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A'Fhii-.su of ours, poetically Inclined, sub
: mits the following as liH experience, not long
I since, slcigh-ildlng :
Wo vera olllcklng purly, you'd havo said
had you seen us,
That started for . , all rampant for fun j
And we'd havo collared him Instant, tho grave
ignoramus,
Who'd have ilured to approach us with ought
but a pun.
Laughing girls, the bells' music, snow dancing
and whirling,'
Gave zest to our feelings as fast wo sped on ;
Hut wo soon sought for comfort t'nu wind it
blew etingiiig
'Neath tho robes, tho warm coals and tho fold
of tho arm.
'Git out ! now, you bet !" I had "tall times"
lor one
Aad might havo had lowju; bad our luck but
held on ;
Was ever an accident half so provoking ?
The sled overturned and wo were plunged iu
a "run I"
Oh ! glory departed I vain sighs of regret 1
Slight licrean s of terror ! garments all wet !
"What a nice plcklo 1" guaped out P"''
"Tom."
"Come, pick up tho 'dry goods' and lot's get
along 1"
A half mile between us and the hearth-stone's
Svarm glow
Was quickly passed over on tho sort, yielding
snow J
Cavalier-liko wo trudged it, the girls in the
sled,
Alas! for tho romance 1uouo there it had
lied 1
'Round tho old-faahloned flrc-sido, tho luro of
its flame,
Drew moisture from garments, revived epitlrs
. again ;
Tho smiles of our hostess to our enjoyment
was lent,
But the "tear" iu my feelings proved loo great
u rent.
Now, you "Lizzies" and "Lulus" and ".Hol
lies" and all,
Tom," "Fred" "Dos.," "Harry" respond to
my call;
Hour what 1 toll you, don't urge mo to rido
For I'm sick of tho sport havo no caro to
slide j w M N M M
VUAT THK KSGINEER.TOLD.
I am tn cnguieor. Ever since tlio
roail was laid, I'vo traveled over it
every day, or nearly every day of my
life.
For a good while I've lmd tho same
cupfuio in charge the San Frnnuisco
the prettiest eng'mo on. the road, mid as
well managed, it I sny it, as tho best.
It was a south-western road, running
we'll say, from A. to Z. At A. my
good old mother lived, nt Z. I had the
sweetest little wife undor the sun, and a
baby i and I always had a dollar or two
to put by for a rainy day. I was an odd
kmd of a man. IJoing liut up with
tho engine, watching with all your eyes
and heart and, inside and out, don't
make a man talkative.
My wile's namo was Josephine, and I
called her Jo. Somo people called mo
unsociable, and couldn't understand
how a man could frul friendly without
saying ten words an hour. So, though
I had a lew old friends dear ones, too
I had not as many acquaintances as
most people, and did not caro to have.
Tho house that held my wile ami ba
bies was tho dearest placo on earth to
me, except the other houso that hold my
old mother up at A.
I'd never belonged to a club or mix
ed myself up with Btrangers in any
such way, mid never should if it hadn't
been tor Grnnby. You see Granby
was one of tho share-holders, a hand
some, showy fellow. I liked to talk to
him and we were friends, IIo often
rode from T.to A. and back again with
me, and once he said :
'You ought to belong to tho Scientific
Club, Guelden.'
'Nover heard of it Raid I.
! 'I am a member,; said he.
''Wo meet oncoa fortnight, and havo
a jolly good time, We want thinking
men like you. Wo have some amongst
us now. I'll propose you if you like.'
I was fond of such things, and I Lad
an idea that I fancied I might bo worth
something. But then an ungmeor don't
have nights or days to himself, and tho
club would take ono evening a forU
night from Jo. I said :
I'll ask her, If alio likes it, yos.'
'Ask whom!' said he.
; 'Jo,' said I.
, 'If cvory man had asked bis wile,
every man's wife would bave said, 'oan't
spare you my dear,' and we should have
had no oluo at all, said Urauby.
I Butl mado no answer. At homo I
told Jo.;, SheBaid:
'I oliall miss you Ned , but you do
love such things, and then it Mr. Gran
by belongs, they must bo superior men,'
'No doubt,' said I
'It isn't everybody who cou'd ' bo
madit a member,' said Jo. 'Why of
course you must say yes.'
So I said ycJ and Granby proposed
mo. Thursday fortnight I went with
him to tho rooms, I hero wore somo
men with brains there, somo without.
Tho real business of tho evening was
the supper, and so it was every evening
I'd always been a tempeiato mnn. I
uctinlly did not know what tffect wino
would havo upon inos but coming to
drink more of it than I over had before
at tho club table, 1 found it. put tho
Btcam on. Alter so many glasses I
wauled to talk ; altor so many more I
did.
1 seemed liko somebody else, the
words wtro so ready. My littlo ideas
came out and were listened to. I made
sharp- hits ; I indulged in repartee ; I
told stories ; I even camo to puns. I
heard somebody say to Granby : 'By
George, that's a man worth knowing.
I thought him dull at first ' Yet I
knew it was better to bo quiet Ned
Guoldon, with his ten words an hour,
than tho wino mndo wit I was.
I was suro of it when three- hours af
ter, I stumbled up stairs ut homo to find
Jo waiting for mo, with her babo on her
breast.
'You've been deceiving mo,' Baid Jo.
'I've expected it, but I wasn't sure. A
scientific club couldn't smell like a bar
room.''
'Which means I do,' said I, waving
in the middle of tho lvom like a signal
ilag at a station, and seeing two Jos.
'And look hko one,' said Jo : und she
went and locked herself aud the buby in
the spare bed-room.
One club night, as I was dressed to
go, Jo Blood before mo.
'Ned,' said she, 'I never had a fault
to find with you before. I'll say that.
You've been kind, and good, and loving
always j but I should lo sorry we
i ver met it you wore to go on this way.
Don't ask mo wat I mean. You know.'
'Jo,' said I, 'it's only on club nights.'
'It will grow,' said she.
Then she put her nr.n aroud my neck,
'Ned,' said she, 'do you think a thing
so much liko a bottled up and strupped
down demon ft3 steam is, is fit to bo
put into tho hands of a drunken man 1
And Bomo day, mark my words, the
time will come when not only Thursday
night but all the days of llw week will
bo the saiuo. I'vo often heard you won
der what tho feelings of an engineer
who has about the sumo as murdered a
train full of people must be, and you'll
know it you don't Btop whero you are.
A steady l and and a clear bead havo
been your blessings all these years.
Don't throw thorn uway, Ned. It you
don't caro for my lovo, dout ruin your
self.' My little Jo. Sho spoke from her
heart, and I bent over and kissed her.
'Don't bo afraid, child,' I said ; 'I'll
never pain you again,'
And I meant it, but at twelvo that
night I felt that I had forgotten the
promise of my resolution.
I couldn't go homo to Jo. I mndo up
my mind to sleep on the club sofa and
lenvo tho place for good next day. Ai
roaiiy I felt my brain reel as it never
had before. Iu an hour I wasia a kind
of a stupor.
It was morning" A waiter stood
ready to brush my coat. I saw a ijrin
on his black faco. My head seemed
about to burst my hand trembled t I
looked at my watch I had only just five
minutes to reach the depot.
Jo's words came lo my mind. Was I
(it to luko charge of the engine 1 I was
not fit to answer. I ought to havo ask
ed somo sobor man. As it was, I only
caught my hat and rushed away..' I
was just in time.
.The Sun Franoisoo gllUorod iu the
morning sun, Tho oars were filling
rapidly. From my post I could hear
tho peoplo talking biding each other
good-bye, promising to write and come
again. Amongst them was an old gen.
tleman I know by 'sight ono ot the
shareholders he wat bidding two timid
girls adieu.
Qood byo, Cittynood-bye Luo t' I
heard him soy t 'don't be nervous. Tho
Sun Franoisoo is tho safest ongiuo on
the Uuo and Guelden the most careful
engiuoer. I wouldn't be afraid to trust
every mortal I love la butch to - tholr
keeping. Nothing could happen wrong
with tho two together.'
I said, 'I'll get through it some how,
and Jo shall talk to me nirain.' Alter
all it was easy enough. 1 reeled as I
spoke. I heard tho signal. We were
off.
Five hours from L. to D., fiyc hours
back. On tho last I should be nivself
again, I knew now, I saw red flutter,
and never guussud what it was until wo
passed tho down train at the wrong
place. Two minutes more and we
should hayo had a collision. Somebody
told mo. I laughed. I heard him say
respectfully
'Of courso, Mr. Guelden, you know
wh it you aro about V
Then I was alono and wondering
whether I should go slower or faster. I
did something, tho cars rushed on at a
fearful rate.
Tho same man who had spoken to me
beforo was standing near mo. I heard
somo question.
Uow many miles an hour were wo
making? I didn't know.
R atio, rattlo, rattle I I was trying now
to slacken tho speed of tho San Francis
co. I could not remember what to do.
W as it this or that T Faster only fas
ter. I was playing with tho engine
liko a child. Suddenly thoro was a hor-
riblo roar a crush ; I was flung somo-
where. It was into tho wator. By a
miraelo I was only sobered, not hurt. I
gained the shore j I stood upon tho
ground between tho track and tho
river's edge, and there gazed at my own
work.
Tho engine va9 in fragment, tho
earn in splinters : dead and dvinsr and
wounded were strewn around men
and womon und children old ugo and
tender youth. There were croans aud
shrieks of despair. Tho maimed cried
out iu pain ; tho uninjured bewailed
their doad, and a voice, unheard bv any
other, w. s in my ear, whispering 'mur
der !'
TIieno;shad gone back to A., and
peoplo came thronging down to find
their friends. Tho dead wore stretched
on the grass. I went with somo of the
distracted to find their lost ones.
Searching tor an old man's daughter, I
came to a plaeo under tho treo, and five
bodios lying thoro in all their rigid hor.
ror an old woman.a young one, a baby
and two tiny children. It was fancy
it was pure fanoy.bora of my anguish
they looked like oh! great Heaven
they were my old mother, my wife my
children, all cold and dead!
How did they coino on iho" train?,
what chanco had brought this about?
No ono could answer. I groaned, I
Boreamed,. I clasped my hands, 1 tore
my hair. I guzed on the good old faco
of her who had given me birth, on the
lovely features of my wife, on my inno
cent ohildren. I called them by name!
there was no answer. There never
could bo nover would bo. And ns I
comprehended this.-enward up the track
thundred another tram. Its red evo
glared on mo; I flung myself boforo itj I
ii-1 1 u crusn mo to atoms 1
'IIis head is extremely hot,' said
somebody.
I opened my eyes and saw my wife,
'How do you feel,' sho said, 'a littlo
better P
I was so rejoiced and so astonished
by tho Bight of her, that I could uot
speak at lirst. Sho repeated the ques
tion.
'I must bo crushed lo pieces,' I said,
tor tho train wont over uioi but I feel no
pain.'
There bo goes osain about tho train?'
said my wife. Why, Ned.'
I tried to move there was nolhine
the matter with moi I sat up. I was in
my own roouii opposite mo a crib iu
which two children wero asleep, beside
me a tiny bald baby bead, My wife aud
children wero eafel . Was I delirious, or
could it be? '
Jo,' ttriudl, Hell mo what happoned,'
It's nine' o'clock,' said Jo. 'You
oanie home in such a dreadful state
from tho olub that I could not wake you.
You weren't fit to inanaco steam and
riskpeople'B lives. Tho SanFrancisoo
is halt way to A., I suppose, and you
have beon frightening me to death with
your dreadful talk,'
And Jo bogau to ory.
It was a dream only an awful droam,
But I had lived through it as though it
Hero reality.
Is there a Bible In the Louse, Jo,'
Baid I, .
' 'Aro we hoathoni!' aakod Jo.
'Give it to mo this moment, Jo.'
Sho brought it, and I put my hand on
it nnd took an oath (too solemn to be
repeated here) that what had happened
never should again. It never has. And
it the San Fianuisco overcomes to grief,
the verdict will not bo, as it ought to bo
so often lie emjincer was drunk.
A MOTHER'S LOVE
Happily, a mother's love is something
upon which the great majority of man
kind can look back reverently and
fondly look back for an objeolivo rep
resentation of its main characteristics.
Oh, tho uiisellish'ness ot it! How,
months before it can be returned by any
thing beyond a momontary dance of
light in her child's oyes, or a curvature
of its toothless mouth into a smile, or a
orow, or a fling ot th'i limbs, expressive
of enjoyment, it pours itself ou: in seem
ingly wasteful superabundance, intent
upon giving rather thait receiving, re
joicing to nunistor rather than bo minis
tered to, accepting without a murmur
days of caro sometimes flecked with pain
and nights of broken rest, and rendering
without stint unnumbered services which
to others would be self denial, but tho
irksoiuencss of which her over gushing
affection, without a moment's pause of
self-consciousness, cleanses away, and
renders invisible ! And then tho pati
ence and long suffering of it the faults
it will cover over with its ever-reidy
mantle, the negligepce it will drop tears
over in secret and openly forgivo. tho
affronts it will survivo, tho disappoint
ments it will endure nud conceal, tho
ingenuity it will display in devising
plausible excuses and ovon satisfying
reasons for manifest wrongs, and tho
eagerness with which it will take upon
itself, if possible, tho consequences ot
transgression.
There is nothina quite liko it in this
world of ours nothing so morally beau
tiful; a self-fed, self-sustaining lovo,
which can traverse wide deserts, and,
liko tho camel, keep itself alivo upon its
littlo hoards of remembered joy, whou
all other lovo fails tho ono human love
that spends itself wholly upon its objects,
and tho roots of which even ingratitude
cannot entirely kill. But, when re
turned, as in somo measure it mostly
will be, to what strength and beauty of
sclf-sachfioe will it uot grow! yet.uuder
any circumstances, chiefly a sorrow
bearing love, of which the joys aro cares,
tho duties are inflictions of pain upon
itself, the prido is nourished to bo bo-
stowed elsewhere, and tho fondest gain
is the sorest loss. About every true
mother thero is tho sanctity of martyr
dom and when sho is no more in tho
body, her children see her with tho ring
of light around her head. ,
For Ilia Rkimjiimcax.
. GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA.
I am composed of 25 letters.
My 10, 21,24, 10 22, 11, 13 isaeounty
m Western Pennsylvania.
My 20, 17, 10, 21, 22,23 is a town in
somerset Co., 1'a. .
My 12, 13, 22, 11, 8 is a town in Fay
ette county, l a.
My 21, 22, 1,14. 21, 9, 1, 11,13 is a
town 111 Jlekean county, l a.
My C, 5, 22. 7 is a county in North-
Western 1 enn n.
My 10, 2, 3, 13, 2 1, 25, 4, 11 is a coun
ty in southern JN x.
My 14, 1C, 11, 15 is a town on tho
Hudson l,i ver.
My 18, 22. 14, 10, 24, 22, 10, 25 is a
town mat. LavtroncQ co., JN. 1.
My 10, 19, 20,21 is a town in Alle
gheny co., IN. x.
My 12, 14, 22, 10, 21 is a town in
Onoidn co., N. X.
My 21, 22, 20, 9, 16, 14, 15 is a town in
Sullivan co., JN. 1,
My 18, 11, 10,14, 10, 21,22,13 14,11,
2b is a town in bohuylkill co., l'a,
My 10, 24, 25, 14, 11, 13 is a town in
Itrautord co., l a.
My whole is tho namo of a political
paper published in Western Pennsylva
nia. Amu.
Answer next week. ;
We, iu the North, who aro accustom
ed to repeated snow storms every win
ter, lind it dillloult to oo nooive of a
place whero winter comes without snow.
In Now Orleans snow storms are rare
visitors, and the New Orleans Picayune
has published a reoord of them during
the present contury. It states that in
Decombor, 1800, snow fell for the first
time in twenty years. Snow again fell
in 1817, and again on New Year day,
1822. The noxt snow storm was on
February 8th, 1831, altor whioh twenty-
ono years elapsed before the next snow
storm occurred, 1852. Sinoe thatpu-
nod no snow has fallen in Lo'uisana,
those five snow storms being the total
Dumber reoorded in, eighty-seven years!
A "TIMBER HAT."
Somewhere about tho year 1780 (so
runs the talo,)a travelling millwright
in thoso days the king ot mechanics
footsoro, and with tho broadest North
orn Doric accent, stopped nt Soho, a
locality oneo mdicativo of 'field sports,
but then tho engino factory of Boulton
& Watt, nnd bo asked tor work.
His aspect was littlo bettor than one
of 'beggary and poor looks,' and Mr.
Boulton had bidden him God-speed to
some other workshop, whon, as ho was
turning away sorrowfully, Mr. Boul
ton suddenly called him back and in
quired;
What kind of a hat hayo you on your
head, my man?'
'It's just timber, Bir.'
'Timber, my man? Let's look at it?
Whero did you get it?'
I just mado it, sir. my niu'sol.'
How did you make it?'
'I just turned in the lathio.'
'But it is oyal, man ; and a lathe turns
things round?'
'A weal? Ijustguar'd the lathio gang
auither gait to please ii e. I'd, a long
journey nforo me, and 1 thoeht I'd have
a hat to keep out tho water; and I had
na mucklo siller to spare, aud I just
mndo one.'
By his inborj meohanism, tho man
had invented the nval lathe and mado
his hat, and the hat made his fortune.
IIo became a distinguished machinist.
Sir Isaao Newton wroto a commen
tary Upon Prophet Daniol, and another
upon the Book of Revelations; in one
ot which ho said that, in order to fulfill
certain prophecies beforo a cortain date
was terminated the 1,200 days, or
prophetio years, of Daniel there would
be a mode of traveling discovered of
which tho men of his time had no con
ception ; nay, that the knowledge of
mankind would be B) increased, that
they would bo able to travel at the rale
ot fifty miles an hour! Voltaire got
hold of this, aud Bueonngly said: 'Now
look at that mighty mind of Newton,
who discovered gravity, and told such
marvels for us to admire ! Whou he
beenmo an old man, and got in his
dotage, ho began to study that book
called the Biblo; and it seems that, in
order to credit its fabulous nonsense,
we must behove that the knowledge of
mankind will be so increased, that we
shall bo ab!o to travel at tho rate of
fifty miles an hour! The poor dotard!'
exclaimed the philosophic infidel, in tho
self complacency of 1ns profound igno-
A Pointed Illustration. A corres
pondent of the Milwaukoe Sentinel says
that the following colloquy recently oc
curred between a noisy ,brawling Demo
oral politician and a quiet, obseiving
Republican. It hits the nail on the
head, and is too good to bo lost:
Democrat I demand to know, sir, it
tho States lately in rebellion are in the
Union or out of the Union. Just ans
wer that if you will'.
Republican The question is well il
lustrated in your own personal history
Four) ears agJ you united with the
Church here; and, if I am rightly infer-
mod, you havo been rather a hard mem
her to mauagoj awd lately charges have
beon preterod against you for downright
misconduct, and you have been suspen
ded until your case can be examined,
and your fitness for membership deter
mined. Now, sir, I demand to know
whether you aro iu tho Church or out of
the Church.
The Democrat appeared to see the
point, aud left.
A Somkwhat interesting - episode
occurred at Speaker Colfax's reception,
a tew evening since, JUossib. Jiedlord
and Leach, ot North Carolina, and Mr
Mullen, ot Virginia, all members of
Congress before the war, were present,
and in the oourse of conversation ex
pressed thoir desire, in a laughing, jocu
lar way, to once more get aboard of the
good old ship Union, and asked Mr.
Colfax whon, in his opinion,, the happy
time would oomo. Uoliux smilingly re
ferred them to Chief Justice Chase, who
was ohatting with s bevy of interest
ing ladies, He, in turn, not knowing
of the reference mado to . him, referred
them to Congress, poiuling to Speaker
Colfax. , Between the two august bo
dies hangs the whole question, and if
the Southern gentlemen named found a
solution of their . anxious wishes, they
must be far more complacent than are
the majority of the people to day.
The Press, the Pulpit and the Petti
three rulincr cowers ot the dav.
The first spreads knowledge, the seoond
spreads morals, and the third spreads
considerably.
A COOL FARMER.
Wo have seen and heard ot cool pro.
eeeduigs ere this, but the conduct of the
Vermont agriculturist was positively
'iced.' lie once sold u loud of hay to
his neighbor, who contrary to his expoo
tations, utter seeing it weighed, stayed to
seo it unloaded. But u few torkfulls wero
off, when a bouncing ' rock rolled from
the load; then another, then a third,
camo bang upon the floor 'What's this 1
queriod tho dealer in ulond voion. ,
'Most all hcrd-grass this year replied
the deaf man.
'But, soo bote,' continued tho other,
pointing to tho boulders which lay ar
rayed in judgment ngaiiiBt tho dishonest
bnymnn, 'what does all this mean?'
'Shan't cut nigh so much hay this
year as I did last,' replied tho dealer
in herd grass,
Just as he had finished tho last sen
tence, down thundtrcd a rousing oliunk
ot granite, making a deep indentation
in the barn floor with one of its sharp
angles.
I say, neighbor N.,' soreamed the
purchaser of granito. 'I want to know
what in thoh 11 theso aro?' point
ing to the boulders and tho big lump of
granite.
OldN. took up a mighty forktull of'
the herd-grass, gave it a toss into tho4
hayloft, then, leaning upon his fork,
ejecting his hugo quid of tobacco, and
replacing with a fresh ono, he took a
view of the fragments of stone wall that
lay beforo him, and, with one of the
blandest smiles he replied Them's roeksV
Matrimonial Market. Tho matri
monial niarkot, romarks an exchange,
about this time of year is pretty firm,
but the diflereut qualities of stock thrown
upon the market make the fluctuations
frequent. 'Sweet sixteon's are active,
but not up to the demand, and 'go off
at previous figures. Lassos of 'twenty'
'brisk' and sales are more 'lively.'
Misses 'of ago' weak and fully up to the
demand. Unmarried aunts are on the
decline. Old maids sre active and the
market iB stocked Bachelors, in swal
low tailed coats, Beedy an disconsolate.
Spruce bachelors, ot thirty, steady, with
a prospact of a few sales. . Young and
fascinating 'swells' in good demand, and
sales are quoted at 'handsomo figures.'
Tho market closes vory brisk with heavy
stocks on hand.
Tho work on tho great Puoiflo RaiN
road is boing pushed with great energy.
The cars uow run to Cioero, within 18
miles ot the summit of tho Sierra Neva-i
da, aud a force ot 2,000 laborers are at
work on the track along tho Truokee
River. No enterprise of tho present
day has been more enorgotioally pushed
than this, and tho coming summer will
enable them to complete the link, prob
ably, over tho summit. At present the
great depth of snoiv necessarily sus
pends work at that point As it is tho
ears come into Sacramento with two
feet of snow on their roofs, presenting a'
novel und cooling aspect of a warm day
to the linen clad Sacrameutai'S. Cicero
is somo 0,000 feet higher than Sacra
mento, nud ix rise of a thousand feet
higher is yet lo bo surmounted to cross
the summit. Tho steepest grade thus
fur necessary to overcomo bus been 118.
lect to tho mile,
The world is crazy tor show. There
is not one person inn thousand who
dares fall buck on his real, simple self
for power to get through the world,and
exact enjoyment as ho goes along.
Thero is too much living in the eyes of
other peoplo. There is no end to the
aping, the mimicry tho false aim and the -superficial
arts. It requires rare cour ,
ago, we admit, to livo to ono's enlight
oned convictions in theso days. Unloss
you consent to join iu general cheat, you
are lostlod out ot reach, thero is no
room lor you among the great mob
of pretenders, . It a man dares to live
within his means, and is resolute in
his purpose not to appear more than he
really is, let him be applauded. Thoro
is something fresh in such an exam,
pie. '.-.'.
A gentleman was ono day, in the old 1
coaching times, travelling by a ooach
whioh moved at a Very Blow pace.
'Pray,' said he to the guard, 'what is tho ': ,
name of this odaeh?' 'The Regulator,' r .,
was the reply. 'And a very appropriate
name, loo,' said the traveller, 'for I see '"'
all other ooaches go by it.' ; , '
'Shall ladies have yotes?' a stump
Bpesker. 'Certainly, replied a strong' .
minded woman in the audienoe. 'Is '"
woman made only to sow on buttnnet .,
and if she is, it is against the law of na
ture to turn away tho needle from the .
Pf . ,
'A Vermont soldier, entoring the fight
at Fredrieksburg, saw a rabbit running
off the field. ''Go it, Cotton Tail,' , he
exclaimed, 'if I didn't bave a reputation '
to sustain, I'd be going too.'
A Housu who lays his ears back and
looks lightning whon any one approach, .
ei him, is vicious. Don't buy mm. ,
What is that whioh ooours onoo in
a minute, twice in a moment, aud not
once in a hundred years! The letter M,
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