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F. ilEVKUS & CO., llarrkiburg, I'a. K EEP UP THE FIRES ! The sub scriber is pretmred to farmh 1VLAIRS- V1ELK and MOUNTAIN COAL of tho very best qualities, in large or small quantities, on the shortest notice and at the most reasonable rates. Also, w ill attend toall kindsof HAULING with promptness and dispatch, and at as moderate prices as any man iu the business. R. R. THOMAS. Ebensburg, Nov. 21, 13"0.-3m. 1MOTTCE. The public am brrrby no- " cTtir,Mi that 1 have this day loaned a yoke of BXKKUS to Daaikl, Snydkk, and all persons jpnTT pnnrp - . . . j u U ,. a' wuuuuw uguiuat meddling or lnterroupg I with esid property. EDWARD KJN'J. Burost-ft Tt., Clearfield Co., Joy. rr, U7).3t- EBENSBURG, PA, SLe poet's gtgnrtmtnt. From Leisure Hours. OLD SANTA ( LAIS' VISIT. BY FANWIK W'AUSEB, BICK.NELL. On snow clad hills, at still midnight, The moonshine lies in beauty bright; The world is hushed in slumber now. For balmy sleep from every brow Hath smoothed away the lines of care, And stumped repose night's blesaiug there. Day's busy, bustling crowd is still. Reprieved awhile from cares that fill AH hearts wherein the pulse of life Exceeds the throbs of infant strife ; The mingled voices of the crowd No longer heard each head is bow'd 1 n mansion rich and poor abode. Forgetful of the heavy load Poor human nature has to bear. In liomtpun clad or t-iiken wear The sweeter s'cep to toil is tciven Than lo the idle, blessed of heaven, With every luxury wealth can bring ; While laborers toil and blithely sing, The rich oft yawn in discontent. And mourn at eve the day misspent. Rut midnight brings to all surcease From daylight's cares to all sweet peace ; Thus resting in the close embrace Of sleep night keeper of our race The world awaits the coming dan That Bsheis in glad Christmas morn. i uo tpiru oi mo season dt bteals swiftly, wrhile each youthful eye Close sealed remains by nature's laws, Aa o'er each house goes Santa Claus. A puck of gilts his back bestrides. As down the chimney quickly glides The fur clad ell, with pipe and whip : His twinkling eye and smiling lip A promise pive of something nice, As through the room like creeping mice His footsteps glide; he views the feet Of 6tockings which, at morn, will greet The eyes of children in the bed Where hang the stockings overhead. With nods, ard winks, and funny bbrugs, Mis well-filled pack around he lus, Until a chair lie :i is to mount. So that their number he niav count. "Oce, two, three, four 'twas five last year, (tie str.ps to wipe away a tear ;) I'll look again the smallest feet Are missing ; they have gone to meet The Babe of Reth'Iem, at whose birth The shepherds sing 'Good Will on Earth 1" He ghuice:i around ; on bed of olraw The Utile errand boy he saw ; "Ah ! there lies one I did not sec, 'Tis likely he, too, dreams of me ; To him warm clothes I'll give iustead This toy I brought the child Hint's ileid.' '1 hen stooping down and putting back The silver trumpet, from his p;ick The other gilts he quickly drew, Ard stuffed the stockii gs number two, And three, and four; the smallest ono He filled the last. When all whs done He chuckled low, and made ajpau?e, Then vanished dear old Santa Claug. Salts, guttcjjt-s, ntcbotts, tVc. THE CEiKS.HTJJAg FESTIVAL.. Au Interesting' Historical Sltelcli, The institution of the Christmas festi val is attributed by the spurious Decre tals lo Tulesphorus, who flourished in the reign ot Antoninus Pius 138-101 A. D.) but the first certain traces of it are found about the lime of Emperor Commodus, (180 102 A D.) In the reign of Diocle tian (28i-'i0o AT D ), while that ruler was keeping court at Nicomedia, he learn ed that a multitude of Christians were as sembled in thu city to celebrate the birth day of Jesus, arid having ordered the church doors to be closed, he set fire to the building, and all the worshippers per ished in the flames. It does not appear, however, that there was any uniformity in the period of ob serving the nativity among the early churches ; some held the festival in the month of May or April, others in Janua ry. It is, nevertheless, almost certain that the 2oth of December cannot be the nativity of the S iviour, for it is then the height of the rainy season in Judea, and shepherds could hardly be watching their flocks by night in the plains. Christmas not only became the parent of many later festivals, such as those of the Virgin, but especially from the 5lh to the Sib. century, gathered round if, as it were, several other festivals, partly old and partly new, so that what may be termed a Christmas Cycle sprang- up which surpassed all other groups of Christian holidays in the manifold richness of its festal usages, and furthered, more than any other, the completion of the orderly and systematic distribution of church fes tivities over the whole year. .Not casual ly or arbitrarily was the festival of the Nativity celebrated on the 2oth of De cember. Among the causes that co-op erated in fixing this period as the proper one, perhaps the most powerful was, that almost all the heathen nations regarded the winter eolsltce as a most important point of the year, as the beginning of the renewed life and activity of the powers of nature, and of the gods, who were origin ally merely the symbolical personifications of these. In more northerly countries, this fact must have made itself peculiarly palpable hence the Celts und Germans, from the oldest times, celebrated the sea son with the greatest festivities. At the winter solstice, the Germans held their great Yule-feast in commemoration of the fiery sun-wheel ; and believed that during the twelve nights reaching from the 25th of December to the Gth of January, they could trace the personal movements and interlerences on earth of their great dei- ties, Odin, lierchta, etc. Many of the beliefs and usages of the old Germans, and also ef the Komans, relating to this matter, passed over from heathenism to Christianity, and have partly survived to the present day. But the Church also sought to combat and banish and it was to a laree extent successful the deep- rooted beatbea feeling, by adding, for the THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1870. purification of the heathen customs and feasts which it retained, its liturgy, be sides dramatic reprcsenlationa of the birth of Christ and the first events . of bis life. Hence sprang the so called "Manger songs," and a multitude of Christmas carols, as well as Christmas dramas, i I. ... . . . 7 which, at certain times and places, degen eiated into farces or fools' festivals. IlenCP. lll&rt fri,:irnfaA .. I... : J 1 , w. lp,a,VUl o l a laiei pel IU(J, the Christ-trees, or Christmas trees,adorn. ed with lights and gifts, the custom of reciprocal presents, and of special Christ mas meats and dishes, such as Christmas rolls, cakes, currant-loaves, dumpling!:, etc. Thus Christmas became a universal social festival for young and old, high aud low, as no other Christian festival could have become. In the Koman Catholic Church, three masses are performed at Christmas one at midnight, one at daybreak, and one in the morning. The day is also celebrated by the Episcopal Church ; special psalms are sung ; a special preface is made in the Communion service, and in England the Athanasian Creed is said and sung. The Lutheran Church likewise observes Christ mas ; but mo.st other denominations re ject it, in its religious aspect, as a "human invention,' and us a "savoring of political will-worship," although everybody keeps it as a social holiday, on which there is u complete cessation from all business. Hut within the last hundred years, the festivities once appropriate to Christmas have much falleu olF. In England these at one time lasted with more or less bril liancy till Caudlemas, and with great spir it till Twelfth-day ; but now, a meeting in tho evening, composed, when possible, of the various branches and members of a family, is all that distinguishes the day above others. CIIU1.ST3I.4S BOXES. llIMory or an Oltl Kn-JIsli C ustom. Christmas box is the name given in England to a small money-gift to persons m an inlerier condition on the day after Christmas, which is hence called JJoxiug d-iy The term, und also the custom, are e.-sontially English, though the making of presents at this season and at the New Vear is of great antiquity. Within the memory of middle-aged persons in Eng land the practice of giving Christmas boxes or pretty presents to apprentices, domestic servants and tradesmen, had be come u serious social nuisance, more par ticularly in London, where every old cuetom seems to linger and is most diifi- ... t...' . ..I IT I 11 I. cu.i ,u jiw, uu ui. liouseuuiuers leil J. ,. . . i er an obligation to give money to the j apprentices in me snops wtieie t bey dealt, also to various inferior parish officers, in- eluding scavengers tusd lamp lighters ; while shop keepers, on the other hand, wei t Cl mis, a poem : Gladly the boy, with Christmas Bjx in hand. Throughout the town his devious route pur sues ; And of his muster's customers implores '1 tie yearly mite ; olten his cash he shakes ; The which, perchance, of coppers few consists, Whose dulcet jingle fills hi3 little soul With joy ! At length the Christmas -Iox system became such an intolerable grievance that tradesmen stuck up notices in their win (lows that no Christmas Boxes would be given, and at the same time the public authorities issued remonstrances to the same eifret. At Christmas, 18I3G, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Af fairs issued a circular to the different em bassies, requesting a discontinuance of the customary gifts to the messengers of the Foreign Department and other govern ment servants. Since ibis period the practice has greatly decreasod, doubtless to the improvement of the self respect of the parties interested. In this country it has never prevailed in such a shape as that mentioned above, Christmas presents being given nearly exclusively in families and among friends. CHRISTMAS CAROLS. The word carol (Italiau carole, a round dance probably from the Latin cctrotlct ; Welsh caroli. to reel, to dance ; the name is thence applied to the music or song ac companying such a dance ; cardlon is probably allied,) signifies a song of joy. The practice of singing carols, or, at all events, music in celebration of the nativi ty of Christ aa early as the second centu ry, is considered as proved by the circum stance that a large sarcophagus, belonging to that period, has sculptured upon it a representation of a Christian Family join ing in choral praise lor this purpose. A century or two after this, however, the Christmas Carols seem to have sadly degenerated, and became, in fact, so indu cent, that the clergy found it necessary to forbid tbera. Under the Anglo-Saxon kings, merriment and piety were quietly combined in English life, a peculiarity that affected the Christmas Carols of that period not a Utile ; but by the thirteenth century the jocosity had unhappily lapsed into what would uw be considered pro fanity. The oldest printed collection of English Christmas Carols bears the date of 1521. The majority of these, though written by men of learning, exhibit a lamentable ignorance of the character of the two most prominent persons in the carols Mary and Jesus In 152o was j kept the "sl ill ChrifMnas, on account of j lie lilacs of King Ileury ; but witU this e equally impelled to make presents BU , expecieo. iy , , c . . , . tte oiner women iu tue car to remain uncon- o the male and female servants of their j gcious of tluir ,(re(jelice wlii!e they Btudy Ltr ustomers. l bus, as relerred to in C.'irtdl- clothes. They immediately be-jin. Thev i exception, :ne sacred season appears to have been regularly celebrated with joyous music and songs during the Tudor period. In 15G2 Chrisinias Carols of a more sol emn nature were introduced. By the Puritan Parliament Christmas was abol ished altogether, and holly aud ivy were the Psalms, arranged as carols, were ad iiiaua seuitious badges; and in 1630 vertised. After the Kestoration the Christmas Carols again exhibited a hearty, cheerful, and even a jovial character. J . Those with which the dawn of Christmas J is now announced in England are generally religious, though not universally so. In France the carols at this season used to be much less sacred than gay. Often, indeed, they were grossly bacchanalian. A Street Car Sketch. How the dickens is it that the people can't let the girl of the period alone ? She can hardly open her eyes, or turn arouud but somebody undertakes to analyze her and pick her all to pieces. Here in how some inipeithient newspaper person has photographed this estimable young lady as she appears in that model of misery and discomfort, the street car : She htands upon the curb, with a little spiifcgy, up-antUdown motion, as if she had spiral aprius iu the soles of her gaiters. As the car approaches t-he sticks the point of her parasol in the direction of the driver, with a small jcik. The car stops. She gives one or two more little tpringy motiuns before she leaves the pavement, ami tLen dances to th-j car. As she ascends the step, the conductor setms to consider it absolute ly necessary to Ler sufety to place otio of his hands in the Email of her back, while, he rings tho bell with the other. She enters the car, with the spiral tpriDgs still bobbing her up ani down ; and, as the seats are full, the stauds holding hor hands iu front of her, aud gazing off" intj illimitable space, as if the one idea which never entered her mini, and never could enter it under any possible circumstances, is that sooie man wiil rise and offer her his seat. But a young mau in the coroer does ri3. arid immediately the fellow iiext to him moves quickly into the corner, as it the performance of that matoeu ver had formed the subject of anxiuus thought duriug many year of hih life. To gtt a coruer seat indeed would seem to be the chief end of man, if we remark the avidi ty with which human beings in btreet cars tetk that olject. When tha young niau ri.-MS, the young lady suddenly becomes con scious that there is something nearer to her th.in the horizon, and she givt-g two or mora little bounces, and says : "Keep your at !" The young man is embarrassed, aud siys he is going to get out soon ; whereupon the fiiir being dances toward the seat, sinks ir-to it, and preteuds that the fact of the distance ,. v..m.a man wh.wr r,,.,: ,V...f '-j j - -- w vvv-.j iwu v i m t beat, aud who is going to get out. has entire- ly laded out ot her consciousness. She smooths down her dresa aud ito sunplemen tai frippery, penatitsaud flounces, aud agaiu looks far bey nod the Confines of the car into tUre at her dress, at her hat, her sacque, her bows and ribbons, her j.-welry. her gloves, her back hair, aud her miscellaneous miliU nery, until the entire costume is photograp li ed in their memories, the price estimated, and a critical opinion formed, with a resolu tion to have a bonnet of the .same kind, or a "b;)dy" cut out upou the same pattern. When the young ladv thinks this examina- i tiou id concluded, she becomes conscious again, ami begins to look around and see how ail the other women are drcosed. She examines etch One in detail, and in a few moments she is in possession of all the uaual facts. Pieseutly a young niau with whom she is acquainted gets into the car, and he stands clutching the strap, and trying in vain to keep himself in a graceful attitude while he converses with her. Ail the women begin to wonder if she cares particularly fur him and, aa she knows their thoughts, she is so distant that the young man becomes more embarrassed than ever, and makes re newed etruggles to maintain a graceful pobl tiou. When she withes to get out she rises, smooths down her frippery again, indulges in two or three springs, and dances along the platform. The couductor then considers it imperatively necessary to once more press the small of her back. She dances down the steps, dances to the pavement, and then dances along the 6treet, lu'Iy aware of the fact that the women m the car have all turned ronnd to look at her and serenely confident io the assurance that she has on good clothes, which fit her tplendidly. As slie disappears, the conductor turns to the man who is smoking a cigar on the platform, and remarks that she is a crusher!" Bio Bclls. We have some large bells io this country, but they are of puny sizo com pared with many in the Old Woi Id : In China bells have been made of enor mous weight. Nankin was anciently famous for the largeness of its bells. At Pckin there were several bells cast in the reijjn of Zuu'.o, each weighing 120,000 pouuds. The sound of the largest Cninese bell was very poor, owiDg to it being struck with a piece of wood, instead of a metal clapper. A tell giveu to the cathedral of Moscow by the Czar Goduuof weighed 288,000 pounds, aud another giveu by the Empress Ann, proba bly th largest in the known world, weighed 432.000 pounds. The great bU at St Paul's weigh between 11,000 and 12,000 pounds, aud is ten feet in diameter. On this bell is inscribed "Richard Phslps made me, 1716 ;'T and Peter Cuntiiogham, in his 'Hand-book for London,'r tells us that it is 'never used except fur striking of the Kur, and for tolling at the deaths and funerals of any of the liojal Family, the Bishop of tjonaon. ana snouu: ne oie in bis mayoralty, the Lord lilayor." We believe, however, that it tolled at the funeral of Lord Nelson, and at the deaths and funerals of the Duke of Wellington and Dean Milman. The man who lights op at the post- oiSuo is a I. O Iibt man. ! ;... e: i, u , , Josh killings on Country Hotels. Hotels are houses of refuge, homes for the vagrants, the married man's retreat, and the bachelor's fireside. They are kept in nil sorts ov ways, some on the European plan, and many ov them on no plan at all. . A good landlord is like a good step mother, he knows his bizziness and means to do hiz duty. He knows how to rub hiz hands with oy when a traveler draws nigh, he knows how to 6mile, he knows your wife's fath er when he was living, and your wife's first husband, but he don't speak to jou about him. He kan tell you whether it will rain to-morrow or not; he hears your koui plaints with a tear in his eye, he blows up the servants at yure suggestion, and stands around reddy with a shirt collar ou as still as broken china. A man may be a good Supreme Court Judge, and at the samj time be a misera ble landlord. Most everybody thinks he kan keep a hotel (and Ihey kan), but this ackounts for the great number of hotels that air kept on the same principle that a Jusliss of the peace offiss is kept in the country during a six day's jury trial for killing soaieboddy's yellow dorg. A hotel won't keep itself and keep the landlord too, ar.d ever kure a traveler from the habit of profane swearing. I hav had this exierimeut tried on me several times, and it alwus makes me cuss vvuss. It is too often the kase that landlords go into the bizziness of hash as ministers go into the professhun, with the very best ov motives, but the poorest kind of pros pects. I don't know ov any bizziness more flatlersum thau the tavern bizziness; there dont seem to be anything to do but to stand in front of the register with a pen behind the ear and see that guests enter the house, then yank a bell rope six or seven times, and then tell John to show the gentleman to 07G, and then take four dollars and rifty cents next morning from the poor devil ov a traveler and let him went. This scem3 to be the whole und it 13 the whole thing j in most cases. You will diskover the following de Siit ipticn a mild one, ov about nine hutola out ov ten between the Atlantick and Pa ciii, k. O.-huns akrost the United States in a straight line : Your room is 15 feet 6 inches, by 9 foot 7 inches, parolellograraly. It being court week es usul all the good rooms are employed by the lawyers and Judges. Youre room is on the uppermost floor. The carpet is ingrain ingrained with dust, kerosiue ile and ink-spots of four generashuns. There is two pegs in lb9 room to hitch coats into ; one ov them broke oph and ' the other pulled out and missing. ! The buro has three legs and one a j brick. The glass to the buro swings on two pivots which have lost their grip. There is one towel on the rack, thin, but wet The rain water in the pitcher cum out of the well. The soap iz as tuff to wear as a whetstone. The soap is Bented with cinnamon ile, variegated with spots. Tbare iz 3 chairs, cane seters, one iz a rocker, and all three is busted. There iz a match box empty. There iz no kurtain lo the window, and thare don't want to be any ; you can t see out, and who kan see in ? The bell rope is kum oph about six inches this side of the ceiling. The bed is a modern slat bottom, with two mattresses, one cotton, one husk, and both harder and about az thick uz a sea bisk it. Yu inter the bed side-ways and kan feel every slat at once, az eazy az yu could the ribs of a grid-iron. j The bed is inhabited. You sleep sum, but roll over a good deal For breakfast you have a gong, and rye coffee too kold to melt butter ; fried potatoes which resemble the chips that a two inch augur makes in its journey tbro' an oak log. Bread spiled, beefctake about as thick as a blister plaster, and as tough as a bound's ear. Table covered with plates, a few scared to death pickles or one of them, and sit by endorsed crackers on the other. A pewtcrinktum castor with 3 bottles in it, one without any pepper in it, one without any mustard, and one with- two inches of drowned flies, and some vinegar in it. Servant girl, with hoop on, bangs around yo earnestly and wants to know if you want another cup ov coliee. Yu say "No mam, I thank yu' and push bick yure chair. Yu haven't eat enough to pay fur pick ing yure teeth. I an as self conseatcd az it will do for a man to be and not crack open, but I never yet conseited that I could keep a hotel. , I had rather be a higwayman than to be pome landlords I bev visited with. Tharo are hotels that are a jioy upon earth, where a raan rays his bill az cheer fjlly az he did the parson who married him, whare you kan't find the landlord unless r t liunt in the kitchen ; whare ser vauls gHi' around lika aceli or taercy NUMBER 47. whare the beds fit a man's back like the feathers on a goose, and whare the vittela tasie az tho yure wife or yure mother Lad fried them. These kind ov hotels ought tew ba built on wheels and travel ground the country ; they are just az full or real comfort cz a thanksgiving pudding, but alas ! they arc az uoplenty at double yoked eggs. Ax Undertaking. A man or.ee doubting the joys of single blessednes?, undertook to prove the Contrary by expe rience. Owing to a melancholy, not to say gratefully acknowledged illness, his wife was brought to her death bed. Unfortunately for her husband's aspi rations for freedom, her death occurred in winter, and her husband, wishing to offer every respect to her who could no longer be but the semblance of herself, ordered the pall-beares to escort the body " on their shoulders. Owing to an ex trcmely slippery pavement, they slipped while turning a sharp corner, bringing the remains to the ground with such violence that resuscitation followed. Time wore on, and the husband becama again a living monument of patience. At last the wife actually died, and her duliful spouse being obliged to ignore his private suspicion by her near relatives, was obliged to give the snme respectful orders as before. This time however, be himself formed one of the corps tie guardet and though summer was the season, he could not restrain his feelings, but as he reached that fatal corner, whispered : "Eaty round this corner, lois ! E-A-5-Y, sow I" There ia a degree of tenderness in the following, by a very sentimental man, that vommends it to the business an! be soms of all of like sensibility. It reveals a chapter of human experience iu which everybody i3 interested, though the de nouement is probably rare. The authof entitles it "My Early Love :" It was an ardent boyl-'h lore, That faded out as life grew oldr; 31 y heart flew t- her like a dove. And lighted on her beauteous shoulder, Or sipped the honey of her lips. Or in her eyes found heavenly graces I loved her to her linger tips I loved her very lootpriat traces! Iler features wore a rapturous charm. Her smile made all within me fluLterj In rounded beauty was her arm, Her little hand was fat as butter I Xo wonder that I loved her so. But she was false as she was pretty. And soon she sacked her little beau, And took a big oe from the city. I Hught him out one moonlight night,. 'Twas one of lore's extremest phases I aggravated him to fight. But, oh ! he larruped me like blares ! Old Bibles. In the Strasbourg library there was a wonderful collection of the Bi bles first printed, the oldest bearing the im press of -'Mentolio, 1466." Iu it Mosea i pictured with horns; and there is also picture of Satan sinitiug Job with boils, iu which the figure of the devil carries us baclt to the pre historic and pagm ideas of evi! spirits, for he is no other th.fc a hairy Satyr, such as we find in classical mythologies. Ia a manuscript Bible, written with great bean- ty and illumination, in thu year A. 1). 1192, we come to a very primiti7e rearm of idea indeed. For example, Adam and Ere ar pictured as two plump and pretty children, and tbfc devil, who offers little Eve the apple, is a beantiful woman with golden hair rolled up so as to form a crown ; from the waist down she is a serpent. Among other illu minations belonging to tho twelfth century BIS3., there was one in perfect colors repre senting God the Father. He was represent ed as a young man of great bat severe beauty and flowing hair, looking npon an open book. In another the Tiinity was pictured aslbre0 beautiful youths with physiognomies similar enoagh for thera to bt regarded & tripleu, Mr. David Cbowlet, an expressman at Boston, is the oniy survivor of a catastrophe? which, thirty-one years ago, filled the conn try with horror and distress. We allude to the burning of the steamer Lexington ou Long Island Sound, on- the night of the 15th) of January, 18-10. The preservation of Mr, Crowley was one of the moat miraculous in stances of human endurance ever recorded. He made bis escape on a bale of cotton, ant floated on the rough aad i?y waters of ther Sound forty-eight hoars drifting daring that time more than fifty miles, the tempera ture ranging at and below zero, with no other protection from the freezing blasts and fro zen spray than that offered by a woolen ihirt, woolen drawers and thin Hot. whh eottout socks no cap or protection of any dehcrip tion fr bis head, or bands. ThU almost incredible exposure, which would have ex tinguished ordinary httman life in a few minutes, never sertonsly affected the consti tution of Jlr. Cowley, and be bid fair to reach a hale and hearty old age. The Slayfield, Kentucky, Democrat has the following : A most remarkable cir cumstance occurred in our county lately, a the residence of Dr. J. Ii. Patterson, who re sides within two miles of SlaySeld. lr November, 1869", hh wifs presented hirnr with three girl bahies, which, however, died, and in December," 1 870, she presentee? hits with two bry babies, weighing eight pounds each, and whichjaro now living aoif doing well. Thus in thirteen Ecarhs ho ned born to him five babies. VTg ie glad1 to state that Dr. Patterson is one of our best and most accomplished citizens, and is abl to stand it. But who-can beat this?' Two LADisa were5 talking a hoot sparrow -, and their usefulness- in ridding the city of the canker worms which used to be such a nui sance." One said that the Boisy chirping off the sparrows, early iu the morning, when.' she wanted to sleep, was as graafc n evil a ths worms ; the other disagreed. Just the.- a gentlemaa came in and was appealed to ; Mr. A., which do you think the wortt'- sparrows or worms ?T' He itnmediaieiy aa swered. "1 dca't kuow I cTr had 8rat. Ii
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