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Letter, i ' \ Tunkhunnock Borough, Thoiuas A X '■v \ " Township, Newman Mij- H TVindhajrk'i Bnck Block", 1 loga St., Tunk hniina' k, Pa. TIT I I,lt & HEWITT, ATTORNEY'S AT IJ LAW, Office on Tu>ga street, Turikhannock, Pa. K. R. UTTTT. J D*WTTT. T v. SMITH M. P . PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, J • Office <ii Bridge Street, next door to the Demo crat Office, Tunkhannock, Pa. HARVEY MURDER. ATTORNEY AT LAW and GENERAL INBU RANGE AGENT Of fi'-e. Bridge street, opposite Wall's Hotel, Tunkli.-.n fio k Pa. ar. w. rLTioADs, rvi. n., Graduate of the University of Penn'a.) Respectfully offers Iris profe—ioii il services to the jitizens of Tunkhannock .111 I vi -ioity. lb- i"i:i be feunl. when not professionally engage), either at hi? Drug.Store. or at his rcsidom e on Putnam Street. DR. J. u. RORSEI.IRS. HAVING LOCAT EII AT THE FALLS, WILL promptly attend nil calls in the line of his profession—may Lc found at Beemer's Hotel, when not prdessioually Falls, Oct. 10, LaCl. I>R. j* CWeciTKR V Co7, PHVSKIWS SURGEONS, Would respectfully announce to the < iti/.rnsof Wy oming that they have located at M loopaiiy, where (Mey will promptly attend to all calls in the line of their profession. May be found at his Drug Sloro when not professionally JM, IAHE\ , 1). ■> • M. Institute. Cincinnati) would resentfully • anounee to tlie citizens of Wyoming an) Luzerne Counties, that he e lutinues Ids regular practice iri the various departments of his profession. May r,e found a' hi* office or residence, when not professionally ab isnt I Particular attention given t > the treatment Chronic Diseas. entremoreland, Wyoming Co. Pa.—v2n2 WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO , I* V I'll IB establishment has recently been refitted and furnished in the latest style Every attention wiil he given to the comfort and convee'e&ce of those WJO putroiiize the Ilonse. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor. Tunkhannock, September 11, 18G1. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA RILEY WARXER, Frop'r. HAYING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to rsnjer the house an agreeable place of sojourn for .l who may favor it with their custom. RILEY WARNER. ■'•rtemlier 11, 1961. MAYNARD'S HOTEL, TIXKII AXXOCK, WYO-M IN G COUN TY , PENNA. JOHN MA Y N AU D , Proprietor. UAVING taken the Hotel, in the Borough of Tunkhannock, recently occupied by Rilcv Warner, the proprietor respectfully si Ii its a share of paMie patronage. The House has been thoroughly repaired, anl the comforts and accomodations of a fir-u class Hotel, will be found bv all who may favor it with their custom. Ber>tonV>p 11 M. OILMAN, DENTIST. 6 AT GILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk -J • bannock Borough, and respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of this place and surrounding country. ALL WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS FACTION. i ffOffico over Tutton's Law Office, near the Pos Office. Dec. 11, 1361. HO \V AR D ASSOC IATION, HIIILADELPHI A. For the "Relief of the Sick <s• Distressed, afflicted irith Virulent and Chronic Diseases, and especially for the Cure of Diseases f the Sexual Organs Medical advice given gratis, by the Acting Surgeon valuable Reports on Spermatorrhoea or Semmas 6 *kness, and other Diseases of the Sexual Org* is anion the New Reinediesemployei in the ry, sent to the afflicted in soaled letter onvelope f- ie of charge, fwo or three stamps for postage will be ae-eptable. Address, Dr J 3KILEIN HOL'GU TON Ahting Surgeou, Howard Association, N'soly Ntnth street, Philadelphia Pn, ln2oly. T IME FOR FARMERS, AS A FERTILIZE MU for sale at VERNGY'S. Mhaheppfn, Sepf 19. 1961. pott's Cornet. ON THE MARCH. A soldier lay on the frozen ground, With only a blanket tightened around Ilis weary and wasted frame : Down at his feet the fitful light Of fading coals, in the freezing night, Fell as a mockery on the sight, A heartless, purple flame. All day long with his heavy load, W eary and sore, on the mountain road, And over the desolate plain ; All day long throhch the crusted mud, Over the snow and through the flood, Marking his way with a track of blood, He followed the winding train. I Nothing to eat at the bivouac, But a frozen crust in his haversack, ""■ The half of a comrade's store — A crust, that after a longer fast, Some pampered spaniel might have passed, Kuowing i hat morsal to be tho last That lay at his master's door. No other sound on his slumber fall, Than the lonesome tread of the sentinel, That equal, measured pace, And the wind that came from the cracking pine, And the dyingoak and the swinging pine, In many a weary, weary line, To tho soldier's hollow face. But the soldier slept, and the dreams were As the rosy glow of his bridal night, With tlia angel on his breast, For he passed away from the wintry gloom I To the pleasant ligat of a cheerful room, Where a cat sat purring upon the looin, And his weary heart was blest, His children came—two blue-eyed girls. With laughing lips and sunny carls, And cheeks of ruddy glow— ; And the mother pale, hut lovely now, ] A- when upon her virgin brow ! lie proudly scaled bis eaily vow, j In the summer, long ago. But the reveille wild, in the morning grav, I ° ° " i Startled t lie heauliful vision away, Like a frightened bir 1 ~t tho night; And it see in e 1 to the soldier's misty brain I Bat ihe shrill 'attoo that sounde i again, | AnJ he turned with a dull, uneasy pain, j To the camp-fire's dying light. - 1 Select storn. Reconciliation. BY JULIA A. BURDICK. Shall T ever forget that unhappy day whose miseries ari?e before nu*. even now, with such , terrible distinctness ? j The long, duty road wound like a huge yell' w serjK'nt up the hillside, and concealed i its further course in the forest of stunted pines and half grown hemlocks on the fop j On either side lay freshly ploughed fields with not a blade of verdure to enliven the I vast stretch of brown ; and hack of me the 'ureal, busy, dusty town, from whence a : thousand clanging discords came to my ear, blended and mellowed by the distance into a ; roar like that of the far off, mulled artillery. ; Imagine a desert, sterile, desolate, and silent as the eternal night of (lie iulin ite reaches of moonless, and starless space, ami these arid, lifeless sand-plains fainting and fading still |in the glare of a fierce, unwinking sun, ami I you have the scene that uircked m) tortured eyes. The old gatif keeper looked at me curious 11y as I walked by. lie was only one'of the many phantoms that I passed on my way. , One of these ghouls raised his hat, as f met l him, and another spoke to me. lie was an I old friend, but T sca p cely knew that I had | ever seen such a face otr of the hideou? i dreams of my childhood, when half human 1 monsters assailed me on the verge of dizzy • cldfs, or bore me aloft among nightmare-la den clouds to hutl me down, down, into un fathomable abysses. The smile with which jhe greeted me was almost fiendish; his voice came up from pits of darkness, and wa a concentration of malice, hate, and all wick edness. Was his sardonic grin evoked by a ! similar contortion of inuscle and nerve in my ; own face ? I asked myself the question.— No, for though iny breath came short and quick, and there were demons of anger and pride :n my hea r t, tearing each other like caged giants, I was assured that I had per mitted no signs of the wretchedness within to undermine the rigid tranquility of my I smile, or rise through the calm tones of my j voice. Presently the hot sand began to burn through my thin shoes, and, when I reached the margin of the pines, I was glad to seat myself in the dusky shade, and throw off my warm shawl and close bonnet. I was in a defiant mood now, and smiled contemptu ously at mv own weakness when I found that my anger had, after all, resulted in nothing better or worse than the gnawing j out of the ends of two or three glove fingers, and the breaking apart of the little clasp that joined them at the wrist. What bitter thoughts were iny companions ! Ah, John Hamilton, if you had known to what unchar itableness toward the world j to what bitter feelings ; to what fierce battles witha'l with- "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGIIT."-Tliomaa Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4, 1863. in me that was good as well as that was bad, your insane desire to. know how long you could play the tyrant, and how long 1 would play (he slave was leading me, would you have risked so much to gaiu so little? I had loved John Hamilton dearly, trusted him entirely, and now—it was all over. A woman utterly destitute of heart or soul, a beautiful incarnation of coquetry and deceit had won, without an effort, a love that was nothing to her, but more than my life tome. Even when I felt more secure in the possess* •on of it, and triumphantly thought, "You may take him now, but you cannot keep him ; he values my little finger more than a thous and like you—and even then his heart was suffering itself to be drawn away from me.- And then I thought, if she were only noble, and good—Worthy the love of such a man. I could bear it better j but [—who had count ed myself of so little worth in his eyes, and wondered, knowing that no rareness of bean ty could ever enchain him, what good he had seen in me to love—l felt mjself to be, in all womanly attributes, imeasurably her superior. Gradually my excited mood wore off, and more peaceful thoughts took possession of tnv mind. I was weary enough to be glad to tit still, and calm enough to watch, with some little pleasure, the snowy clouds chasing each other over the blue vault above, and their re tlection crossing and recrossing the placid stream winding through Ihe valley at my feel. My reveries were interrupted by the tramp of approaching horses. A bend in the road concealed them from my view, but the soft rumbling of the carriage, and the even, concerted footfalls ot the horses sounded un pleasantly familiar. It was too late to re treat further back among (lie tress; I could not conceal myself behind the slender trunk of the oiie on whose roots I sat; and then it might not be Jonn. As I feared, it was John with a flush on his forehead, and alight in his eye, whose meaning I could not guess. He sprang from the carriage and came up to me, whip in hand, and with a resolute air. " Magg e,' said he, " are you ready to go home with me ? I think you have admired this charming landscape long enough ; if not, you shall come again to-morrow. Perhaps you have been sketching ? No ? Well, Eat 1 man saw you here two hours ago, and report ed your safety to your mother, and also to your humble servant, who, with disheveled hair and Mreaming eyes, had vainly sought h-r you in every confectionery shop, fancy s'ore, and dry goods emporium in town.— Come, Maggie, yonr mother was really alarm- : ed about you. and charged tne not to return without you.'' '• Thank you very kindly, ceilainlv 1 will go with you," I replied, somewhat haughtily ; and then added, " Dear mother ! she is one of the few people in the world who are not always thinking of themselves " I wou]j not permit him to fold my shawl around me when T arose—an evidence of ill feeling toward hiinelf, which he noticed bv a most provoking little shrug of the shoul ders. Tn our peaceful days, it had been one of my greatest pleasures to allow him to do many thing? for me, which T could do a great deal hotter for myself, and this was one. Like many another aw kward, man, he could not wrap t' e lightest of shawls around me, without pulling my hair down to one side or the other, and pushing rny collar up against rt>y face- But what were collar dis arranged. and etraggling hair, to the delight oMieing served by such a man, in such a ■ •rootle way ? " John." said T. after we were adjusted in ! the carriage sufficiently far apart to accord with my newlp-acquired idea "f propriety, l I should not go back with you if mamma had not. sent for me. I regret very much that she should have asked you to perform >uch a disagreeable task." I said this with all the d'gnity the occasion seemed to me to demand, and had the satisfaction of hearing John langh at it most heartily. " Your mother did not exactly send me; that is, I heard Eastman say you were here, and asked if I might come for you. It de pends entirely upon yourself whether or not it prove a disagreeable task. Let me look m your eyes ami I can very soon tell," peer ing around in rny averted face. " Great pleasure," he muttered in a provukingly sar castic way. "John," said I, with an irropressable burst of grief, '* why do you wish to make me any more miserable ? You know you don't love me !" "My dear little Maggie, I have not said that I did love j'ou ! But I do, though, sens ibly and visibly love you ; better than my pet rneershauin, better than—everything in the world except Brave. The only reason that I love you less than Brave, is, because he does not get angry and rush off to the pi ny fortressess of Summit View, when 1 speak to another dog." " lie would if he had a heart like mine, I between a cry and a laugh. " Yes, no doubt, but he has not, Lr which I cannot be sufficiently thankful. Brave's affection for me is confiding and unselfish ; yours is " " Is what ?" 6aid I, angry again. "Is also. Now, Maggie, let us not quar rel aDy more at present, and you exercise that sweet voice cf yours in telling me of what heinous crime, or horrible breach of po liteness I have been guilty which has offend ed yon so deeply. That yout is much to be coming to be worn for tne alone, save it for sortie one who will appreciate it. Now tell why tne you are angry." "Simply because L choose to be," I replied after a pause, mortified that I had no tangi ble reason to give. " Because, because ! a woman's reason for everything unreasonable. You think Mr. Eas'tnan a" a love of a fellow' because, and you dislike Miss Burton, than whom you have not got a better friend in the world, be cause—you do not know why. It certain!' cannot be because she likes me, that you hate her." " Yes. Ido hate her !' I exclaimed. "If it be wicked, then wicked I am. She is making, me die, she has taken my life—more than my life. You are free, go to her if you love her better than me, and marry her too !" " Marry her too ? I can't marry you both, wouldn't if I could. Ido not think my aunt would be a proper person lor me to espouse in any event." " John," said I" is Mis 3 Burton really your aunt ?" " Certainly she is my aunt, being my moth er's youngest sister, and only a year older than myself. Since the death of her adopted father, Mr. Burton, she has assumed his name in compliance with a request to that efiect contained in his will." " Why "did yon not tell me before ?" " 1 might give your favorite answer, ' be cause ;' but L have a better reason, although it is s cruel and a selfish one. I was anxious to know if your faith in me was as strong as you yourself thought it to be. Do not think that you have been the only sufferer: ft has pained me, beyond expressionl to see how easily you were led to doubt mc." " Pray, John, forgive me !" I cried. "Do you not know that it is because I could die easier than give you up that it made me so wretched to think that you loved 'another!" "And you will forgive me, and love An nie for my sake, until you can learn to love Iter for her own ? She is a belle, hut not s heartless as you suppose ; fir, while she was flirting with her nephew,she was not flirting with Charlie Eastman." 1 had been working surreptitiously, for a long time, endeavoring to get a very plain hut very suggestive gold ring off my third finger; but, after this revelation, I was well pleased to let it remain there. St. Paul's Church saw a double wedding, nit long after and I do not know why anj* person should say that ihe four who, two hours after the ceremony, were off for the lakes aed Niagara, were not four ridiculously self satisfied and other-self satisfied people. Mr. and Mis. John Hamilton are a model couple. They never say' "My love," or, "My dear," to each other, in public, and this is the best pr of I an give that they <h>, not come to harsh words in private. Mrs. John Hamilton (I allude to iny self) is not a boastful woman ; and jou would never find out, by her saying so, that she knows very wrll why her own cozy little sitting room, with the shaded lamp on the round table in front of the fire—the sewing chair, with the basket vfwork close beside it—the large ea sv chair and slippers, a little way off—are things pleasant and enjoyable to her hus band. She knows why he lingers so long over his Coffee, in the morning, and then coaxes her to the street door, with him, be fore he will be convinced that it is late, and he must take liisgood-by kiss and go. She knows why, when, one day, she found a few silver threads in her brown hair, he took her on his knees, and, laying his hand on her head, whispered, " We are growing old, dar ling : but we will always love each other just the same." ANOTHER REMEDY FOR DIPTIIERIA. A Pennsylvania correspondent writes us that the diptheria is very prevalent in some paris of that State, and says that we would confer a great favor upon the sufferers by re puhli-hing tha remedy given about a year ago With tins request we comply. It is as fol lows: " Make two small hags that will reach from ear to ear, and fill theui with ashes and salt ; dip thein in hot water, and wring them out so they will not drip, and apply them to the throat ; cover up the whole with a flannel cloth, and change them its often as they be come cool, until the throat becomes irritated, near blistering. For children, it is nec essary to put flannel cloths between the a?hes and the throat to prevent blistering > When tho ashes have he n on a sufficient tim u , take a flannel cloth and rub it with castile soap until it is covered with a thick lather) dip it in hot water, and apply it to the throat' and change as they cool; at the same time use a gargle made of one teaspoonful of cay enne pepper, one of salt, one of molasses, in a teaspoonful of hot water, and when cool, add one fourth as much cider-vinegar, and gargle every fifteen m'rates until the patient require? sleep. A gargle made of castilc soap is good to be used part of the time." A correspondent in Maine, in sending the above remedy, says there had been a number of deaths from d'ptlieria, until this remedy was used, since when all haTe recovered—N I Y. Tribune. HUMOR OF SOUDIER LIFE. A private soldier, by the namo of Rich ard Lee, was taken before the magistrate of Glasgow, for playing cards during divine ser vice. The aecount of it is thus given in tho English journals : Sergeant commanded the soldiers at the church, and when the parson had read the prayers he took the text. Those who had a Bible took it out, but this soldier had nei ther Bible nor Common Piayer Book:.but pulling out a pack of cards, he spread them oat before him. lie first looked at one card and then another. The sergeant of the com pany saw him and said: " Richard, put up the cards ; this is no place for them." " Never mind that," said Richard. When the service was over, the constable took Richard a prisoner, and brought him be fore the mat or. " Well," says the mayor, " what have you brought the soldier here for?" " For playing cards in the church." " Well, soldier, what have you to say for yourselfV'* " Much, sir, I hope." " Very good ; if not, I will punish you more than ever man was punished." "I have been," said the soldier, "about six weeks on the march. I have neither Bi ble nor Common Prayer 800 k. I have noth ing but a pack of cards, and I hope to satisfy your worship of the purity of tny intentions.' Then spreading the cards before the may or lie began with the : " When I see the ace it reminds me that there is but one God. " When I see the deuce it reminds me Of father and "Son. " When I see the tray it reminds me of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. " When I see the four it reminds me of the lour Evangelists—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. " When I see the five, it reminds meo the five wise virgins that trimmed their lamps, 'lhere were ten, but five were fool ish, and weie shut out. " When I see the six, it reminds me that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth* " When I see the seven, it reminds me that on the seventh day God rested from the gicat work he had made, and hallowed it. " When I see the eight, it reminds me of the eight rig I.teens persons that were saved when God destroyed the world, viz: Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives. " When I see the nine, it reminds mc of the nine lepers that were cleansed, by our Saviour. There were nine out of ten who never returned thanks. " When I see the ten, it reminds me of the Ten Commanduieats which God handed down to Moses on the tables of stone. 1 When I see the King, it reminds me o( the Great King of Heaven, which Is God Al mighty. " When I see the queen, it reminds me of the Queen of Sheba who visited Solomon, for she was as wise a woman as ho was a man, Bhe brought with her fifty boys and fifty girls all dresse'fl in boys 5 apparel, for King Solo mon to tell which were boys auJ which were girls. King Solomon sent for water for them to wa.ah ; ibe girls washed to the elbows, and the boys to the wrists, so King Solomon told by that." '• 'Well,' said the mayor, 'you have given a description of every card in the pack except one.' "'What is that? " 'The knave,' sairt the mayor, " 'I will give your honor a description of that too, if you will not be angry.' " 'I will not,' said the mayor, ,if you do not term me to be the knave.' " 'Well said the soldier,' the greatest knave that T know of is the constable that brought tne here.' " J do not know,' said the mayor' 'if he is the gieatcst knave, but I know he is the greatest fool.' " 'When I count how many spots in a pack of cards, I find three hundred and sixty-five— as many days as there are in a year. • ( 'When I count the number of cards in a pack, I find there are fifty-two—the number of weeks in a year ; and I find four suits—the number of weeks in a month. " 'I find tliero are twelve picture cards in a pack representing the number of months in a year ; and on counting the tricks, I find thir teen—the number of weeks in a quarter. '"So you see, si r, a pack of cards serves for a Bible, almanac, and common Prayer Book.' A PRACTICAL SECESSIONIST, — Western Virginia, a few months ago, seceded from Virginia, just as South Garolinia seceded from the Union,and set up her independence. The Black Republican Congress recognized tho act, and though the leaders declared it contrary to the Constitution, they admitted her as an independent State into the Union. The President has sigued the bill, and there by approves in Western Virginia what he condemns in South Carolina, and acknowl edges himself by the act to be a practical se eessiooiib I TERMS: 81.QO PER. AXNTJM "CONSISTENCY THOU ART A JEW* EL." I do not want to issue a document that the world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. —AßE ; LINCOLN. I declare that I have no purpose directly indirectly to interfere with the institution slavery in the States where it exists } that I lelieve I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.— ABE'S INAUGU RAL. On the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State tr part of a State the people where of shall be in rebellion against the United Slates will be thencefcrward and forever free. —ABE LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION. And people, any where,-being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off" the existing government, and form a new one that will suit them better. This ia a most valuable a most sacred right—a right which we hope'and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to case* in which the whole people of an existing gov ernment may choofe to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolu tionize and make their own of 60 much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down A minority, intermingled with, or near about them who may oppose their movements.— AßE LIN COLN s SPEECH IN CONGRESS. After reading these extracts who will ques tion A-b-e's h-o-u-e-s-t-y. NECESSITY OF MORAL COURAGE. A great deal of talent is lost in the world for the want of a little courage. Every day Rends to their graves a number of obscure men who have remained in obscurity only because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort, and who if they could have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in tho career of fam® The fact is, that to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating risk and adjusting nice chances ; it did very well before tho flood, when a man could consult his friend upon an intended publication for a hundred and fifty years, ard then live to see its suc cess afterwards ; but at present a man doubts and waits, and consults his brother and his particular friends, till one fine day he finds that he is sixty years of age ; that he has lost so much time in consulting his first cousins and particular friends, that he has no more time to foilow their advice. WIIEKE THL NEXT ARMY IS TO COME FROM* Tbe timely warning of Gov. Seymour as to he necessity of providing more men to sup ply the place of those soldiers whose terms of enlistment will expire during the coming Spring seems to have been entirely ignored by the administration leaders and press. It seems to be taken for granted by them that our last white army is now in the field, and that if any additionil troops are to be called into the service they must come from the plantations. Hence Thad. Stevens' bill to arm 150,000 negroes, and Mr. Beecher's dec laration that the slaves are now the military forlorn hope of the republic. But is it really true that no more whit# soldiers can be enlisted ? It cannot., of course, be denied that the North,once united, is now divided in sentiment. So long as the war was for the restoration of the Union un der th • old constitutional guarantees there was no difficulty in raising troops ; but now : that it is simply a conflict for freeing negroes, the larger half of the Noith has had its I enthusiasm chilled. This cannot be denied. But how is it with the Republican party 1 Snrelv there can be no lack of enthusiasm for the war in that organization. They have declared that emancipation would not only create trouble at the South by rous ing the negro population, but that it would be received with delight by the real war party of the North. The roads "were to swarm with recruits," and "the three times three hundred thousand abolitionists who had not yet smelt powder" were to take the field. By next July it is as certain as that two and two make four that half our army will be disbandtd or dead. Now, therefore, is the time for the Republican to fill up the ranks They are bound in honor to do so.— IForl f HOW TO BK HAPPIER. A venerable farmer some eighty years f age, said to a relative who lately visited him " I have lived on this farm for over half* century. I have no desire to change my res idence as long as I lire o earth. I havo r. desire to be God of my fathers with the tame people for more than forty years. Dur ing that period I have rarely been absent from the sanctuary on the Sabbath, and have never lost but one communion season. f have never been confined to my bed by sick ness a single day. Tbe blessings of hare been richly spread around me, and I made up my iniud long ago, that if I wished to be any happier, I must hare more religion VOL. 2, N0.26.
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