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F YOU WANT TO BE CLOTHED, Call at the ,tore 50 2 tio. 3 do. $ :37 , $ - 1 00 1 hifiertioik LEM MEI 8 00 10 00 5 00 00....0t....10 00 15 00 .900 1300 20 00 12 0) 1f 00 "4 00 20 00 '3O 00 50 00 OM IL C. McGI LL FISHER & McMURTRIE BENJ. JACOBS ME WILLIAM LEWIS, VOL. XIV. ' c titret. I HAVE NOT LIVED IN VAIN. I have not lived in vain; Were it alone for this, That 1 bare softened other6' pain, And shared In others bliss; That in return for kindly words, I've caught some looks of pleasure Shining. on me from truthful hearts— Hearts that a queen might treasure. I do not lir• in vain, When I hear the hearty blessing From lips that never Meanly feign The love they are professing ; When the hand of friendship keeps mine own In warm crtre,,i ng bond, And my name is breathed in tender tone, Almost too deeply fond. Full power• to love is mine; And this power my lot enriching, this fairy joys triumphant twine, And renders bewitching; Anil till my love can dry no tear, And win no love again, 1 will not tire of wailing here, Nor think I live in vain. c 's- , ritrt s),torp. THE CRIMINAL WITNESS. A LAWYER'S STORY In the spring of ISA I was called to Jack son, Alabama, to attend court, having been engaged to defend a young man who had been accused of robbing the mail. I arrived early in the morning, and immediately had a long conference with my client. The stolen mail bams bad been recovered, as well as the letters from which the money had been rifled. These were given to me for examination, and I then returned them to the prosecuting At torney. Having got through my private pre liminaries about noon, and as the case would not come up before the next day, I went into the Court in the afternoon to see what was going on. The first case that came up was one of theft, and the prisoner was fL young girl not more than seventeen, named Eliza beth Madworth. She was pretty, and bore that mild, innocent look which we seldom find in a culprit. She was pale and frighten ed, and the moment my eyes rested on her, I pitied leer. She had been weeping profusely, buts nd so many eyes resting upon her, sec. too much frightened to weep more. The complaint against her set forth that she had stolen one hundred dollars from a Mrs. Xaseby ; and as the ease went on I found that this Mrs. Ndseby, a wealthy widow lady living in town, was the girl's mistress. The poor girl declared her innocence in the most mild terms, but circumstances were against her. A hundred dollars in bank notes had been stolen from her mistress' room, and she was the only one who had ac cess there. At this juncture, when the mistress was on the witness stand, a young man came and caught me by the arm. lie was a fine look ing man, and big tears stood in his eyes. " They tell me you are a good lawyer," he whispered. "I am a lawyer," I answered. " Then do save her! You can certainly do it, for she is innocent." " Is she your sister?" " No sir," he said, " bu—" Here he hesitated. "Has she no counsel ?" I asked. " None that's good for anything—nobody that'll do anything for her. 0, save her, and I'll pay you all I've got. I can't give you much, but I can raise something." I reflected for a moment. I cast my eyes towards the prisoner, and she was at that moment looking at me. She caught my eye and the volume of humble entreaty that I read in her glance, resolved me in a moment. I arose and went to the girl, and asked her if she wished me to defend her. She said yes. Then I informed the Court that I was ready to enter into the case, and I was ad mitted at once. The loud murmur of satis faction that ran quickly through the room, told me where the sympathy of the people was. I asked a moment's cessation, that I might speak with my client. I went and sat down by her side, and asked her to state candidly the whole case. She told me she had lived with Mrs. Naseby nearly two years, and had never had any trouble before.— About two weeks ago, she said her mistress had lost a hundred dollars. " She missed it from the drawer," the girl said, " and she asked me about it, but I knew nothing about it. The next thing I knew, Nancy Luther told Mrs. Naseby that she saw me take it from the drawer—that she watch ed me through the key-hole. Then they went to my trunk and found twenty-five dol lars of the missing money there. But, sir, I never took it—somebody else put it there." I then asked her if she suspected any one. "I don't know," she said, " who could have done it but Nancy. She never liked me, because she thought I was treated better than she was. She is the cook; I was the chamber-maid." She pointed Nancy Luther out to me.— She was a stout, bold-faced g irl, somewhere about five and twenty years old, with a low forehead, small grey eyes, a pug nose, and thick lips. I caught her glance once, as it rested on the fair your'' , prisoner, and the moment I detected the look c ' of hatred which rested there, I was convinced that she was the rogue. " Nancy Luther, did you say that girl's name was?" I asked, for a new light had broken in upon me. " Yes sir." "Is there any other girl of that name about here?" " No sir." "Then rest easy. I'll try hard to save you. ,, I left the Court room and went to the prose cuting Attorney,. and asked him for the let ters I banded hue—the ones that had been stolen from the mail bag. He gave them to .. , ; ; ;I ' '.. 'IY- ' 41 ,:: : •,•• i'ic" , s - ;• , . ei. ••'..;:i •!';'.',': --- , - • • ••••••`" - 7,... • ) me, and having selected one, I returned the rest and told him I would see he had the one I kept before night. I then returned to the Court room, and the case went on. Mrs. Naseby resumed her testimony. She said she entrusted the room to the prisoner's care, and that no one had access there save herself. Then she described about missing the money, and closed by telling how she found twenty-five dollars of it in the prison er's trunk. She could swear it was the iden tical money she had lost, in two ten, and one five dollar notes. "Mrs. Naseby," said I, •‘when you first missed the money, had you any reason to be lieve that the prisoner had taken it?" " ND sir," she answered. "Had you ever before detected her in any act of dishonesty ?" " No sir." Mrs. Naseby left the stand, and Nancy Luther took her place. She came up with a bold look, and upon me she cast a defiant glance, as much as to say, trap me if you can. She gave her testimony as follows : She said that on the night when the money was stolen, she saw the prisoner going up stairs, and from the sly manner in which she went up, she suspected that all was not right. So she followed her up. "Elizabeth went into Mrs. Nasehy's room and shut the door after her. I got down and looked through the key-hole, and saw her take out the money and put it in 'her pocket. Then she stooped and picked up the lamp, and I saw that she was coming out, I hurried away." Then she went on and tolil how she had in formed her mistress of this, and how she proposed to search the girl's trunk. I called Mrs. Naseby back to the stand. " You say that no one, save yourself and the prisoner, had access to your room." I said. " Now, could Nancy Luther have en tered the room if she wished?" " Certainly, sir, I mean no one else has any right there." 1 saw thaCMrs. Naseby, though naturally a hard woman, was somewhat moved by the misery of poor Elizabeth. " Could your cook have known, by any means in your knowledge, where your mon ey was ?" "Yes sir; fur she has often came up to my room when I was there, and I have given her money with which to buy provisions of market-men, who happen along with their wagons." " One more question ; have you known the prisoner's using any money since this was stolen ?" " No, sir" I then called Nancy Luther back, and she began to tremble a little, though her look was as bold and defiant as ever. "Miss Luther," I said, "why did you not inform your mistress at once of what you had seen, without waiting for her to ask about the lost money ?" "Because 1 could not make up my mind at once to expose the poor young girl," she an swered promptly. "You say you looked through the key-hole, and saw her take the money?" "Yes, sir." "Where did she place the lamp when she did so ?" On the bureau." "In your testimony - you said she stooped down when she picked it up. what did you mean by that ?" The girl hesitated, and ftnallysaid she didn't mean anything, only that she picked up the lamp : "Very well," said I "How long have you been with Mrs.:Naseby.?" " Not quite a year, sir." " How much does she pay yon a week?" "A dollar and three-quarters." " Have you taken up any of your pay since you hare been there?" "Yes, sir." " hlow much ?" "I don't know, sir." " Why don't you know ?" " How should 1. 1 have taken it up at different times, just as 1 wanted it, and have kept no account." " Now, if you had wished to harm the prisoner, could you have raised twenty-five dollars to put in her trunk ?'' "No, sir," she replied, with virtuous indig nation. " Then you have not laid up any money since you have been here ?" "No, sir—only what Mrs. Naseby may now owe me." "Then you didn't have any twenty-five dollars when you came here ?" " No, and what's more, the money found in the girl's trunk is the very money Mrs. Nose by lost. You might have known that if you would remember what you hear." This was said very sarcastically, and was intended as a crusher upon the idea that she could have put the money in the prisoner's trunk. How ever, I was not overcome entirely. " Will you tell me if you belong to this State ?" I asked next. " I do sir." " In what town ?" She hesitated, and for a moment the bold look forsook her. But she firmly answered: "I belong to Somers, Montgomery coun- ty." I next turned to Mrs. Naseby. "Do you ever take a receipt from your ,girls when you pay them ?" "Always. " Can you send and get one of them for me ?" "She has told you the truth, sir, about my payments," said Mrs. Naseb,y. "0, I don't doubt it," I replied ; " but oc cular proof is the thing for the Court room. So if you can, I wish you would procure me the receipt." She said she wain willingly go if the Court said so. The Court did say so, and she went. Her dwelling was not fur off, and she soon returned, and handed me four re ceipts which I took and examined. They were all signed in a strange, straggling hand by the witness. AN ow, Nancy Luther," I said, turning to the witness, and speaking in. a , quick start ling tone, at the same time looking her stern- -PERSEVETE.- HUNTINGDON, PA., JUNE 30, 1858, ly in the eye, " please tell the Court and the jury, and tell me, too, where you got the sev enty-five dollars you sent in your letter to your sister in Somers ?" The witness started as though a volcano had burst at her feet. She turned pale as death ; and every limb shook violently. I waited until the people could have an oppor tunity to see her emotion, and then I repeat ed the question. "I—never—sent—any," she grasped. " You did," I thundered for I was now ex cited. " I—didn't," she faintly uttered, grasping the railing by her side for support. " May it please your honor and gentlemen of the jury," I said, as soon as I had looked the witness out of countenance, " I came here to defend a man who has been arrested for robbing the mail, and in the course of my preliminary examination, I had access to the letters which had been torn open and robbed of money. When I entered upon the case and heard the name of this witness pronounc ed, I went out and got the letter which I now hold, for I remembered to have seen one bearing the signature of Nancy Luther.— This letter was taken from the mail bag, and contained seventy-five dollars, and by looking at the post-mark, you will observe that it was mailed the very day after the money was ta ken out of Mrs. Naseby's drawer. I will read it to you if you wish. The Court nodded assent, and I read the following, which was without date, save that made by the Postmaster on the outside. 1 read it verbatim "SisTEn. Done Ascend yu beer seventy five dolers, which i want yu to kepe fur me til i cum horn. I kan't kepe it beer coz hue fraid it wil git stole. don't speke wun \curd tu a. livin sole bout this coz 1 don't want rio body tu kno i hey gut eny moray. yu wunt now wil yu. lem fust raft beer only that nude fur nothin snipe of lir. madworth is beer yit but i hope to git rid of hur now. yu no i rote tu yu bout hur. giv my for to awl inhluirin frens. this is yer sister. til death " Now, your honor," said I, as I handed him the letter, and also the receipts, " you will see that the letter is directed to Dorcas Luther, Somers, Montgomery county. And will also observe that one hand wrote that letter and signed these receipts. The jury will also observe—and now I will only add: It is plain to seo how the hundred dollars were disposed of. Seventy-five dollars were sent off for safe-keeping, while the remaining twenty-five were placed in the prisoner's trunk f-7.7,- :the purpos.e. of .covering the real criminal. - Of the tone of the other parts of the letter I leave you to judge. And now, gentlemen, I leave my client's case in your hands. The case was given to the jury imme diately following their examination of the letter. They had heard from the witness' own mouth that she had no money of her own and without leaving their seats, they returned a verdict of "I\W Guilty." will not attempt to describe the scene that followed ; but if Nancy Luther had not been immediately arrested for theft, she would have been obliged to seek protection of the officers, or the excited people would have maimed her, at least, if they had done no more. On the next morning, I received a note very handsomely written, in which I was told that " the within" was but a slight token of the gratitude due me for my efforts in behalf of a poor, defenseless maiden. It was signed "SPveral Cif and contain ed one hundred dollars. Shortly afterwards the youth who first begged me to take up his case, called upon me with all the money he could raise, but I showed him that I was al ready paid, and refused his hard earnings. Before I left town I was a guest at his wed ding—my fair client being the happy bride. The Love of Home It is only the shallow minded pretenders who make either distinguished origin a mat ter of personal merit, -or obscure origin a matter of personal reproach. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition. It did happen to me to be born in a log cabin, raised among the snow drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settle ment on the river Canada. Its remains still exist. I make it an annual visit. I carry my children to it and teach them the hard ships endured by the generations before them. I love to dwell on the tender recollections, the kindred ties, the early affections, and the narration and incidents which mingle with all I know of its primitive family abode. I weep to think that none of those who inhab ited it are among the living ; and if I fail in affectionate veneration for him who raised it, and defended it against savage violence and destruction, cherished all domestic comforts beneath its roof, and through the fire and blood of seven years' revolutionary war, shrank from no toil, no sacrifice, to save his country and to raise his children to a condition bet ter than his own, may my name and the name of my posterity be blotted from the memory of man ki n d.—Danid rebster. REMARKABLE WORKS or lIUMAN LABOR.— Nineveh was 15 miles long,S wide, and 40 miles round, with a wall 100 feet high, and thick enough for three chariots abreast.— Babylon was 50 miles within the walls, which were 76 feet thick and 100 high, with in 100 brazen gates. The temple of Diana, at Ephesus, was 420 feet to the support of the roof. It was a hundred years in build ing. The largest of the pyramids was 4SI feet high, and 653 on the sides; its base covers eleven acres. The stones are about GO feet in length, and the layers arc 208. It em ployed 330,000 men in building. The laby rinth in Egypt presents ruins 27 miles round, and 100 gates. Carthage was 29 miles round, Athens was 25 miles round, and contained 320,000 citizens and 400 slaves. The "temple of Delphus was so rich in donations that it was plundered. of $50;000,000, and Nero car ried away from it 200 statues. The walls of Rome were 13 miles round. , j.. , ,: ‘ :,,,, r; ..;-:: ::!.., ...p.: -e...,:4,...: I ......-.: „ - \ .., ~:,:-. . :. ~ : 4 ?r ',....:,'... -.),' :14 7.. •.,.:., - ~, 1. ' ....',:, , Oi. .\,..* - -.:t: w NANCY Lt rnErt Editor and Proprietor. The Death of the Tigress The time for action, however, was nearer at hand than any one of the party imagined which was to test our nerves ; and bring us into somewhat unpleasant proximity with game, which, with the exception of Lieu tenant F., none of us had seen killed, much less encountered on foot. Immediately be neath where we stood in the lower fort com menced one of those ravines or deep fissures with which the mountain side was furrowed. Boulders of rock, betwixt the openings of which sprang trees, cactus and grass, served to conceal its shadowy depths, and to afford a safe retreat for the large descriptions of game we hoped to find. At this juncture of our tale, when the cries of the beaters an nounced their approach below to the mouth of the ravine, and the hopes of the expec tants above became fainter from the little space of ground that remained unbeaten, one of the nearest beaters shouted to Lieutenant F., who had clambered a little way down the hill side, that he had seen something in the jungle for a moment like "a small cow of a yellow color," making for the mouth of the ravine, and the next instant the officer ad dressed fired a shot at some object below, which was responded to by a roar that left little doubt of the nature of the game afoot. A call for volunteers from the party above was quickly followed by the addition of Lieutenants P. and W. to the storming party, consisting now of three tall, active young men, fit fur the ugly work before them. No time was lost in moving fur the mouth of the ravine below, which, it was judged, the animal must have made for: and know ing that it had been struck by the shot fired by Lieutenant F. the beaters were ordered to form in the rear of the officers, who began their ascent up the bottom of the ravine, and through a tangled mass of brush-wood, trees and rocks, towards an abrupt cliff that ap peared to terminate it. Here an opening in the cliff formed a cave of some ten feet wide and as many deep, at the further extremity of which appeared an ominous-looking circu lar hole about three feet in diameter—a snug retreat fur the enemy we were in search of. The ground around was strewn with sand, and from the unmistakable footprints, of a cheese-plate size, surrounded by smaller ones of a similar form, the startling fact announced itself that we stood within a few feet of a wounded tigress with cubs! Nothing ani mate, however, was visible, or audible, ex cept the suppressed voices of beaters out side the den. We looked at one another in silent question as to what was next to be dune. To return to the party above empty banded, after having run our game to earth, was not to be thought of. As a reconnoimenee, P. now cautiously crawled with rifle cocked, to the mouth of the hole, and listened ; but nothing was heard from the darkness, though, from the recent footprints, it was clear it had a resident; but how to draw her out was the di fliculty. Smoking at last was determined on, and a quantity of dry grass was heaped up at the mouth of the hole and set fire to. The blaz ing pile now lighted up the rocky ante-cham ber in which the expectants sat, or rather kneeled, with their rifles cocked and present ed in the direction front whence we expected her advent. Not a sound was heard but our deep breathing and the crackling of the burning grass and sticks, the smoke from which rolled in volumes into the hole. Our nerves, strung to tension for several minutes, were on the point of relaxing, and the expi ring flames of the grass as it shot forth its last flickering gleams revealed our compressed lips and somewhat palid faces—paled, but not, T trust, from fear. A glance around the space within—six feet from the mouth of the hole—at once as sured us that our game could not escape, or rather, what more probably suggested itself at that anxious moment even to the boldest heart of the party, was, that the tigress could not possibly pass out without the loss of life to one or all of us! in other words, three armed men, with the door behind them, stood in a room with a wounded tigress! The fire had now burnt low, and no longer obscured the aperture; and seeing nothing of the ene my, hopes gave way to fears that she had in some mysterious way eluded us, when at that moment a volume of smoke gently rolled back from the aperture, and hardly gave us time to exclaim, "steady—here she comes!" ere the chest and head of a tigress slowly devel oped themselves. At first she stood within six feet of us, her eyes glaring, and her open mouth, from which the drops of blood slowly trinkled down, turned towards us; happily for us she appeared momentarily blinded by the smoke. But little time was left for re flection, in an instant more and our rifles were discharged into the white field of her chest; a roar and a spring, and the next mo ment she lay dead, touching our feet! READ AN 1.1 . 017 R A DAY.—There was a lad who at fourteen was apprenticed to'a soap boiler. One of his resolutions was to read one hour a day, or at least at that rate, and he had an old silver watch left him by his uncle, which he timed his reading by. lie staid seven years with his master, and his master said when he was twenty-one, that he knew as much as the young squire did.— Now let us see how much time he had to read in seven years, at the rate of an hour a day. It would be twenty-five hundred and fifty-five hours, which at the rate of eight reading hours a day, would be three hundred and nineteen days: equal to forty-five weeks, equal to eleven months; nearly a year's read ing. That time spent in treasuring up use ful knowledge would pile up a very large store. I am sure it is worth trying for.— Try what you ewe do. But, mark : To " know as much as the young squire did," the lad had to read fur know/edge, and not for amwentent merely. If John Smith should, while crossing Brown's vacant lot, happen to fall and tear his pantaloons, who is responsible for the ground rent thus created—he or Brown ? and could Brown compel Smith to settle the rent with a potato patch ? District of Columbia:-Why Established Hon. W. A. Goode; of Virginia, in a ..re cent speech in the Federal House of Ilepre , sentatires, thus recites the history of the es tablishment of the seat of Government at Washington. It will be new, perluips, to some of our readers: At the close of the war of the Revolution; when our arms were triumphant, when the power of Britain was overthrown; and victory had perched upon our banners, the army which achieved this glorious triumph was left in a state of destitution. The time had come when that army was to be disbanded, and the veteran citizen-soldier return to his long neglected home. But he was without pay—without a cent of money in his pocket far away from his home ; all tattered and torn—all wearied and worn—he was to be disbanded and turned loose upon the world, without even a settlement of accounts. lie knew not what allowance would be made for him by the country whose enemies he had conquered, and whose liberty he bad achiev ed. Great and extensive discontent prevail ed, and there was danger of a general muti= ny. Never was the address of Gen. Wash ington put to a severer trial : but he firmly essayed the task, and his efforts were crown ed with success. The spirit of patriotism was diffused through the army as an emana tion of his soul. Order was restored, the army dispersed, the liberties of America es tablished upon a lasting foundation. At Lancaster, Pennsylvania, there was a canton of raw recruits who refused to be ap peased, and who refused to submit to be dis banded, by the terms which were rendered indispensable by the actual poverty of Uov: eminent. And venting their rage, and vow:, ing vengeance, they took up the line of march for Philadelphia, where the Conti nental Congress was in session. Their ap proach was known in Philadelphia. Con geess called on• the corporate authorities td provide the means of resistance and protec tion. The corporate authorities referred the question to the State authorities, and, pend ing the delay which intervened, the muti neers had reached the city. The house in which the sessions were held was surrounded by the enraged soldiery. The passways were' blockaded with fixed bayonets, and a del: mind was made on the Council, who assem bled in the same house, that the accounts should be settled in twenty minutes : and this message was accompanied with the threat that, unless their demands were sat: islied, the soldiers would be turned loose, with arms in their hands, free from all the restraints of law. NO, 2. By some means, of which I am not dis; tinetly informed, the members effected their escape and before they dispersed in confu sion, they agreed to re-assemble at Princeton, and for some time their future sessions were held there. After this mortifying outrage and flagrant insult, Congress resolved that it was necessary to establish the seat of Gov ernment in a locality and under eireum: stances where they might exert a power and authority adequate to their own protection; and this determination seems very generally to have settled down in the public mind.— At an early stage of the proceedings of the' Federal Convention which framed the Con: stitutiou of the United States, a resolution' was adopted instructing, the Committee to in sert a clause insuring an adequate authority in the Federal Government for all the pur pose of self-protection, which resulted in' tee euu se iw s foutia /IL rile establishing an exclusive jurisdiction within' this district. Where Mosquitos Come From These pests of summer proceed from the' animalcules, commonly termed the "wiggle tail." If a bowl of water is placed in the summer's sun for a few days, a number of "wiggle tails" will be visible, and they will' continue in size till they reach three-six teenths of an inch in length, remaining longer' at the surface as they approach maturity, as' if seeming to live on influences derived from' the two elements of air and water finally they will assume a chrysalis form, and by an' increased specific gravity sink to the bottom' of the bowl. A few hours only elapse when' a short black furze or hair will grow out on' every side of each, till it assumes the shape' of a caterpillar. Its specific gravity hieing thus counteracted, it will readily float to the surface, and be wafted to the edge of the bowl by the slightest breath of air. In a short time a fly will be hatched and escape, leaving its tiny house upon the surface of the' water. Any one who has had a cistern in the yard has doubtless observed the same effect, every summer, although he may be ignorant of the beautiful and simple process of development. If a pitcher of cistern or other water con taining these animalcules is placed in a close• room over night, from which all mosquitos have been previously excluded, enough mos quitos will breed from it during the night to give any satisfactory amount of trouble. In• fact, standing by a shallow, half stagnant pool on a midsummer's day, the full devel opment of any number of "wiggle tails" to the mosquito state can be witnessed, and tho origin of these disturbers of night's slumbers. thus fully ascertained. SLI PPE RY NEGRO.—The abolitionists should' not take it for granted that every black skin covers a saint. The desperate black convict' Dade, who escaped lately from the Michigan State prison, claimed to be a fugitive slave, and at Sandusky, Ohio, the abolitionists re leased. him by habeas corpus, after he had been caught and lodged in jail. At Belle fontaine he was again arrested, and the alio- - litionists were just ready to secure him and mob the officer, when the latter fortunately obtained proof of the truth of his assertion, that Dade was an escaped convict. The Ne gro was taken back to his old quarters. He states that he preached a sermon the next Sunday after his escape, to a large audience,- and took up a collection, the audience con tributing a sufficient sum to enable him to buy a horse, with which to proceed as a fu gitive slave. TIIE LUST RICILES.—The grudge with which most men part with a little pittance for the noblest purposes, is astonishing and. humiliating. Mammon, mammon, is the god of the professing world among us. The love of distinction flows in the channels of wealth, and thus creates an aristocracy the most fee ble and enfeebling, the most corrupt and corrupting, the most slavish and enslaving of all aristocracies—the aristocracy of dol lars. _Hence the passion for lucre is the pas sion of the United States. Men measure their respectability, not by their deeds of goodness, but by the sums of which they are masters.—Mason. •"I declare, mother," said a petted lit tle girl in a pettish litte way, "'tis to bad, motile; ; you always send rue to bed when I am not sleepy, and you always make me get up when I am sleepy."
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