Forest fires have often been started from wantonness; for the sake of making a big blaze, fires will be carelessly left by guides, or will be smouldering in the duff,* where it will burn for weeks. I have seen the smoke from fires in the duff even after the snow has fallen.

• Local term for the vegetable growth covering the forest ground of the Adirondacks. under the spruce trees, the falling needles accumulate to considerable depth, forming the spruce duff, a peculiar and interesting variety of forest humus.

A widespread belief in the AAF is that foam—a heavy soapy, sudsy substance—is the principal agent used in crash fire fighting .

How would you, or how do you think I should, relish being the object of such a letter as Kean wrote t'other day to a poor author, who, though a pedantic blockhead, had at least the right to be treated as a gentleman by a copper-laced two-penny tearmouth, rendered mad by conceit and success?

It did not change during the cell cycle, indicating that these changes were dependent on the presence of CPE, and poly(A) tails were generally long, maintaining the long poly(A) tails acquired co-transcriptionally, and therefore indicating that CPEs are required for deadenylation of the mature transcript as well as for later readenylation at specific cell cycle phases.