A Little While.
If 1 could see thee once again
A little while, once more,
=] tender heart 1 might regain
nd my lost peace restore;
Yon would forget the scorn you felt—
Sopenitent 1'd be,
You would forgive while low I knelt,
If] might only see
Thy bright eyes smile on me;
Only a little while,
Only once more,
If I should see thee once again,
Aud flad thee stern and cold,
And ever dead -—ah, bitter pain—
The bright, strong love of old;
Yea—even while I felt your scorn-—
All bitter though it be
And my sad heart with grief were torn,
I'd welcome misery,
If I thy face could see;
Only a little while,
Only once more,
RTL
“BENEATH HIM.”
Viena Walter Merrill went away to
zotlege, everybody predicted a brilliant
future for the lad of nineteen. In the
quite farming community, back in the
New Hampshire hills, events of any
importance were few and far between.
The boys and girls grew up and tilled
the farms and tended the homesteads
of their fathers or settled on adjacent
little farms of their own, It was an
unprecedented event in
John Merrill sent his oldest son to Har-
vard., It was rumored that John Mer-
rill, who had a shrewd eye for making
in soe western mines and realized a
comtior.able little fortune, At
rate, Walter was to turn
edncate himself, or rather be educated,
for something great no doubt.
the presidential ehair itself,
alter knowledge,” he boasted.
goin’ to give him a chance if |
had none myself, He'll show
fellers at the college that they’ll have
never
him.”
Walter, though a handsome . fellow
ily keen in intellect, was not a general
favorite in the place of his nativity.
‘There was a certain
superiority about him that repelled his
associates,
of leaving home, counted onthe friend-
ship of any of his young companions;
save one, and that was a girl of seven-
teen.
Sweet Lettie Linden!
For miles
music.
disappear as the frost melts after sun-
rise. Not a girl in all the region ever
den As well might they be jealous of
the birds and flowers and sunshine,
She was music, sweetness and bright.
ness—as they were—and who could help
loving her?
Waiter Merrill's admiration for this
two less intense than his admiration
for himself, They had been
mates in the unpretentious Academy,
from whose halls of learning the youths
and maidens within a radius of twenty
or thirty miles had graduated and con-
sidered their education “finished,”
was ten miles from the hittle settlement
of farms to the academy, and the visits
home were made but once a
A farm wagon, filled with straw, came
regularly the last Friday afternoon of
sach month and bore the dozen hilari-
ous students home fora holiday,
turning Monday morning, bright and
early.
Walter and Lettie meassured swords
throughout the two years course, Let-
scholarship. Perhaps it was this
that kept him from
If he triumphed over her in a single in-
stance, her sweet, generous admission
than when she said modestly:
‘*Walter, it was real good ot you Lo
jet mo be the winner this time. Will
you de it again some time?”
tle would never have replied to any-
one else as he did to her—
“You know, Lettie, that I do not
give you victory; that 1 do my level best
10 hold my own.”
She had a beneficial influence over
him, but it never extended to anybody
alse, it only had the effect of making
him her firm friend against all others,
and eventually his more than friend.
When he went away to college, he
seemed to unsophisticated Lettie a bero
going forth to win renown-not in the
battle field but in the struggle for
knowledge. She doubted not he would
drink deep of the Plenien Spring. It
never worried her that he would go far
abiead of her in the book-contest, now.
she was content and happy in picturing
ihe future, though she never forgot the
present, in which centered a fond
father and mother and three brothers.
The Lindens were well-to-do far-
roers, nothing more, The three sturdy
boys helped their father on the farm,
and Lettie and her gentle mother per-
formed the household duties, Neat-
ness and order reigned—from kitchen
to living-room. No matter whether,
the sun shone on the outer world or not
there was always sunlight in the face
of the daughter of the house—suulight
without a shadow, The shadow had
yet to come.
The weeks and mouths went un-
eventfully by. Each week, however,
had an event of great interest to Lettie
in the shape of letters from Walter,
Al first they were long and abounded
in expressions of tender affection, But
that enthusiasm lasted only a few weeks
'y
wer,” Lettie .
like him better, I
been away for so
8 ie souat much
0
—
ing—not the silly novels that the other
irls read, though she had a keen relish
or the romance of standard authors—
but books on travels, history and biog-
raphy. These accumulated on her
bookshelves in her dainty chamber un-
der the eaves, as fast as her father and
brothers could spare the means to pur-
chase them. . .
“Walter shall not find me standing
entirely still where I droppad out of
the Academy,” was her source of in-
spiration. #*He will be so surprised and
pleased to find that I am trying to
make myself a ft companion for him
in the far off years to come.’
Alas for Lettie's dreams of the eom-
ing summer vacation! Walter wrote,
in a careless hasty letter, that he pro-
posed spending his vacation visiting
some relatives in Rhode Island,
Lettie wept the first tears of real sor-
row she had ever shed; but it was only
a shower, and after it the sun came out
brighter than ever,
*‘I must not be selfish,” she told her
mother, her only confidant. “It will do
Walter so much good to see a little of
the world. He is twenty, now, and
never has seen New York City.
not blame him for wanting to go there
and to his uncle’s in Providence? Do
you, mother?®’
Jo5 Wan in a community of men who
become rich from coal mine specu-
lations,
He had been but two days in the
beautiful thrifty village, when in visit-
ing the college buildings which were
spacious and thronged with students he
encountered an old class-mate of Har-
yard.
“Why, Merrilll Glad to see you,”
was the young man’s hearty greeting.
He was perhaps thirty vears of age,
singularly handsome and moble in ap-
pearance, with high-bred, intelligent
features,
“Rodney Lyun!” criod Merrill, “Are
you taking a course here after gradua-
ting from little Harvard?”
There was a half sarcasm
juestion.
“0, no.
Natural
Answer.
“What!”
Professor Lynn repeated the state-
in the
I am fling the Chair of
Sciences,” was the modest
ment and added smiling.
**Are you surprised?”
“0, no, You were the best student |
“*Which is a great concession, I per-
celve, Well, I am very busy; have a
recitation Immediately, Willyoucome |
mto my class-room?”’
“No, dear, I don’t know as I do,”
was the gentle reply. Then she thought
inwardly—" Your father would never |
have disappointed me in this way, long |
ago.”
“And, mother,” Lettie went on, “a |
little travel will give him polish. How |
handsome he will be, with the addition |
world,"
“1t spoils sume men, dear child,” |
sald Mrs. Linden. |
“But not Walter, mother.” The
1
fond |
flushed,
“What
Lb J
is it, darling, the
“Nothing—only—I did want to see |
him so much, Never mind, it’s all |
“Do you love him very dearly, my |
child?” the mother asked, a little anx- |
fously. {
“I think I do, mother, though no- |
I can never think he
will be untrue,”
**[ trust not, Lettie, for your sake.” |
The following autumn, the quniet |
peighborkood was startled by the sud- |
den breaking-up and moving away of
the whole Merrill family. When Let-
were going west, her
would never come |
His letters, for
Walter
lar and unsatisfactory. :
Tne Merrills were gone and the win-
ter storms set in. By Christmas, Wal-
Upon entering the after-holiday term,
he wrote a cruel, selfish wvaledictory to |
Lettie was not |
him had been |
flush of
brief, self.
ed over her face an angry
iG~
“I find, Lettie,” he sald *‘that as]
my broad culture, I am |
leaving you far behind. 1 have other
matters of deeper importance than a
boyish love affair to occupy my teem-
ing brain and valuable tims, I have a
When that is made I
may find time to choose a wife, bat 1
am convinced that my wife must stand
me in education. A
eep learning must necessarily
marries a wo- |
man of}
ter how charming or br ght she may be,
You are a dear, good girl Lettie, and
are worthy of a good husband. I know
you will find one somewhere about
You would never
widely diverged since I asked you to
walt for me to make you a home in the
world. Don’t take my plain statement
to heart, but forget me, for I shall
never come back to the detested old |
13 behind the |
“Take it to heart!” cried the usually
the letter to her father and her mother,
**He shall see that I do not.”
It was more anger than sorrow that
night, In her downy bed under the
snow-covered eaves, Bus her heart
came out of the ordeal unscathed. Dy
spring she was the same Lettie Linden
as of old, with one exception. Her
rosy cheeks were a trifle pale, especial-
ly after her lamp had barned till the
“wee small hours” and her pen had
scratched over dozans of pages of note
books, Her desk, in one corner of the
warm sitting room was sarrounded
by books without number—books that
few girls ever dreamed of reading.
New hats and dresses were voluntarily
given up for books and current maga-
zines, The Latin she had mastered at
the Academy she had never allowed to
grow rusty but without any teacher
save the old Romans themselves, she
delved into Cmssar, Cicero and Virgil.
“I am going to prove it true that
books can teach without the aid of men
if there is no other way,” she declared.
Who would have believed that gen
tle Lettie Linden could be so strong-
minded? ;
Her reward came sooner than she
dared dream. An unusually fine crop
that year made it possible for the kind-
hearted father to give this earnest little
woman better anities, She suc-
entrance examina
i
“I should be pleased to do so, Lynn, |
engagement. Where do |
you live? Do you board?”
“I live 1n a lovely cottage over yon-
No I do not board.
1 am a married man.”
“Whew! How long did you
find a woman up to your mental cali- |
bre?”
“I found one, three years ago, far
above my capacity of mind, beart and |
everything. If you will come around |
since
“Thanks, I will do so. Don’tlet me
binder you any longer.”
A little after noon. Walter Merrill
raug the bell at Professor Lynn’s beau.
tiful modern cottage. HN old friend |
met him at the door and ushered him
“My wife will ba in presently. She |
went out to issue an order about lunch,
finding that I bad invited a guest. Be |
seated. I
After a few minutes of busy conver. |
sation, principally relating to their
present vocations a light footstep sound-
ed in the hall and Professor Lynn rose |
as his wife entered the room. i
*“‘lLettie, this Is Mr, Merrill; Merrill, |
my wife. She tells me that she knew |
Merrill rose and a puzzled look came
over his face.
“Mrs. Lynn, did your husband
you ‘Lettie,’ he stammered.
“My name was Lettie Linden back
in the dear old Granits State," was the
The sweet voice was
unchanged, though little Lettie had |
grown into a brilliantly beautiful wo-
man.
Merrill's face was scarlet,
experienced a more
hour than the one spent
Lynn's lunch table.
“Where did you find your wife, |
Lynn?’ was the only question he asked
relating to the past,
“I first met her when rad the
valedictory of ber class at the time she
graduated from the Boston University,
five years ago. 1 was present at the |
call
He never |
uncomfortable |
at Professor |
i
she
ted at the time. 1 fell in love with
Lettie, then and there, and afterward |
visited her at the Linden homestead,
It was there I told her that the first
syllable of her name was name enough.”
It was a relief to Merrill when
college-bell broke up the party.
The next day he left town, its “at.
mosphere of culture’ being too much
for him. For the first time in his life
he owned himself a fool.
the |
A ———————
Healthy Occupations
The first piace among healthy occu- |
pations is held by ministers of religion, |
the death rate of tnis class being 555. |
Next we have gardeners and nursery- |
men, who stand at 509; farmers and |
graciers, 031; agricultural laborers,
701; school-masters, 718: the other
‘ trades which follow closely on these
being grocers, coal merchants, paper
manufacturers, lace and hosiery manu-
| facturers, wheelwrights, ship-builders,
shipwrights and coal miners, The
| figure of mortality for these trades is
715,
unhealthy occupations, the first place
cerned in the manufacture and distri-
bution of intoxicating dnnk, which, as
is well known, entail many temptations
to mse it to excess, The list of un-
healthy occupations is headed by the
class of {hn and hotel servants, whose
figure mounts up to 1505, being double
that of the medical profession. The
highest places next to them are held by
the general laborers of London, and by
coster-mongers, hawkers and street
sellers, the former class with 2,020, and
the latter with 1.879. It is probable
that both are Mrgely made up of bro-
ken men, the wrecks of other callings,
Innkeepers, publicans, spirit, wine and
besr-dealers follow with a figure of
1,621, and brewers with 1.361, In
support of the belief that these high
rates of mortality are chiefly due to
alcoholic excess, Dr, Ogle has compared
with them the mortality assigned to
diseases of the liver, the organ through
which such excess chiefly declares
itself, and has obtained results which
are entirely in harmony with those of the
trade returns. Next to the trades con.
cerned with alcohol the highest rates are
farnished by occu which involve
the breathing of dust-—other than coal
ust—and of a sharp and
posed of
mineral matter; next, those in which
port Ring io Sole and Es
The earthen
are h exposed to ARO: ud
muc m ve
a figure of 1,742; Nlemakers, who
upon a leaden cushion, reach 1,667,
plumbers and ters, who are
exposed to reach 1,202,
mong popular new styles
¥ hoss tor Ss wear.
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Horse Cars in Vienna.
Green cars were trotting along the
great Ring Strasse, on which the hotel
is, and I told the portier that I wanted
to ride in ome of them, Having got to
the Vienna horse cars, it is just as well
to tell about them, for they are like
those which carry our free and inde-
pendent voters only inasmuch as they
are drawn by two unhappy horses that
can be fastened on at either end of the
CAr,
First they cut the car up into two
compartments, one®for those who do
and one for those who do not smoke,
Then the seats are put in after a most
charmingly original fashion, with any
nuiaber of aisles, and, finally, the con-
ductor, who completes the outfit, isa
poem all by himself. Iis uniform in
point of gorgeousness and complexity
would serve as an excellent model for a
country regiment of militia, And his
state of perfect contentment is some-
thing cheerful to look upon. The pas-
sengers who uavel with him and from
whom he collects fares are all about
his equals, and while his politeness is
is in his
is nearly always red
on board some
way to her end of the car, and the ne-
the dispirited collector of
nickels, There is missing that out.
raged class of beings which In America
of Vienna, while it may not be the
As in Paris, there is a limit to the
interests of
the limnt is reached
when every seat every asle, and both
low a sandwich the sides of the
The
where yoa want to
learns
sells you
conductor
go, and
and three fourths to three and eight.
ninths cents,
This afternoon I traveled three and
eight ninths cents’ worth, and gave the
conductor a piece of silverpiated money
of which a
, out
in change was due me, Theconductor
dove down and got up the exact change.
t occurred to me that I would
what effect surprise would have on a
Vienna car conductor, so I gavea slight
sweep with my right band, and said
what meant for him to keep the change
--—-
Hing
A View of the Earth.
If we imagine an observer contempla-
ting the earth from a convenisnt
tance in space and scrutinizing its fea-
tures as it roils before lim, we may
suppose him to be struck with the fact
ths of its surface are
covered with water and that the land
dis-
one point of view he would see a hemi-
sphere almost exclusively oceanic,
while nearly the whole of the dry land
Le opposite hemisphere,
He might observe that the great oce-
anic area of the Pacific and Antarctic
ocean 18 dotted with islands-—like a
above
depth
with
notice that a
its surface—as
were small in comparason
area. He might also
mass or belt of land
pole and that the northern ring sends
if its general
ting respectively in South America,
South Africa and Australia, toward
which feebler and insular processes are
given off by the Antarctic continental
observed, gives a rudely thres ribbed
He
girdle is cut across, so that the Atlantic
opens by a wide space into the Arctic
Sea, while the Pacific is contracted
the Antarctic Ocean, The Atlantic 1s
islands than the Pacific, which has the
higher ridges near its shores, constitu-
ting; what some visitor to the Pa-
cific coast of America have not
inaptly called the “back of the
world,”’ while the wider slopes face the
narrower ocean, into which for this
reason the greater part of the drainage
of the land is poured. The Pacific and
Atlantie, though both depressions or
flattenings of the earth, are, as we
shall find, different in , character
and condition; and the Atlantic, though
the smaller, is the older and from the
geological point of view, in some re-
spects, the more important of the two,
If our imaginary observer had the
means of knowing anything of the rocks
formations of the continents, he would
notice that those bounding the North
Atlantic are In general of great age,
some belonging to the Laurentian sys-
tem. On the other hand, he would see
that many of the mountain ranges
along the Pacific are comparatively
new and that modern
ov
FASHION NOTES.
——
~Quaintly-shaped sieeves with trans.
parent puffs at the elbows, or with the
top gathered and full below the elbow
to meet a stiff cuff of velvet, are
among the picturesque features of new
dresses, and there are girdles, odalisque
sashes, old designs in brocades, new
ribbon stripes in gros grain, plush and
fur pompons, and a variety of small
details that give an air of novelty to
familiar fabrics, and that may easily be
added to last year’s dresses,
~The promment feature of Lhe
stocking business is the early and brisk
demand for the new goods, The price
of wool has risen, and the same may
be said of cotton hosiery of good quali-
ty. There will be an increased call for
wool hose of good quality, but the
placed by cotton. The unusual
eign manufacturers to keep up with
orders, and there will covsequently be
many late deliveries of goods,
proved very popular abroad. One
ported gown, made
plu bh and satin in pale lilac. Above
Another, in dark Irincess
velvet, with jacket
coat of golden-brown satin worked
~ Ribbons will be used
with
Wide black vel-
ranged in
spikes on each
points
point.
formed
with a shower of loops and ends of
velvet ribbon, the ends finished with
handsomely beaded tassels,
— Among novelties in shoes we have
noted the following: American shoe of
bars in front and a strap over the in-
step, with flat bow and buckle, Walk-
patent leather, laced ou the instep.
House-shoe of glazed kid, with all the
front part embroidered in sik and
blads, and a flat bow on the insten.
Walking-boot of unglazed black kid,
faced with patent leather, fastened,
not at the side, but “in the middle of
very small
{ fronts vith
tons,
~The hair is to be worn lower by
young women. The back hair will be
laid in full braided coils about the
middle of the head, leaving the top
ina Russian bang, a slight fringe of
hair over the forehead, long In front
Ma-
trons will wear their front hair rolled
up inthe centre and cut at the side
with a high twist at the back, the style
of colffure now adopted by Mrs. Cleve-
land, Children’s balr 3 no
worn 1 a full bang, but left in a slight
fringe over the forehead. Prudent
they are 7 or 8 years of age and leave
it short until they are about 13.
—A recent elaborate display of tailor-
made gowns proved that the demand
America, as abroad, remains
abated, The newer models are far less
tation visible upon all styles except
Uses,
some cloths first employed, and in their
diagonals, camel’s-hair serges,
with threads of silk and arrasene in-
and bourelles, armures,
and canvas goods, pale-
toped etamines, Lincolnshire, Belgra-
via, Scotch tweed metrons and other
pointed corsage for.pome wear is, as a
rule, doubM-breastéd, with very high
standing collar and snug coatl-sleeve,
The outside coat is trimmed, elegant,
lady-like, and the perfection of fit and
finish,
Several brides’ dresses have re-
cently been made in Paris for export to
America. The materials used were
either ivory-white satin or corded silk
with a satin lustre. Velvet and bro-
cade are now considered too heavy for
an entire dress, although sometimes
used in combination with the simpler
material. Lace is the trimming par
excellence on a bridal dress, and es
pecially ancestral lace; 1t is now ar-
The bodice is frequently made
with a waistcoat of crossed folds,
which may be gauze or point d’esprit
net or silk mull, the high-standing col-
lar matching the folds. The long, full
train hangs straight from the bouffant
tournure; the panel is either of two or
three lace flounces, or of pearl galon,
or of clusters of pearl flower ornaments,
the skirt is edged with a pinked-out
ruche of siihies 4 silk or satin. A fige
spray of na orange flowers is now
a the hair, and the lace or tulle
Vol pen back from the face is fast-
ened w diamond ornaments; real
blossoms are also worn on the bodice,
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HORSE NOTZS.
A ———————
~—M, E. McHenry, who brought out
Bonnie MeGregor, has removed from
Genesee to Freeport, I1L
—E. A. Swigert, of Muirs, Ky., has
purchased from D. Swigert, same place,
the bay weanling filly Bermuda, by
Burnham, dam Butterfly, by Baywood,
~Tanner, an Ilion, N., Y., driver,
fell In a fit while driving a race at
Island Park, Albany, and dropping back
from his sulky was dragged aloug for
some distance. Ile was seriously hurt.
Jewett, the pacer, is still in
“Knapsack’ McCarthy's string. There
seems Lo be but little foundation to the
report of the sale of Jewett to a wealthy
j
German who intends campaigning the
| horse in Germany.
~At the recent Vicksburg, (Miss,)
meeting a mule race was one of the at-
| tractions, the contestanis being Ten
{ Broeck, Molile McCarthy, Miss Wood-
| ford, Freeland, Cleveland and Blaine,
{ Cleveland was a big favorite with the
crowd, but Ten Broeck won.
--The Shakers, Shakertown, Mercer
county, Ky., have sold to A G. Me-
{| Campbell, 700 acres of land in Mercer
county, adjoining the farm of Messrs,
{Chinn & Morgan, for $45 000 cash,
| being $65 per acre. It will he used as
3 stock farm for breeding thorough-
i breds,
~Trident, Brother of Navigator, the
| noted Australian race-horse, won the
| Derby at the Sydney meeting, winning
{1b in 2.35 with 122 pounds up. Trident
is a son of Robinson Crusoe, he by
Angler, he by Fisherman, and has tol-
lowed close in the footprints of his
brother, Navigator, who won this stake
in 1882, Trident 18 described as a
| taller colt and a chestnut (Navigator
being black), and stands 15.24, although
inot so compact and well ribbed as
| Navigator, but has fine shoulders and
| big quarters. In his work, his tra:ner,
| Mr. Fennelly, kept his forefeet pro-
tected with bar skoes,
~The opening exhibition of speed on
i the new track of the Tacony Driving
| Park Association, located on the tract
of land known as the Toy Farm,
Tacony, adjoining the House of Core
i rection property on the south, and
extending from the State Road to the
Delaware Iuver, will not take place
until spring. The Board of Directors
| has deemed this postponement wise,
for the reason that it is now late in the
iseason, and fast tune could not be
made. The track is in good condition,
| considering {18 newness, and is being
used by horsemen in the vicinity for
pleasure driving, When thoroughly
equipped this park is intended to stand
second to none. The officers of the
association are as follows: President,
William Dusston; Vice President,
Charles McFadden; Secretary, Omar
J. Kinsley; Treasurer, James Garland.
- Asteroid, the once renowned race-
horse, died at the Woodburn Farm,
Ky., November 1, aged 25 years,
| having been foaled in 1861 by Lexing-
| ton, dam Nebula, by Glencoe. Asler-
old was never beaten. He did not
start al 2, but at 3, at St. Louis, he
won a sweepstakes, mile heats, in 1.474,
{ 1,46], beating Tipperary and others,
{ At Lexington he won a sweepstakes,
| mile heats, beating Loadstone and
Grant, In 1.457%, 1.47%, and also a
sweepstakes, two-mile heats, beating
Easter, in 4.00, 406§. At Louisniile
he won a sweepstakes, mile heals,
{ beating George Woods and Grant, in
| 1,483, 1.504: also walked over on a
| sweepstakes of two-mile heats, Asa
| 4-year-old, at St, Louis, he won a
| sweepstakes, mile heats, three in five.
| Scotland winning the first heat; time—
1.503, 1.48}, 10504, 1.493. At Louis-
| ville he won at two-mile heats, beating
| Loadstone in 3.36}, 3.36 {the first mile
of the second Leat in 1.44; at the same
| meeting won a purse of $5800, three-
{ mile heats, distancing l.oadstone and
{ Dr. Lindsay in the first heat, in 5.494.
| AtCincinnat: he beat RedjOak, in 3.40,
| 3.104, distancing Red Oak in the second
| heat, and then distanced Leatherlungs
| at four miles in the mud in 3.20, and at
| Louisville walked over for the two-
mile heais. The following year (1866)
as a b-year-old he walked over for the
Woodlawn Vase, no one having the
temerity to start against him. His
winnings reached $12,800. In the
| summer of 1565 there began a great
deal of bantering over the merits
of Asteroid and Kentucky, who was
winning quite as often in the East as
the former had in the West. In July
of that year Mr. John Hunter, one of
the owners of Kentucky, spurred by
the boasts of the Asteroid people, issued
to Asteroid an offer to start Kentucky
against any horse at two or three-mile
heats, for from $10,000 to $25 .000
a side, at Saratoga. Mr. Alexander
had nommated Asteroid for the Cup at
Saratoga, but changed his mind and
refused to come East, whereupon East-
ern men began to claim that he was
afraid to meet Kentucky. The cone
troversy became eral. Finally, on
July 27, Mr. Gl broke his
silence by a letter to Mr. Hunter ex-
planing his silence, and offering two
matches of three and four-mile heats,
to be run at Cincinnati and Louisville,
$10,000 a side each. It was merely re.
plying to Mr. Hunter"s with
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