Ditto -- excellent poem. Just settling down with Garrigue and Kees, so thanks also to those tipsters. Garrigue's 'The Mouse' is a fine piece . . . Praise him who sweetens On a small hate. To anyone who might know, is Jean pronounced in the English or the French fashion? This might be a silly question . . . I'm reminded though of my old music teacher at Bell Baxter, who confesed that, in his youth, he pronounced Goethe as though it were a single-syllable word rhyming approximately with ''loaf". Andy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%