uncles than uncle tom's cabin it sold during its first year and it turned black into one of the 19th centuries bestselling books. there's more to say about angel but but talk about henry burke. henry burke was first a sort of wealthy of new york, but without underemployed and, you know, sort of a gadabout and toward europe or maybe maybe he he europe with his wife where he had his first sort of animal awakening, a disturbing watching a bullfight in spain. he joined the foreign service under the lincoln administration then and served in russia. he had his second sort of awakening, watching a drunk driver beating a horse and he stepped out of his carriage resplendent in gold lace. and the jockey driver sort of dropped the stick was so apologetic. and that's when he realized, you know, he he sort of leverage his his power to help animals. and so he was he was a convert. and and on his way back to the states, went to london, where there was already an extent spca and sort of learned how they operated and then brought the idea back to new york where in just whirlwind few months he got a petition signed by all the city fathers. he went to albany and got a charter for the. he legi