on 4/12/05 9:26 PM, [log in to unmask] at [log in to unmask] wrote: > "I determined to be upon the ground at an early hour. Now I dislike to be > exploded, as it were, out of my balmy slumbers, by a sudden, stormy > assault upon my door, and an imperative order to "Get up!" - wherefore I > requested one of the intelligent porters of the Lick House to call at my > palatial apartments, and murmur gently through the key-hole the magic > monosyllable "Hash!" That "fetched me." MT also liked his breakfast, perhaps often consisting of simple "hash" and eggs? -- Fred Harwood American Institute for Economic Research Gt. Barrington MA 01230-1000