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PARODY ON BEN BOLT, The ensuing parody upon the old and popu lar song of " Ben Bolt," is not only very good as a parody, but it includes a lesson that may reach the heart of some young inebriate, whom more serious, sober counsels might fail to reach : " Oh ! don't you remember the boys, Ben Bolt, The boys with noses so red, Who drank with delight whenever they met, And always went drunk to bed ? In the old grate yard, in the edge of the town, In corners obscure and alone, They have gone to rest, and the gay young sprigs Have dropped off one by one ! " Oh ! don't you remember the jug, Ben Bolt, And the spring at the foot of the hill, Where oft we've lain in the summer hours, And drank to our utmost fill ? The spring is filled with mud, Ben Bolt, And the wild hogs root around, And the good old jug. and its whiskey sweet, Lies broken and spill'd on the ground. " Oh ! don't you remember the tavern, Ben Bolt, And the bar-keeper, kind and true ; And the little nook at the end of the bar, Where we swallowed the rum lie drew ? The tavern is burnt to the ground, Ben Bolt, The bottles are cradlk,Ll and dry, And of all 'the boys' wtiPspree'd' it there, There remain but you and I !" THE GIPSY BRIDE. CHAPTER I " It is well for the crews of yonder crafts that they will have reached a place of safety be fore another hour," said an old fisherman, ad dressing a young Spaniard who stood near him on the shore of the island Cyprus, watching the white sails of sevel.al fishing-boats as they rose one after the other above the horizon, and stretched their course towards the land. The young man, whom we shall henceforth call Hernandez, having been but a short time on the island, was not skilled in the sign.; •which foretold a storm in the changeful climate of the Levant : nor did lie perceive any altera tion in the appearance of the sea or sky until drawn, by the remarks of the old Cypriote to notice them. The surface of the sea, which but an hour be fore had been tranquil as the spirit of its slum bers. was now furrowed into huge billows, swelling darkly in the distance, that flung up the spray of their snowy crests, as if to play over the wings of the light but steady breeze that swept by them. • Several of the boats had already reached It}nd, and the lighter one's were drawn 'up on the strand, while the crews of the ln.rger were busily employed in.getting out their largest an chors, and strongest cables, to enable them to outride the fury of the coming storm. Those still in the offing pressed all sail and hastened to the bay, while their pilots, one moment, looking to the heavens, watched every change of its aspect with anxiety, at another measur ing the distance to the harbor, as if to assure themselves of a place of safety against the ter ror of the approaching tempest. " She comes ! she comes !" Again shouted the old man, as a white sail loomed up above the horizon ; and Hernandez turning to the direc tion in which ho pointed, could with difficulty discern a small flag flying at her mast head.--e -" Henrico well knows at what time to seek the land, and never was his knowledge so requisite as now. There are many ahead, of him, but I will wager that the Arrow will not be the last to gain her moorings. See, how nobly she bears herself through those swelling waves l" " 'Well does shedesery s e the namn she bears." said .Hernandez ; she holds her course gal lantly through a cloud of foaM; passing one boat after anothdr, seeming more desirous to display her superior sailing than to outdo the coming squall." ' • Scarcely had the Arrow reached her moor ings, when down came the squall in all its fury ; issuing as it appeared, from a small, white cloud that was seen to rise above the horizon, and to increase in an incredibly short space of time. Then spreading over the sea, it harrowed up the billows for leagues, bearing off the feathery spray in light clouds of a thou sand fantastic forms. By this time the crews of several of the fish ing boats had gathered around Hernandez and old Jerome—for such was the name of the old fisherman — and reported that they had seen a largo Spanish caravel from the Bosphorus, which they conjectured could not outlive the present gale, if it did not seek safety in one of the harbors of Cyprus. The storm had reached an alarming height. Dark clouds rolled heavily over the face of the heavens,-while quick successive flashes illumi nated the dome, and deep rolling peals of thun der spoke loudly of the wild conflict of elements. The dark waves, lashed into ungovernable mad ness, raised their giant forms aloft ; then, bursting into misty wreaths, wove a shadoway shrowiwell befitting the'soirit of the storm. a , . , R. R e . • "it'W•qi E . ~c •p--;:. Vrtintrb - _ta Total nO (13enrrat 3rtur, [.grirntlttirr, (n14[15111, 3ioralittj,.sltrittsimimt, Riarkthi, Ct.,sn* VOLUME IX. The fishermen were about. to seek shelter. when of them descried the form of the laboring barque emerging from the boriion, driven mad ly before the fury of the gale, and advancing directly towards the island. As she approach. cd they could discern that she bad been disa bled to a considerable extent: her foremast had been carried away, and it was evident. from the unsteadiness of her motion; that the pilot had now lost all command of her. " All is over with that luckless craft," said Jerome, addressing the commander of the Ar row, " she will strike on those rocks yonder before another hour, where the waves will beat her to atoms ere we can render any assist ance. But we must exert ourselves for the pro s:creation of the unhappy crew." " Father !" said Henrico, " had we not bet.- ter proceed immediately thither, with all the ropes and oars we can collect? I fear our ehlbrts will be needed long before we gain the point : and our delay may prove fatal to some of the unhappy sufferers." They had scarcely reached the point, when with a violent crash, the richly laden vessel struck on a shelving rock, and whirling round lay fast on one side for a few moments until the waves, rushing in boiling surges over her, in a short time dashed her into a thousand frag ments. Then rose the wild cry of terror from the despairing crew and passengers, even louder than the storm that shrieked over them. Some, that had been thrown on the rocks by the violence of the concussion; clambered up beyond the reach of the waves, and there ialtited the proffered assistance of the fisher men ; while others, precipitated into the waves, still plunged and struggled amid their boiling fury. ' A rope being threw]) to one and an oar to another, some few of them were with diffi culty drawn ashore ; while others, grasping a mast or clinging to a plank, butfotted with the waves, and were tossed to ftti, or at times buried in the wild abyss beneath. The scene was one of terror ; but the fisher men with Hernandez succeeded in rescuing most of them from their danger. Hernandez managed the ropes with all the skill of an ex perienced seaman ; adjusted the ladders, which from the difficulty of reaching some points, were found 'ne:•essary ; and guided tte move ments of the entire party, who obeyed his dic tates as willingly as if he had been their accus tomed director. Among those who were preserved were an old woman of Andalusia and her niece, a beau tiful young Castillian of about sixteen summers. They had both clung to the same plank for sa re ly ; and by timely asistance were drawn ashore : more a Irrighted at the perils of their situation than injured by the waves or rocker they had to encounter. No traces of any other remaining, except some few in whom life had been long since ex tinct, whose motionless corpses were seen hang ing in the shrouds attached to some of tho bro ken masts, they prepared to bear the ship wrecked persons to their homes, there to ad minister to their wants. Rude litters were hastily prepared to remove those who were too faint to 'attempt walking ; while those who bad recovered sufficiently were permitted to walk to the dwellings of the fisherman. On Hernandez devoted the care of the old Andalusian and her niece, whom we shall henceforth call Adele. Ile had them borne to the hotel at which he stayed, that all neces saries might be provided for their comfort. During the time that Adele and her aunt remaineil, Hernandez was their constant com panion ; if not for the sake of the elder lady, at least for her niece's, whom he found to be a gentle and amiable girl, of most agreeable dis position. He attended her in all her rambles to the sea short, and to the rock's where' they first met Junder the painful circumstances of the scene we have described. He learned from her the history of their voyage from the Bos phorus, and all the incidents that had occurred during their passage. • After some months spent in this manner, it will not be wondered at if the heaTt of Her nandez hind become entangled in those myste rious meshes which a young and beautiful com panion can so unconsiously weave round a willing captive. But how Adele preserved the freedom of hers, we will leave for the future to disclose. Tn the meantime, business having called Hernandez to Rhodes, he parted with Adele in sorrow at the idea of this short interruption to his pleasure. Being detained there lir a much longer time than he had anticipator, he at length set out for Cyprus at the end of the third month of his alisei , we but what was his disappointment, when he arrived there, to find that Adele and her aunt-had left the island some six weeks before irt a Spanish merchant man bound for Cadiz. leaving no clue by which he could hope to find out their point of desti nation CIIAPTEII II Three years had pased titi , ay, yet Ilernan des had not discovered the object of his search 41 124121113 atnnll 7 -1121121lialli 1131 Tbadritaik3o En fact for a long time past he had given up all hope of ever seeing her again. In the meantime he had fixed his residence at a favorite estatc.in Andalusia. It was situ ated near the Guadalquivir, in a beautiful and picturesque valley, where the woodcrowned hills on either side rose towering to the clouds, while between theM stole the whispering 'Wa ters of the bright stream sparkling like a vein of silver, and smiling on both with all the fas cinations of a coquette, not deigning to be the sole mistress of either. Hernandez, having roamed one evening far ther than usual along the banks of the river, came to a small orange grove, where, tired with exert i ion, he rested under one of its trees. The moon was risen, and gleamed calmly over the tranquil waters. The air was silent, as if bound by some spirit chain ; and the last echo of the night breeze had sunk to rest in some grotto of the mountains. Ile had sat fora long time silently admiring the splendor of the scene around him ; the sound of a paddle plashing in the waters, at length aroused him from his reverie. It pro ceeded from a graceful bend of the river, not far from the place where he sat. Hearing the sound, he started to his feet, when at the same moment the prow of a shallop emerged from the shadow which the grove had cast on the stream, a young female guiding its course along the wave ; to give even a faint idea of whom we will pause for a moment. She appeared to be some nineteen years of age ; her dark hair hung in dishevelled masses over a neck and shoulders of the most exquisite form ; and her wildly beautiful black eye gave an inexpressi ble charm to the soft radiance of a brow, which might have served to inspire the dreams of the Medicean sculptor, while touching for the Last time the brow of his Venus. Thus, with the full glow of loveliness overspreading her fair cheek, we present the young Andalusian to the reader. An unaccountable change came over the features of Hernandez, as the shallop of the fair stranger swept by like the wing of a sea-bird. It had net proceeded far down the stream when he determined to follow its course, keeping at such a distance, however, as not to awaken any suspicion, should the fair girl observe him in his pursuit. He stopped for a moment in the shade of an olive, while the stranger he seemed to take so sudden and so deep an interest in, turned her skiff towards the bank, and having moored it, leaped out, and in a few moments was lost in the surrounding groves. Ile paused foC a considerable time, undetermined whether to proceed or turn back ; until the sound of a lute, accompanied by a voice of the most be witching softness, urged his footsteps still further on. At length he reached a small orange grove, where he , found that preparations had been made for an evening's amusement by a group of gitanas, They intended to celebrate in this place the bridal of two young members of their tribe and spend the night in dancing and re velry. Sonic had been already engaged in the dance, while the sounds of lutes and castanets rose softly on the moonlighted air ; and some, who perhaps, had been fatigued with treading the graceful Spanish measures, were slowly pacing along the river's bank, listening to some pas sionate love talc that burned while it breathed fl'om , the lips of some handsome young gitanas, who had come to share the evening's sports, while others scattered about in gr6ups, were lis tening to some sweet-voiced minstrel, while she blended with the voice of her lute all the soft ness of passion and the sweetness of song. But the largest group had collected around the fair being whom Hernandez had pursued thither, and who now, seated in their .circle, gave freedom to the delightful sweetness of her voice. It rose softly at first; and then swell ing by degrees, rolled in a rich stream of melo dy, while the other minstrels, as if touched by some magical spell of its weaving, dropped their lutes, and sat mutely listening to the de lightful strain. Hernandez leaned for sonic time against a tree that stood near him ; for he was tired with his walk ; it was not until the gitana had ended her song, and all were - engaged in the dance, that he woke from the dreamlike stupor into which he had fallen. He watched the bright form of the gitana float through the dance. Ile could only gaze at her, so completely had she absorbed all his senses; and more than once did he catch the searching glance of her dark eye resting oil him. After the 'Ranee . was ended, he looked round for the form that had so rivetted Lis at tention, but in vain. She was ,gone, and he knew not how to account for her mysterious disappearance, since he thought that he had watched her movements so closely.. Ile went to the bank of the river in quest of the shallop that bore her; but that, too, bad disappeared with the beautiful minstrel ; and he was left to retrace his footsteps to his home with feelings of the same dark hue as were spread around his return to Cyprus, when he found that the idol of his dreams had fled from the shrine. • ALLENTOWN, PA., MAY 23, 1855. All his former hopes returned to him again ; the memories of other years crowded around him ; and his love for the amiable Adele, which only slept for a season, was again restored to its pristine fervor. He knew not why he should have associated the fair Castilian with the beau tiful gitana, or why a meeting of the one should have awakened all his former passion for •the other. Some months of pain were spent by Her nandez, when, one evening, as he was seated in his study, a servant, entered, and handed him a note, the purport of which was, that a company of gitanas entreated perinission to remain on his °State for some time, as one of their tribe tuns too ill to proceed on the jour ney ; and also begging of him to come to their camp, in order that he might prescribe any metines he might think that she had re quired. Hernandez repaired immediately to their en campment, where he found an old woman stretched, in the last extremities, in one of the tents. Beside her bed was the fair forth of the young minstrel that had led him to the festal scene we have already spoken of ; but so alter ed in her appearance, from her constant at tendance on the sick bed of the old woman, that he scarcely recognised in her careworn features the loveliness that had then attracted him. Upon his arrival, the old woman, having re- . covered a little, directed them to assist her in sitting up for a while. Then, motioning Her nandez to a seat beside her, she thus commenc ed : " Since it is the will of heaven that I should once more behold you, the poignancy of pain and the excruciating pangs of mental agony arc mitigated, and death is deprived of half its terrors. But in order that you may fully understand me, it will be necessary that I should give you a sketch of my past' - life, at least in part. I shall then relate some of the incidents in as brief a manner as possible, for I feel that I have no time to spend in circum locution. Some sixteen years since our com pany encamped on the estates of Don Lopez de Vinta, a ci oel and tyrannical man, and an acknowledged persecutor of our race. We had not entirely completed the erection of our tents when he came to drive us off to seek repbse elsewhere. Not content with the peaceable departure which we prepared to make, he en tered into sonic altercation with one of our men who used sonic lan,gunge not suited to his wrathful mood, upon which he ordered his at tendants to lire on us. They (lid so, and several fell, among whom was my son. " Some years elapsed, when De Vinta lost an only daughter in a most mysterious manner.— She was seen on the lawn but an hour before, and in the next she disappeared. lit was who stole the child, intending to have sacrificed it in atonement for the destruction of my boy the winning sweetness of the little girl, and her innocence of her father's crime, preserved her life. " I brought her up, however, in onr wander ing habits ; and but for a debt of gratitude which I owe—though as yet. you are uncon scious, I see, of its being such—would have betrothed her to a bridegroom of our own un happy caste. " Don Lopez is your father's hereditary foe, yet I know that in the heart of Dernandez: dwells no feelings of revenge ; and you will guard the treasure`l leave you, if not for hiS sake at least for her's. But to edtitirm . e. In sailing from Constantinople, accompanied by De Vinta's daughter whom I had taught to call me ' aunt' and regard me as such, we encoun, tered a servere gale' while near the coast of Cyprus, which overwhelmed our 'vessel and dashed her to pieces on the rocks of that iiand, and would have added our names to the cata logue of unhappy sufferers, had not seine fish ermen, with you for their director, saved us from Die perils which surrounded us. You are already acquainted with the manner in which we left the island, but it was only within the last few months that I have been enabled to discover your place of residence. All that now remains for me to add is, that into your hands I deliver the daughter of Don Lopez the young Adele ; you must now become her protector, for I shall soon be gone." Thus far did Hernandez listen to the strange revelation with fixed astonishment, when with a sigh the old gitana expired. Hernandez ghzed for a moment on the lifeless corpse before him ; then, taking Adele in his arms,• for she had fallen senseless to the floor the moment her pretended relative's spirit had passed away, he had her borne to his castle. After some days the gitanas interred their departed sister with their usual ceremonies ; and having given to Hernandez all her paper's and her oilier property, they departed. The papers corrohorated the statement of the old gitana, and several trinkets were fotind mark ed with the well known arms of the house of Don Lopez. • When Adele recovered her senses she deeply lamented the death of her aunt, as she had heed accustomed to call her ; but the presence of Hernandez, and his devotedness to her, wiped away all traces . of her tears. NUMBER 33 In a few weeks after, the scene was com pletely changed ; instead of an encampment Of gitanas, a large festal pally moved in various groups around the lawn, and brilliant bands were seen in all directions, partaking of the festivities ; while the beautiful Adele, the ship wrecked lady of Cyprus, and the enchanting minstrel of the Guadalquivir, moved amongst them all, the most fascinating centre of the cir cle. Hernandez and Don Lopez do yinta quenched in the cup the mutual animosities that existed so long between the rival houses, and a long chain of interests was in time estab lished between them, the first link of which we niust allow Hernandez to consider his GIPSY BILIDE. A Moly Pack of Cards. Richard Middleton, a British soldier, once attended divine service with the rest of his regiment, in a church in Glasgow. Instead of pulling out a Bible to find the parson's text, he spread a pack of cards before him. This be haViour was observed by the clergyman, and the sergeant of the company to which he be longed. The latter ordered him to put up the cards, and on his refusal, conducted him after • service before the Mayor and preferred a for mal complaint of Richard's in decent behaviour. " Well, soldier," said the Mayor, " what ex cuse have you to O'er ? If you can make an apology, it is well ; if not, you shall be severe ly punished." " Since your honor Is so gcod," replied Richard, " as to permit me to speak for my self, an't please your worship, I have been eight days on the march, with the bare allowance of sic,-pence per day, and consequently could not have aßible or any other *good book." On saying this, Richard drew out his pack of cards, and presenting one of the aces to the Mayor, coi filmed his address to the magistrate as follows : —"When I sewn ace, may i t please your honor, it reminds me that there is oily one God ; and when I look upon a two or three spot, -the former puts me in mind of the Father and Son, arid- the latter of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost; a four, of the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Lube and Jelin ; a live, the five virgins Who were ordered to trim their lamps, (there were ten, indeed,) but five, your worship may remember, were wise and, live were foolish ; a six, that in six days God created Heaven and earth ; a seven, that on the seventh day he rested from all that he had made ; an eight, of the eight righteous persons who were saved from the deluge, viz: Noah and his wife and three sons, and their wives ; a nine, of the lep ers cleansed by our Saviour, (there were ten. but only one offered his tribute of thanks ;) and a ten, of the ten commandments." Richard then took the knave, placed it be side him, and passed on to the queen, on which he observed as follows : " This queen reminds me of the queen of Sheba, who came from the uStermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, as her companion the killt does of the Great King of Heaven, and of King George the Second." " Well," returned the Mayor, " you have given men good description of all the cards es- Copt the knave." " If your honor will not be angry with me,' , returned Richard, " I can give you the same satisfaction on that, as on any in the pack." " No," said the Mayor. Well," returned the soldier, " the greatest knave I. know is the sergeant who brought m 6 • b6fore you." " I don't knew," replied the Mayor, " whether he be the greatest knave or not ; but I am sure he is the greatest fool." The soldier then continued, as follows ; " When I count the number of dots in a p:vk of cards, there arc three hundred and sixty-five many days are there in a year: The cards in a pack are fifty-tWo—so many weeks are there in a year. When I reckon how many tricks there are in a pack, I find there are twelve—so many months in a Year. So that a pack of cards is both Bible and almanac, and prayer-book to me." The Mayor called his servants, ordered them to entertain the soldier well, gave hint a piece of money, and said he was the cleverest fellow he ever heard in all his life. [l:7Papa—Why don't they give the tele graph wires a dose of gin ? " - Why my child ?" Because the papers say they are out of order, and mother always takes gin when she is ou of order ! 07'0x a Clergyman's Horse : The horse bit his master, how came it to pass? • He heard the good pastor Cry, " All flesh, is grass." • 1:0 ; " Cabbiire," says the Edinburg Review, " contains more muscle-sustaining nutriment than any other Tegetable." This probably ac counts for the fact of there being so many ath letic felloWs among the tailors. ET - Men scorn to kiss among themselves, And scarce will kiss h brother : Women oft want a kisS so bild, They smack and kiss each other ! JACKSON AND CLAIC POINTS OF ItESEMBLANCIL—Thorn were Many points of similitude between these illustrioud antagonists. As party men they seemed to stand in irreconcilable antagonism. They gtvertY so in interest, in position, in feeling.. Yet, with all this opposition, there was a striking correspondence between them, not only in character, but in many points of-exterior re' remblanco. Both were born, ur received their earliest impressions, in Revolutionary timo,or from the' principles of the Revolution. Jackson was the elder. But in spirit and gar nius of tho Revolution, outlasting tho period or actual hostilities was equally the inspiration of Clay's awakening and fervid mind. Both were denied the advantages of educed' Lion. Both made a new country the theatre of their earliest exertions. Both were natives of the. South, and emigrated to a new Southern State, with a population like that of the State of their birth. Both weredependent alonoupon their own exertions, and equally independent - of adventious aid. Both were the architect of their own fortunes. Both chose the profession of law as their first introduction to public ; and both, thotigh in unequal degree, encounter ed the same opposition, and met with early success. Both displayed from the start the same enterprising spirit, the same obduracy'and 'vehemence of will, the same almost arrogant defiance of opposition, the same tenacity and continuity of purpose, the same moral and per- , sonal daring. Jackson introduced himself to the practice by undertaking the prosecution of suits which others, of a profession not used to quail before danger or shrink from respon sibility, were intimidated from representing. Clay enrolled himself: a boy among the com petitors of the strongest bar in Kentucky, and issued his writ against one of the most promi nent and powerful of them, in favor of an ob scure bar keeper, at the certain cost of the 514- fendant's deadly resentment ; and defied that : hatred to its extreinest. manifestations. Both early impressed themselves upon the commu nity around them, and were distinguished for the same personal characteristics. Both :rose at once to posts of honor and distinction ; and at an early age enrolled their names, and to the last preserved them, among the first, and the highest of the republic. Both were men of quick preception ; of prompt action ; of acute penetration ; of busi ness capacity ; of mercantile common sense; of quick and unerring judgment of men ; of sin. gular fertility of resources ; 'of remarkable power to create or avail themselves of circum stances ; of consumite tact and management. Both were distinguished for grace and ease or manners, for happy and polished address, and of influence over the wills and affections - of those who came within the circle of their ac quaintance and association. Both were of lithe, sinewy, and slender physical conformation ; uniting strength, with activity and great powers of endurance with a happy facility of labor. Both were men of the warmest Unc tions ; of the gentlest and most conoilitring manners in social intercourse when they wish ed to please : of truth and loyalty, and stead fastness in friendship ; bitter and defiant irk their enmities ; of extraordinary directness in their purposes ; of a patient and indefatigable temper in following out their ends or Waiting for their accomplishment,—Neither could brook a rival or opposition ; and each had the impe rial spirit of - a conqueror not to be subdued, and the pride of leadership which could not follow. They were Americans both, intensely patriotic and national, loving their whole country, its honor, its institutions, its Union, with a love -kindled early and quenched only with death. They both spent much of their long fives' from youth to hoary age, in the public service, maintaining to the last with only tho modifi cations which age necessarily makes upon the. mental and physical constitution, the same characteristics for which they were at first dis tinguished. They lived lives of storm, excite ment and warfare ; each in point of real an. : dimity equally at the head of his party, in anti out of office equally acknowledge 4 leaders, and they died each full 'pf yeais and honors, anti by the same lingering disease ; professing towards the close of life the same religion ; and leaying upon the country, at the death of each, prosper ous and peaceful, a saddened sense of a great and common calamity. Valuable New York Lots. The lot corner of William street and Ex-. change Place, 80 feet deep and 34 feet wide, containing 2,760 superficial feet valued at $lOO,OOO. At the valuation, per acre, it amounts to $1,578,261. The lot on the lower' corner of Broadway and Wall streets, 30 feet by 40, containing 1,200 square feet, is held at $lOO,OOOl This is at the rate of $3,030,000 an acre. The corner lot of Nassau and Wall streets, 25 feet by 00, is held at $125-,000 or $2,420,000 per acre. A lot on Nassau street is bold at $150,000. The lot corner of Cedar and Nassau streets, 25 feet by SQ. is vorth $OO,OOO, which is at the 'rate of $1,90,000' per acre. The lot and building adjoining the Custom House, lately occupied by the Bank of the State and Bank of Commerce, was sold to the United States Governmenisfor $530,000; the area of it is 9,000 square feet. The. rate per acre is $2,420,000, or .f. 500,000. The lot occupied by the 'Mechanics' Bank is appraised at $230,000. The lot is an irregular piece of ground of an area of about 5,000 square feet, and its valuation per acre more than two mil lions of dollars. 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