1.   Before he left the state capital, Brown bequeathed his Republican foes a farewell present.

2.   But first he knows just the farewell present he would like.

3.   His farewell present to her was a poem, written in his best calligraphy, about the birds returning to the Akasaka Palace gardens after the war.

4.   It would be, he said, the best farewell present he could give the school that gave him so much.

5.   Afterwards each person was given a farewell present.

6.   A third place-finish would be the ideal farewell present for them.