very sick, and that severe remedies must be used. : "' ' ' You must shave his, head aiid apply blisters/ she urge.d, ' or- I ' The husband's head was accord ingly shaved . close ^ and blisters applied. The patient lay- all night iu a drunken sleep, and, notwith standing the blisters were eating into his flesh, it was not till near morning, that he began to beat about, disturbed by pain. About daylight he woke up tp_a . most uncomfortable consciousness of blister agonies. '.-What- does this mean?' b said, putting his hand to his ban daged head. * Lie still yoii . miisn't stir,' saidj .lb9 wife; 'you have beea ' very sick.* 1. ' I'm not gick.' ' Ob, yes you are; you hafe, the braip_ fever"; We have" worked with yon all night.' %-' ' I should think'you had/ groan ed the poor victim ; ' what's tbe ma/ter with my feet'?' ' TbBy are all .blistered.' ' Well, I'm, better now; take ofl[. the- blisters^ do/ ho pleaded] piteously. ;- He was in a mostliijconifortable state hia head covered with sores, and bis feet- and ^liaia were still worse. . ' ' Deaf/ he groaned, * if I Should ever get sick in this way again, don't be ala,rmed: and sent for a doctor, and above all don't blister me again.' 'Oh, indeed I wilUCall' that saved you. weije the blisters, and if you'should have another such-a., spell-1 should be more .frightened jthau ever^for the tendency, I am ' isure is to apoplexy, and from thai next attack.you will be likely to. die-, unless there are' the scqerest. measures used.' 7 He-made no ifurther defence; suffict -16- say, he. never hxid another attack. - - ' ill m I Spi mm iiii |i mmm M rati* if mm The. Printing Office Imp. ". Our'3evil " lias been in a mel- aneholy frame- of "mind the pnsH day *r two, and -on catechising him as to the cause of bjs mjumpishness, he informed- us -hs, had been told by his landlady to look itip another boarding house. ; He '.said .that a general conversation-.-epruag.- up at the supper table aTfew eveningi since, and finally the landlady, herj- self told a story about the .bttttej- being so hard that on cntting it'.the, knife broke.in -two, attribut ing its soliduess to the cold weather. " Our devil" ever on the look-out to get -irii his. say imprudently made "the. followija^.lirimant re--1 I mark : -"J Perhaps it was more on jiCBOunt of its strength tlian any- thing^else." 'Indignation took, pos session of 4he : lady, and she told -" jour-devil" to.:fiud other quarters, .aa^ he was ^altogether too smart to live among gi'own-u'p people. Printer's'Miacellanij. . ..Sdrawlccab siht daer'f Keep-Pegging Away. A far mer frieh'd had occasion- to write the local editor of his.-paper a note the other day. In closing his note he asked, ' can yon tell nje the way " out" of present - aard times ?' Of course, we can.~ Keep -pegging away-^-live within your income, jtnd/saVe a little for a i'ainy dsy-rr sell your surplus stock and grain if yau can't get yotjr _price take what you can get: take,the money , and pay your honest debts.; and if you owe no debts, put the money at interest'and don't go on credit any more;. work steadily and bo economical makeno bad or fool trades, and fhe- first vhing/yoii know .-yon will be sitting up cross- legged, with .|>eace and . plent. Now we've told you the way out, and if you don't go, it is your owu fault. No Great Catch After. All. Irate Squire : ' Hi ! you/ Bir 1 You're fishing in my river. ^ xle^ mand what you've caught.' Fish erman : 'All right, Guv nor. I've caught a cold,-and 'ra catching the rheum aticsj and you're 'oily wel come to 'm. both.' . No man.will hate a good man so much as he who has ill-treated him. Let a'man wjhoni you have injured hate you, and there is an end to, hisjenmity. *P.epafation Crank and ftill puts an end to'his hacd.fiaeliag towards you, and even- lays the foundation of a protracted friend ship. But let a man hate you_ without s causa, save such as hia envy, or bigotry, or vanjty sup- iplies; and.his hate is less endless.- " Novel TI&e for Electricity. ."Electricity has been .applied to ii Dov>el--use in;-the JEist Indies. A platinum wire, connected with fne poles .of-, a .battery, is stretched around & -tree, and becoming; red hot,-is gently eee-sawed until it burns -.its '.why through. It is thoiighf that a- tre.e can b4 .cut' dowiL ".nthout any wast^-of timber' in about fifteen minuteB,-that woald ; require two hours fcafejl-in.the .-or- dinary way. 1*1 K31