Ruts Birthday. My little girl is eight to<dny— That 1x, she’s just twice four; Or four 1imes two perhaps you'll say, And maybe that 's a better way To make my love seen more, For when my pretty Ruth was two — When she was just half four— It sevmed as if the love I knew Had grown--or, as she'd say, ‘had grow’ = Till it could grow no more, She was a little midget then, W hen she was only two, And used so say “Dear Lord, amen: Bless Papa, Mamma, 'n’ me again;'’ 'T was all the prayer sho know. And now she's four times twol dear ae, Aud winites a big round band; And when they're passed a oup of tea She makes her dolls exclaim * Merci" Which French dolls understand. When eight? or two? I scarcely know W hich birthday I would choose. At eight 1'd bave, keeping her so, Four times as much to love~but oh! Four times as much to lose At what age did she seem most dear” Ah. weil, to tell the truth, A different blossom bloomed each year; They ail seemed sweet; but this one here, You know, is veally Ruth. I ANTS HAVING HIS FORTUNE TOLD. ever knew, Vandergrift,”’ was the part- ing observation of a gentleman who was leaving his friend at the street corner, one soft May morning. “1 don't know how you make that out,” ing away a half-smoked cigar. Horace Vandergrift tired of every- thing before it was half done. “Well,” said his friend, briskly, i i | there all day long, uttering her roono- tonous appeal. She was tired, and she hated it. Pletro was not kind to ber, and she was very lonely. “Ah!” she sighed, in her inmost heart, *I am glad Beppo was never found! 1 felt very wretched when I lost him that day in the street, and thought I should never see him again; but perhaps some kind lady took him i, or the dear God Himself! Pietro would have beaten him—it is bet- ter so." They went home early, for it proved a dull day, and the bird-tamer was not pleased with the result, He was cross, and Marietta trembled when he spoke, “Where did you put that gentleman’s address?’ he asked, suddenly, his rough voice 1ipaking even the soft Italian syllables sound harsh. Muari- etta felt in the bosom of her dress— the card was gone! “I bave lost itl’ she explained, in “Oh, Pietro, 1 did not mean to. Pletro, oh, dear Pietro, please don’t beat mel?’ He answered her with an oath, and, seizing her rudely by the arm, put his the child who wished to rob him of the ing. “Poor Marietta! tearful. sensibility and when morning dawned, it was a comfort to find him snoring stupidly. She stole away without her as he now you want the moon, sake, find something to do. If you somebody to spend your mouey Oh. Why the deuce don’t you get married?” “AL. said Vandergrift, with a dis- dainful shrug, *‘now that you have reactied that subject, 1 may as well be going.” With a his friend ponchalant air, he nodded to and walked away, saying to himself: “They all want lo slip that noose about my neck. I wonder why they can’t let a fellow alone?" tle was a handsome man-—tall, shape- v. and possessing that alr of elegance ich is a rarer and even more enviable zift than mere physical beauty. “Fortune, said = voice at his elbow, Vandergrift turned, and saw a little girl of twelve, budding into the early womanhood of Southern countries signowe?”’ aweet There could hardly have been a more fruitless quest than hunting for a g tleman’s visiting-card in the streets of Marietta could not find She wet Vandergrift on the previous morn- ing till the day wore on and night ap- proached. She had not had ful to eat, and she began lo Cry softly to herself, when it suddenly occurred to her that she might earn a few pennies could sing. Presentiy, a sweet tremulous voice pleading expression, and the glossy v ito his pocket. “1? No.” she replied, with a stuile which showed a row of beautiful white teeth. *‘It is the birds, signore.”’ Then Vandergrift perceived, just outside the eurbstone, a churlish-look- in one haud, standing beside a little canvas table that supported a bird cage. On the top ef this cage was arranged a long perch, on which were crowded a number of chubby paroquets, pluming their feathers in the bright sunshine, Below was a long box or tray filled with differently folded to a small size, and a little lad- der reached from the perch down to the tray. “Five cents, signore,”’ the girl con- tinued, **and the birds will tell your tune.” Vandergrift paid the money. The sullen Italian with the ratian gave a peculiar cluck, and one of the par quets hopped off the perch on to the stick. He lifted it down, and the little crea- ture walked demurely along the tray and pulled out a slip of green paper with its bill. “That is it.*’ smd the girl, nodding pleasantly, while the man let the paro- quet climb up the ladder to its perch again. ‘‘Please read, signore. de Vandergrift opened the paper, and, to his astonishment, read: SPLANET oF THE FORTUNE OF A DiSCONTENTED BACHELOR:—Be not impatient or dissatisfied because your e for- joysall lie in the future. Be contented and you will find more pleasure in life than you hope for. But you must marry. Your happiness depends on it, though you need not concern yourself were born, Your star isa lucky one; riches and honor will follow you to the grave, But you have a bad temper, and ought to control it, overtake you, fear not; you will live till you are eighty two years of age.” «I hope it Is pieasant, signore,”’ the rl said, softly, in his ear. ai cally. *I—I believed— But pshaw! Who trained those birds—your father?’ He nodded toward the sulky old man, ly assumed a look of disdain, “He is not my father,’’ she said, quickly, with a fine scorn which did not escape Vandergnft’s ears, “It was he who trained them, though.” “They are very amusing,” he sald, watching the paroquets, that screamed frantically if he attempted to touch them, ‘How much they know! Could you show them to a little friend of mine? He lives up—well, never mind where he lives. Could you come to my house, Lo-mMOITOW, and bring the birds? My little friend will be there.” The girl turned in an uncertain way to the bird-tamer, who answered her curtly in Itahan, He says it will be a dollar, signore,” she sald, doubtfully, “Very well,” Vandergrift replid. “You may come, There is my ad dress,” he continued, handing her a card. “Don't disappoint me." He lingered a moment to watch the birds, then nodded to the little girl, and was gone, Marietta looked after bim wistfully till a smart slap on the shoulder made her start back. “You are losing customers,’ the bird-trainer growled, ‘*Attend to your business,’ it was dreary work for her, standing Marieita i 1 M le Italian song. of the tried the effect of a little ji was a lullaby she used to sing to Beppo when before their dear jeft them in Mian. Pietro bad brou over to America, promising Lo care for them like Lis own children and to think how he had treated them?" Marietta with one slender hand exten No pennies had been dropped in it yeti; but was a parting in the crowd, and a gen- tleman, with a hanasome boy of six or seven, dressed in black velvet, paused near her, “There!” cried th “Uncle Horace, there “Hallo!” exclaimed looking at Manetta “Arefi’t you the little here yesterday with the birds? Why didn’t you come this morning? Raf- faello was very much disappointed.” streel, as if alone ght sang on, 1 ! fim e boy, excitedly, "$43 Vandergnft, in surprise, girl who was and we couldn’, he beat me, and +] lost your card and Pietro was 80 angry- —~ginidl She paused suddenly, her eyes fixed upon the child whom Mr. Vandergrift held by the hand. “Beppo cried, throwing ber arms about the boy. ‘‘Beppo, don’t you know your Marietta?" “Yes, yes!” the little fellow answer. ed. **1 knew you you sang sPorme Pure.’ Uncle Horace, It 1s my sister.” wy hi, Beppo,’ she wl wien * she continued, hug- ging hima ecstatically. “I hunted for you everywhere. Wis did you run away from ine, that day of the parade?” Vandergrift stood by amazed. What would his sister say? She had adopted the little Italisn vagrant he bad found crying in the streels, a Year ago. What would she say to a sister of the foundiing? He did not know; but he questioned the children, and made up or that night at least beneath Mis, Alex- ander’s roof, widow of middle age, yet tender and maternal by real instinct, She took Marietta in without demur. “It would them, » Horace,” she said, ed up, and so terrified by the threaten- the children that he rau away, nc one knew whee, *{ thought that would be the end,” Vandergrift, with Well, I am willing. off for China, this surnmer, you know, Y ou can open an orphan brother—-a happy, luxurious home, where the name of Horace Vandergrift wanderer in foreign lands. Perhaps he might have ended his days in the Far East, if a sad calamity had not turned his face homeward: a and he learned that his sister—Mrs. Al- exander—was very ill He hurried home; but she had been buried already two weeks, and he met only a tall, beautiful girl, who greeted him half doubtfully as “Uncle Horace,” and a fine strikingly handsome boy, whom everybody kuew as *‘Raffaello Alexander.’’ It was natural that Vandergrift should at once domesticate himself in his sister's house, After, all it was leasant to have a home-—especially one ike this, where everything moved so easily, Vandergrift wondered how it was that matters wero so well man- ed. ix months slipped by unheeded when one day Marietta came to him, and, after a little hesitation, said: wf don't think 1 ought to stay here any longer, Uncle Horace," “Not stay here, child?” “Everybody says it isn’t proper, You know, I am not your own niece, and—1 can’t explain-—you must under. stand" She paused, Horace Vandergrift ———E was silent; and he took her slim little hand and marked how it trembled, “Marietta! he said; half dreamily, “if you were only in love with me now, we contld end our little story like a ro- mance,’ “Ife looked up and saw a sudden flush of color in her face, “Do you think, dear,” he added, softly, *‘that, if you tried to love me, you could ever be happy as my wife?” She moved quickly toward him, with her hands extended, “I could be happy now,” she answer- ed very softly. *‘I bave always loved you, from that day when you had your fortune told by ugly Piletro’s trained birds, I prayed then that your life and mine might never be separated,” Vandergrift took her in his arms and kissed her, “And you,” he sald, *I leve you with my whole seul. From this mo- ment, 1 am more than ever & discon- tented bachelor. I shall never be satis- fied until you are my wife.” But that came soon afterward, and Horace Vandergrift gratefullyacknowl- edges her love and compani¢nship as the chief of all fortune’s favors, sm——— ——————————— How We Think. How little we think of others, and how much we think of oupselves, in making our estimates of the fitness of | any agency of good to its work of good. | We hear a preacher, and bfcause his | subject, or his style, or hii manner, does not please us, we decide that he is | a poor preacher. Yet, just lecause we are not like all others, or ill others, fortunately, or unfortunately for them, sermon which did suit us wold not, in the very nature of things ould not, suit other people generally.) So it Is with the books we enjoy with the articles we comwmetd the ways which attract or pel usin those whom we meet, just what it 1s, is proof tlat a great many other persons think jist the op- posite, tasteful to us, that, in order jo its help- ing the great majority of tlpse whom we know, a thing must be to us; for our tastes are yey different from the tastes of others. PI course, we think our standard of (§te the correct one; but, possibly, ahier people have the same view of their tastes] sO we can find reason for thai (rod that pot everything we segor Lear is 4 foe i §¢ kin according LO our Hiking, is v ey a An Expert's Opinio. A prison official relates thafollowing story: convict, whom 1 was giving a wourdor two of friendly counsel, I asked hin why he could not turn over a new leff and be- come an honest man. ‘I buld not, sir,’ he replied; ‘I must pick pockets, { would take your waich tomorrow if Il n you in the Strand, Not,’ added. ‘but what I'd give § back to you, for you've been very khd to me. Would you like to know howio prevent your watch being stolen?'? Con tinued. ‘Just let me have it{or a min- ute.’ Curious to learn a usdul hint, i was about to draw my watcli from my when I found it was lready in this expert's hand, without ny exper- jencing the slightest touch. “fie then explained to me that the most approved method of dtaching a watch from its owner was 8 hold the ring to which the chain wd altach firmly between the finger am thumb, el he Lie 1 ob * pocket, steel pivol connecting walchand ring, leaving the watch free in hs thiel’s | hand and the ring on the chin. “A dead loss to us,” he added, with cool effrontery, ‘of six shillings.” He then showed me that if the ring ind watch were connected by a swiveljoint, the difficulty of watch stealing wuld be in- creased so much as to make it scarcely worth the risk ’ -————— Bad Tast. w— Good and Don’t put your initials or Four name over everything you posses, so that people who pick up a fork a look at a pillow sham will read “Jan Brown, my property.” It's all righ to mark things of use in some such i way, but | pot things of beauty, and | jects, not the front. The oman who | wears her initials In diagbnds on a brooch is vulgar, | less thing, for nobody is ging to run away with his dishes, much at the table, and complex. Don’t maki your nap- kin rings too emphatic amd obtrusive | Put flowers on the table, bu place them you conceal half their beauly—namely, their stems, Don’t entirel} cover your wall with pictures, and win you have a picture don’t let the shopkeeper kill it with a big gold frame. Try bronze or something that will plate to the picture on the wall, and not make it stand out like a hig shiny pot of color and gilt ginger-bread. — Bonnets are larger thin they have been for some time, and the actual shape of the bonnet 18 eXremely flat, though the trimming gives the appear- ance of height, Very fdl fronts are worn, the velvet or mater being ruf- fled in the brim, rather arranged 10 stiff folds, in a design vith a plain edge. A bow is usually placed under the brim in front. — THE EVIL EYE. Personal Experionce With a Jot- tatura. When in Sorrento I chanced to meet a man considered to be one of the most remarkable jettatura or ‘‘evil-eyed” in Italy, We had heard of him through mutual friends as our future neighbor, his parents having taken for the sum- mer the villa next to ours situated in the gardens or the Hotel Vittoria. Our Neapolitan friends had given us numerous accounts of this wonderful power, in which they believe most firme ly, and while their stories amused us, we ridiculed their superstition, and for one I felt a great curiosity to meet this wondertul individual who could bring the direst misfortune upon one by the merest glance, He arrived in Sorrento the very evening of the ball at the Prin- cess B.'s and her sons soon brought him up to be presented, 1 was more than ever impressed with the absurdity of the superstiticn on seeing this handsome, elegant, courte- ous stranger, and decided at once to ac- cept him as a friend, if for nothing else but to prove to his countrymen that there were some people whom they coli- sidered intelligent and well educated far above their superstition, We saw a great deal of him that evening, and were all greatly pleased with him, and what struck me as particularly strange was that every one treated him with marked consideration and courtesy. The evening was charming, and with a little excitement added by one of the ladies slightly spralning her tition of the **Tarantella.’” Not very ing home, The next day we were visited by the friends who had introduced them 1 commenced rallying on hima most respectfully. “That is just it,’ one ly, so that they may do them no harm,” “And now, madam,” cannot deny the power of the jellatura “ And what happened last night?’ 1 inquired. “Why, didn’t you see the petite tebello was dancing beautifully when D2. looked at her and she tell and sprain. ed ber ankle? Then there was tbe Prince B.. who came from Naples to attend his wife's ball; been better in his life; Dr. . Mon- he speaks to him looking well, and in hour afterward the poor man denly ill, and can hardly reach bis bed, where he will probably bave lo remain, the physician says, for several weeks,’ “Well, in all that,” I reply, *I see nothing strange Doth things have happened as well without th presence of the Marquis. Do you see that it is & simple coincidence, and 80 “ not for such things to happen poor friend is near that them? Just as it happens one for is seriously ill, every sign seems to point to death. 1f we go out we meet a funeral, pass streels in which can read undertakes’ sign-boards. If we take up a bDooK of paper, ing concerning death sure to meet the eye. At another time it would all pass unnot but the mind, betpe full of one subject, fear. it has room for nothing else.” But all my arguments useless; their alw “Well, whatever pecpie something in it, and none ever go out withoul some us to keep off the evil eye.” i have never met more intelligent, more highly cultivated men than the upper-class Italians, Yet it this upper class, tl pobility, when your youl when some notice we Cale Of we £1 somes $14 inangl ui 08S of one were Answers were avs the same. there iS us would ot MAY, * in thud esir #5) thing about iw thal one The middie classes, the trades people, are almost exempt from it; but the peas- They bave the greatest number of ornaments as charms against ‘his wonderfal power, and 1 do not believe there was one who little coral or shell ornament in the form of a hand with the thunband two middle fingers turned under, leaving the index and little fingers to stick out This same motion is also made with the band when one meets the person Another powerful charm against it is a little 1t is wonderful to see such aun en lightened nation persisting in such an absurd belief, but the most curious thing about the superstition is its anti- quity. It goes buck to the most remote antiquity, legends and ornaments prov- ing its existence in Italy, Greece and India. ms — Implantation of Teeth. De. Younger's plan of implanting natural teeth in place of those lost has proven less successful than was hoped, ag the roots gradually undergu absorp- tion, causing the teeth to loosen and fall out after a year or two. iss AMA <A: ~The polonnise of other days lives under the new title of the Empire red. ingote, and it will be in high favor d this and the coming season. To describe it generally, it is a half fitting long coat, snug aod back and open over a plastron and lu- ner skirt of like or contrasting ma. terial, Sometimes thers is a little fullness left in the corsage portion, which 1s shirred at the throas and again very narrowly at the belt. The sleeves are quite full, and a band of Bulgarian embroidery wrought in rich colored silks is around the arm and forms a deep cuff at the wrists, We often do more good by manifest ing Agwpnuty than by all the labor we ht bestow, ¥ —————————————————_r > ——————————— FASHION NOTES, —For the evening, little wreaths of flowers are worn en chaperon; that is to say, very small, aud placed on one side. Some women wear a thick coron- net, called jurdinere, made of differ- ent flowers, and placed round the chignon at the back, rather low down, 80 88 to form a sort of aurecle round the face, but much at the back. --The half long sleeves of dressy evening corsages admit of many fancy arrangements. When of black or white lace they are trimmed with nb- bon epaulettes, bands of velvet cross tng the sleeves diagonally, and also arrangements to produce the effect of lace puffings or embroidered tabs, with long strings of beads like a heavy fringe depending from them in East- ern fashion, HORSE NOTES, -W, E, Owens, a Canadian trainer, died at Toronto recently. —~8t. Albans’ record (2.204) is now used on the road at New York. —~Mosley, record 2 21}, had her frst and only foal when 25 years old, ~Twelva Electioneer performers en- endl the 2.30 list during the season of 1888, —Topsy, 2.21%, by Walkill Chief, is in foal to Borrento, and has been turned out. —W. T. Andrews will have charge of the Village Farm stable of trotters next season. —The celebrated Australian stallion, St. Albans, died on September 14, at John Crozier’s breeding establishment. ~Itussela, Robert Bonner's 8-year- —A good wearing glove, which fits and looks well, is one of the great | wants of the day, and happily the prices at which dependable gloves are s0id is considerably reduced, Suedes have been brought out, not only in all | the tan tones, but in a light bultercup, which goes well with the fashionable | colors in evening dress; l6-buttoned | white Suedes are in demand, and 20- buttoned ones are sold, ~Stockings are so much seen with shoes that they are greatly conshlered, They are to be had with double heels (which prevent both shoes and boots cutting), in spun silk, and a new make has spuu | silk outside and Balbriggan in. It isnot | every woman who can afford open work | silk stockings to match every dress; | but thread ones are fine, and can be procured of any color, that when—as they often are—embroldered in silk, | —The new marabout fans and thin | tern and artistically colored, are likely season advances, There is a new shape | —3 trae oval, bordered with colored lace, lace has been delicately painted, in price—even the ostrich plumes, which shaded, the chartreuse is one of the —On many of the French bndices the silk ilining is fitted wilh two very deep darts, while the bodice material is | and is seamless. without a wripkls, It nis, and to however, prevent boue is run diagonally across the lizing just above the waist line, from the second dart. 2and carried to the under | arm again, where it is secured by al buttonbols stiteh. Only the two ends | are fastened, the casing not sewed to the lining. ~The dinner gowns are made in varied fashion, with low jackets and | with V shapsd bodices, and with the classic drapery cut in one | with the skirt, falling from the left A pretty style 18 a long flowing white dress, the front arranged with stripes, the bodice and skirt ap- parently eat in one, staring from the jeft shoulder, and crossing the bust and waist. Directolre bodices, cul | jow, with desp revers, look well for especially with the new sleeves, a fluted lace reaching to the elbow, Jong tasseled ends of the ma terial falling on the front of the skirt. ~The style of dressing halr being | has lately been worn. The way curled or falling fringe 1s two ends escaping In front the Others plait the back hair in two wide plaits, raised up with a In fact, the nape is NOW cOv- lower except in the case of curls being worn, —The large and picturesque round hats of velvet look very stylish in thelr appropriate piace, but the strong havoe with | i on the promenade. Tbe heavy breezes normal head covering, so that tbe | usual appearance of a fashionably at- | tired young woman, as we view her at | holding Ler head on. The stroagest elastic and the most warlike looking | hatpins thrust in here and there have i wot a chance against the violence of a por'wester when it dashes around a corner and strikes a “picture hat amidships.” — Aztists in gowning are now com- pelied to study with unusual care the lines of the human form divine. The so-called simple Directoire redingotes, for instance, and the stately Russian polonaises have no fripperies and falls of lace with which to cover a false move of the scissors, snd the long straight folds which look easy enough to drape as ous looks at the stylish models, are not so quickly adjusted and arranged as one might imagine. The 0Oiting, too, aud the emaculate tailor finish which alone make the bodice of the garment a success, de- pend altogether upon the genuine and hoisted art of the creator of these “qimple’’ gowns, ~The stately brocades, heavy with embossed devices in silver and gold; the elegant Pompadour satins, mate- lasse fabrics and superbly colored Lyons velvets which enter so largely into the composition of the magnif- cent tollets prapates for the forthcom- ing carnival gayety and high fash ion, consist in a great degree of designs jch recall the pictured scenes of the old minuet dances, with the ladles in their Pom- pudous gowns, thelr rich old laces, ustrous brocades and their patches and powdered locks, Royal patterns are yed, shimmering with metal lic threads that fairly dazzie the eyes of the holder with the splendor of their coloring and the glow and shimmer of their marvelous web and woof, ~The Twin City Jockey Club, of St. Paul, Minn, has definitely decided to hold a Twin Cities’ running meet~ ing immediately after the close of the racing season at Chicago next year. The opening will ba on July old sister to Maud B., has bad bul one foal. She was sterile last year, bat is —In a mutch race for $400 at rovi- December, Rockland Boy beat Bonner. Time, —Seaview Driving Park, at New Dorp, Staten Island, has been pur- inio —Six hundred and seventy-one stal- lions have made records of 2.30 and 509 of them having placed them to their credit during the past eight years. —A training department has been established at Highlawn Farm, Les, has been en- —Benjamin White, one of the pro- of organizing an association of —George Hankins wiil winter bis Memphis for early spring work. He ~On a bet of $500 Albert Cordes track last Saturday. He was given —W. RB. Allen has added to the gilt- edged collection at Allen Farm the bay weaning coltE'ecirois, by Elec- bay Prince, out illy Brenda, by of Miss Dru- ~Jockey Donohue says he walks from ten to twelve miles each day, and nel be com- pelled to reduce himself so suddenly In the Spring as to weaken him. He uses neither liquor nor LOLACCO DOW, —The George Wilkes gelding Wildox paced two heats against Texz., over a half-mile track, la 2.224, 2.18%. You Bet also paced a mile, with running mate, in 2.10, the last half of the mile belng finished 1.03%, and the third quarter in Jljs. —Jack Chinn, the well-known turf- man, who was recently indicted for Latonia race-track during the fall meeting, in Judge Perkins’ Court, in Covington, on November 27, pleaded guilty, saying be had committed the The $500 and costs. Judge Perkins, Who sentenced him, is one of the Direclors of the Latonia Jockey Ciub. dg. I. Case explains vow Lhe injury to Jay-Eye-See occurred, as follows “By some means or other he ran his hind leg against some sharp article, cutting the main artery of his left hind leg just below the fetlock joint. ‘this information was quickly carried to the stable, a velerinary was called and the horse taken care of in the best possible manner. However, he came weak and went to the next point to death, that is to the point where cold sweats started out all over him. If no bad after effects follow, 1 thnk itis probable that he may recover his strength so as to De able to trot some fast miles in the latter part of next sea 800. —The ten leading winning race horses in Australia in 1888 captured $142,305. The list was headed by Hon. James White's Abercom, a 3- year-old, by Chester—Cinnamon, who won five races and ran a dead beat, his total winnings amounting to $20,895. The second was the same gentisman's Volley, a 2-year-old, by Musket— Lady Vivian, who won five races worth $18,360. The turd is Danlopa 5-year- oid (who won the Melbourne cup of 1887), by Neckersgat— Ella, who woa two races, and whose winnings fout up the sum of $16,860. The fourth is the Australian Peer (winner of the Victo- rian Derby), a 3-year-old, by Darebin — Stockdove, who won four races of $16,350, The other six were as follows: Jariyon, 3 years, eight races snd $15, 335; Cardigan, 5 years, five races and $14,640; Cranbrook, 4 years, five races and $12,075; Oakleigh, 5 years, wo races and $0570; Lady Betty, 2 years, six races and a divided dead-heat and $9119, and Ruby, aged, six races and 18240. Compare the Australian Stat- istics with the winnings of American horses the past season. ln this country the largest winner was I’roctor Knott, a 2. year-old, who won six races and $69,115. Emperor of Naf, a 3.year- =i 41} 1EEigs
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