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𝐹𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠: “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡.” "𝐼𝑡'𝑠𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑢𝑝 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡." -- 𝐶𝑁𝐵𝐶 [Main logotype Expert Modern Advice](       Dear Investor, China has just launched a hypersonic nuclear missile, sending shockwaves around the world. [𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥]( 💁 ♂️ [Here's America's response to it.]( “The Buck Stops Here” Dylan Jovine, CEO & Founder, Behind the Markets He said he would like to see the widow me. He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he ked of a place six or seven mile to stow me in, w they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn’t find me. That made me pretty uneasy again, but for a minute; I reckoned I wouldn’t stay on hand till he got that . The old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had got. T was a fifty-pound sack of corn meal, and a side of bacon, ammunition, and a four-gon jug of whisky, and an old book and two spapers for wadding, besides some tow. I toted up a load, and went back and set down on the bow of the skiff to rest. I thought it over, and I reckoned I would walk with the gun and some lines, and take to the woods when I run away. I guessed I wouldn’t stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn’t ever find me any more. I judged I would saw out and that night if pap got drunk enough, and I reckoned he would. I got so full of it I didn’t notice how long I was staying till the old man hollered and asked me whether I was asleep or drownded. I got the things up to the cabin, and then it was about dark. While I was cooking supper the old man took a swig or two and got sort of warmed up, and went to ripping again. He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would a thought he was Adam—he was just mud. Whe his liquor begun to work he most always went for the govment. his time he says: C this a govment! why, just look at it and see what it’s like. ’s the law a-standing ready to take a man’s son away from him— a man’s own son, which he has had the trouble and the anxiety and the expense of raising. Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin’ for him and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him. And they c that govment! That ain’t , nuther. The law backs that old Judge Thatcher up and helps him to keep me out o’ my property. ’s what the law does: The law takes a man worth six thousand and up’ards, and jams him into an old trap of a cabin like this, and lets him go round in clothes that ain’t fitten for a hog. They c that govment! A man can’t his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I’ve a mighty notion to just the country for good and . Yes, and I told ‘em so; I told old Thatcher so to his face. Lots of ‘em heard me, and can tell what I said. Says I, for two cents I’d the blamed country and come a-near it agin. Them’s the very words. I says look at my hat—if you c it a hat—but the lid raises up and the rest of it goes down till it’s below my chin, and then it ain’t rightly a hat at , but more like my head was shoved up through a jint o’ stove-pipe. Look at it, says I—such a hat for me to wear—one of the wealthiest men in this town if I could git my rights. Oh, yes, this is a derful govment, derful. Why, looky . T was a nigger t from Ohio—a mulatter, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and t ain’t a man in that town that’s got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane—the awfulest old gray-headed nabob in the State. And what do you think? They said he was a p’fessor in a college, and could talk kinds of languages, and ked everything. And that ain’t the wust. They said he could vote when he was at . Well, that let me out. Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? It was ‘lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn’t too drunk to t; but when they told me t was a State in this country w they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll vote agin. Them’s the very words I said; they heard me; and the country may rot for me— I’ll vote agin as long as I live. And to see the cool way of that nigger—why, he wouldn’t a give me the road if I hadn’t shoved him out o’ the way. I says to the people, why ain’t this nigger put up at auction and sold?—that’s what I want to k. And what do you reckon they said? Why, they said he couldn’t be sold till he’d been in the State six months, and he hadn’t been t that long yet. T, —that’s a specimen. They c that a govment that can’t sell a nigger till he’s been in the State six months. ’s a govment that cs itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet’s got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a hold of a prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted nigger, and— Pap was agoing on so he noticed w his old limber legs was taking him to, so he went head over heels over the tub of salt pork and barked both shins, and the rest of his speech was the hottest kind of language—mostly hove at the nigger and the govment, though he give the tub some, too, along, and t. He hopped around the cabin considerable, first on one leg and then on the other, holding first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left foot of a sudden and fetched the tub a rattling kick. But it warn’t good judgment, because that was the boot that had a couple of his toes leaking out of the front end of it; so he raised a howl that fairly made a body’s hair raise, and down he went in the dirt, and rolled t, and held his toes; and the cussing he done then laid over anything he had ever done previous. He said so his own self afterwards. He had heard old Sowberry Hagan in his best days, and he said it laid over him, too; but I reckon that was sort of piling it on, maybe. After supper pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky t for two drunks and one delirium tremens. That was always his word. I judged he would be blind drunk in about an hour, and then I would steal the key, or saw myself out, one or t’other. He drank and drank, and tumbled down on his blankets by and by; but luck didn’t run my way. He didn’t go sound asleep, but was uneasy. He groaned and moaned and thrashed around this way and that for a long time. At last I got so sleepy I couldn’t keep my eyes I could do, and so before I ked what I was about I was sound asleep, and the candle burning. I don’t k how long I was asleep, but of a sudden t was an awful scream and I was up. T was pap looking wild, and skipping around every which way and yelling about snakes. He said they was crawling up his legs; and then he would give a jump and scream, and say one had bit him on the cheek—but I couldn’t see no snakes. He started and run round and round the cabin, hollering Take him ! take him ! he’s biting me on the neck! I see a man look so wild in the eyes. Pretty he was fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled over and over derful , kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming and saying t was devils a-hold of him. He wore out by and by, and laid still a while, moaning. Then he laid stiller, and didn’t make a sound. I could hear the owls and the wolves away in the woods, and it seemed terrible still. He was laying over by the corner. By and by he raised up part way and listened, with his head to one side. He says, very low: Tramp—tramp—tramp; that’s the dead; tramp—tramp—tramp; they’re coming after me; but I ’t go. Oh, they’re ! don’t touch me—don’t! hands —they’re cold; let go. Oh, let a poor devil alone! Then he went down on fours and crawled , begging them to let him alone, and he rolled himself up in his blanket and wowed in under the old pine table, still a-begging; and then he went to crying. I could hear him through the blanket. By and by he rolled out and jumped up on his feet looking wild, and he see me and went for me. He chased me round and round the place with a clasp-knife, cing me the Angel of Death, and saying he would kill me, and then I couldn’t come for him no more. I begged, and told him I was Huck; but he laughed SUCH a screechy laugh, and roared and cussed, and kept on chasing me up. Once when I turned short and dodged under his arm he made a grab and got me by the jacket between my shoulders, and I thought I was gone; but I slid out of the jacket quick as lightning, and saved myself. Pretty he was tired out, and dropped down with his back against the door, and said he would rest a minute and then kill me. He put his knife under him, and said he would sleep and strong, and then he would see who was who. So he dozed pretty . By and by I got the old split-bottom chair and clumb up as easy as I could, not to make any noise, and got down the gun. I slipped the ramrod down it to make sure it was loaded, then I laid it across the turnip barrel, pointing towards pap, and set down behind it to wait for him to stir. And how slow and still the time did drag along.   I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I noticed a decided similarity between the dog’s way of eating, and the man’s. The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog. He swowed, or rather snapped up, every mouthful, too and too ; and he looked sideways and t while he ate, as if he thought t was danger in every direction of somebody’s coming to take the pie away. He was altoher too unsettled in his mind over it, to appreciate it comfortably I thought, or to have anybody to dine with him, without making a chop with his jaws at the visitor. In of which particulars he was very like the dog. I am afraid you ’t any of it for him, said I, timidly; after a silence during which I had hesitated as to the politeness of making the remark. T’s no more to be got w that came from. It was the certainty of this f that impelled me to er the hint. I der you shouldn’t have been sure of that, I returned, for we heard it up at , and that’s farther away, and we were shut in besides. Why, see ! said he. When a man’s alone on these flats, with a light head and a light stomach, perishing of cold and want, he hears nothin’ night, but guns firing, and voices cing. Hears? He sees the soldiers, with their red coats lighted up by the torches carried afore, closing in round him. Hears his number ced, hears himself chenged, hears the rattle of the muskets, hears the s ‘Make ready! Present! Cover him steady, men!’ and is laid hands on—and t’s nothin’! Why, if I see one pursuing party last night—coming up in , Damn ’em, with their tramp, tramp—I see a hundred. And as to firing! Why, I see the mist shake with the cannon, arter it was broad day,—But this man; he had said the rest, as if he had forgotten my being t; did you notice anything in him? Mrs. Joe, said Uncle Pumblechook, a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been but choked, and had that moment come to, I have brought you as the compliments of the season—I have brought you, Mum, a bottle of sherry wine—and I have brought you, Mum, a bottle of port wine. Every Christmas Day he presented himself, as a profound novelty, with exly the same words, and carrying the two bottles like dumb-bells. Every Christmas Day, Mrs. Joe replied, as she replied, O, Un—cle Pum-ble—chook! This is kind! Every Christmas Day, he retorted, as he retorted, It’s no more than your merits. And are you bobbish, and how’s Sixpennorth of halfpence? meaning me. We dined on these occasions in the kitchen, and adjourned, for the nuts and oranges and apples to the parlour; which was a change very like Joe’s change from his working-clothes to his Sunday dress. My sister was uncomm lively on the present occasion, and indeed was genery more gracious in the society of Mrs. Hubble than in other company. I remember Mrs. Hubble as a little curly sharp-edged person in sky-blue, who held a conventiony juvenile position, because she had married Mr. Hubble,—I don’t k at what remote period,—when she was much younger than he. I remember Mr Hubble as a tough, high-shouldered, stooping old man, of a sawdusty fragrance, with his legs extraordinarily wide apart: so that in my short days I always saw some miles of country between them when I met him coming up the lane. Among this good company I should have felt myself, even if I hadn’t robbed the pantry, in a false position. Not because I was squeezed in at an acute angle of the tablecloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not owed to speak (I didn’t want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain. No; I should not have minded that, if they would have left me alone. But they wouldn’t me alone. They seemed to think the lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every and then, and stick the point into me. I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads. It began the moment we sat down to dinner. Mr. Wopsle said grace with theatrical declamation,—as it appears to me, something like a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third,—and ended with the very proper aspiration that we might be truly gful. Upon which my sister fixed me with her eye, and said, in a low reproachful voice, Do you hear that? Be gful. Especiy, said Mr. Pumblechook, be gful, boy, to them which brought you up by hand. Mrs. Hubble shook her head, and contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to no good, asked, Why is it that the young are gful? This moral mystery seemed too much for the company until Mr. Hubble tersely solved it by saying, Natery wicious. Everybody then murmured True! and looked at me in a particularly unpleasant and personal manner. Joe’s station and influence were something feebler (if possible) when t was company than when t was none. But he always aided and comforted me when he could, in some way of his own, and he always did so at dinner-time by giving me gravy, if t were any. T being plenty of gravy to-day, Joe spooned into my plate, at this point, about half a pint. A little later on in the dinner, Mr. Wopsle reviewed the sermon with some severity, and intimated—in the usual hypothetical case of the Church being thrown —what kind of sermon he would have given them. After favouring them with some heads of that discourse, he remarked that he considered the subject of the day’s homily, ill chosen; which was the less excusable, he added, when t were so many subjects going about. True again, said Uncle Pumblechook. You’ve hit it, sir! Plenty of subjects going about, for them that k how to put salt upon their tails. That’s what’s wanted. A man needn’t go far to find a subject, if he’s ready with his salt-box. Mr. Pumblechook added, after a short interval of reflection, Look at Pork alone. T’s a subject! If you want a subject, look at Pork! True, sir. Many a moral for the young, returned Mr. Wopsle,—and I k he was going to lug me in, before he said it; might be deduced from that text. (You listen to this, said my sister to me, in a severe parenthesis.) Joe gave me some more gravy. Swine, pursued Mr. Wopsle, in his deepest voice, and pointing his fork at my blushes, as if he were mentioning my Christian ,—swine were the companions of the prodigal. The gluttony of Swine is put before us, as an example to the young. (I thought this pretty well in him who had been praising up the pork for being so plump and juicy.) What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy. But I don’t mean in that , sir, returned Mr. Pumblechook, who had an objection to being interrupted; I mean, enjoying himself with his elders and betters, and improving himself with their conversation, and rolling in the lap of . Would he have been doing that? No, he wouldn’t. And what would have been your destination? turning on me again. You would have been disposed of for so many shillings according to the market of the article, and Dunstable the butcher would have come up to you as you lay in your straw, and he would have whipped you under his left arm, and with his right he would have tucked up his frock to a penknife from out of his waistcoat-pocket, and he would have shed your blood and had your . No bringing up by hand then. Not a bit of it! Joe ered me more gravy, which I was afraid to take. He was a world of trouble to you, ma’am, said Mrs. Hubble, commiserating my sister. Trouble? echoed my sister; trouble? and then entered on a fearful catalogue of the illnesses I had been guilty of, and the s of sleeplessness I had committed, and the high places I had tumbled from, and the low places I had tumbled into, and the injuries I had done myself, and the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go t. I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle’s Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled. But, I had endured up to this time was nothing in comparison with the awful feelings that took possession of me when the pause was broken which ensued upon my sister’s recital, and in which pause everybody had looked at me (as I felt painfully conscious) with indignation and abhorrence. Yet, said Mr. Pumblechook, leading the company gently back to the theme from which they had strayed, Pork—regarded as biled—is rich, too; ain’t it? Have a little brandy, uncle, said my sister. O Heavens, it had come at last! He would find it was weak, he would say it was weak, and I was lost! I held tight to the leg of the table under the cloth, with both hands, and awaited my fate. My sister went for the stone bottle, came back with the stone bottle, and poured his brandy out: no one else taking any. The wretched man trifled with his glass,—took it up, looked at it through the light, put it down,—prolonged my misery. this time Mrs. Joe and Joe were briskly clearing the table for the pie and pudding. I couldn’t keep my eyes him. Always holding tight by the leg of the table with my hands and feet, I saw the miserable creature finger his glass playfully, take it up, smile, throw his head back, and drink the brandy . ly afterwards, the company were seized with unspeakable consternation, owing to his springing to his feet, turning round several times in an apping spasmodic whooping-cough dance, and rushing out at the door; he then became visible through the window, violently plunging and expectorating, making the most hideous faces, and apparently out of his mind. I held on tight, while Mrs. Joe and Joe ran to him. I didn’t k how I had done it, but I had no doubt I had murdered him somehow. In my dreadful situation, it was a relief when he was brought back, and surveying the company round as if they had disagreed with him, sank down into his chair with the one significant gasp, Tar! I had filled up the bottle from the tar-water jug. I k he would be worse by and by. I moved the table, like a of the present day, by the vigor of my unseen hold upon it. Tar! cried my sister, in amazement. Why, how ever could Tar come t? But, Uncle Pumblechook, who was omnipotent in that kitchen, wouldn’t hear the word, wouldn’t hear of the subject, imperiously waved it away with his hand, and asked for hot gin and water. My sister, who had begun to be alarmingly meditative, had to employ herself ively in ting the gin, the hot water, the sugar, and the lemon-peel, and mixing them. For the time being at least, I was saved. I still held on to the leg of the table, but clutched it with the fervor of gratitude. By degrees, I became calm enough to release my grasp and partake of pudding. Mr. Pumblechook partook of pudding. partook of pudding. The course terminated, and Mr. Pumblechook had begun to beam under the genial influence of gin and water. I began to think I should over the day, when my sister said to Joe, Clean plates,—cold. I clutched the leg of the table again , and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and of my soul. I foresaw what was coming, and I felt that this time I rey was gone. You must taste, said my sister, addressing the guests with her best grace—you must taste, to finish with, such a delightful and delicious present of Uncle Pumblechook’s! Must they! Let them not hope to taste it! You must k, said my sister, rising, it’s a pie; a savory pork pie.     ExpertModernAdvice.com is sending this newsletter on behalf Inception Media Group. IMG appreciates your comments and inquiries. 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