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When at it in skies of blue They n::‘hnlqdfilmu%lh. Mth‘cyshmb.flld the night. Az He sent them, pure and white. ley smow and silver star Fail and hang from skies afar, Whence these crystals in the night, Telling God himself is white. ~“Hermione.” A Boy's Reasen for Leving His Des. He doesn't make me wash my face ‘hands. He doesn't make me go to echool. e doesn’t send me to bed at hal He 33 Ssturday night whether I need it or He doesn't forbia my going in swim- e deesa’t tell lies, but he deesn mind my telling them. He deesn't try to infprove my man- ners : He doesp't ask embarrassing ques- tions. Fle doesn’t mhind my fiehting. He dgesn't make me say “Yes, sir,* and *“No. ma'am.” to people I den't z me—at least, not He with 2 He aos ek per. 't leave his dinper plate to Be W. Whitelock, in Judge. UNCLE JED'S TALK. TO WIDE- AWAKES. n we hear people tell adout bein Tekr jm certain things,”about the good luck experienced when evety- thing goes Iust right. and the bad luek when everything goes deskd wrong. It is quits probable that we all do this at times. what we look upen as luek. or a cizance happening, in most cases really depends upom ocurseives. There may be thess who go tarough Mfe trusting win their way to success fame. but unless thera is soma- more to help them they don't These ee ! things, these whoe those who know no ‘ail and @an't hever reiy to overcome the gbstacles thway of time. u doii't succedd, try, vice that has been v offercd. It is useless | 3 for goed luck to Fad thé great es- bert B. Peary, whose déath ng to give the norta nole be: cawse of what.he might have regarded | bdd luek on several trins, that | much Sought point woull not yei have'l Lgen D { Lack ma~ bave its alavements for a, time, confidence, courage and dete o that are necessary to' win, b LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Hilda Vogt, of New [oadon—I re- eiiyed 3 Myron A s».litch, of Eagleville—, Just to let vu know that. I was! More than gurprised when I veached | ¥ trom s-heol and mother said, | “Go ‘n the other reom and keep Youf cyes on ihe sitting reom table ang gsPthing. ,1 drew nearer the table go great was my surprise to find that’] had won 8 prize book calleq Iron ‘Heast, War Chief of the Iroquois. Have written three letters and this is#my first book. I wish to thank you most heartily. Heathieen Ryan, of Norwich Town— I received the prize book you sent. to for which 1 thank vou very is very Interesting. Lovise Avely of Norwich Town— 1 was very much pleased to reeeive the mice book you sent me entitled Poliy. I have read it and enjoyed it yery m@th and wish to thank you for it Doris M. Bliven, of Volunfewn—1 received the bosk you sem@hmie enti- tieg Wild Kitty. 1 have read a little of it and it is very interesting. I thank vou very much for it, Diana Sgamanes, of Plalnfield—! re. ceived your Book. The Yellow Vielin, for which I wish to thank you very | thought I would write about much. Lesnera Chapman, of Norwich—I wish to thank you for ‘the prize book you gave me entitled Eisie Dinsmore| 1 read it and found it very interest- +ing. 1 am going to write another '¢ | I came to an old desertéd farmbhouse, Onesnight while’ walking alon s lonely street a a‘nl:k‘kun ngzg:l{ nrom;d and ;an in an opposite direc: tion-for my home. - * Thé next morning T ventured out te see whx;n'&m such & -‘hm '.:a( surprise, it ‘was only 3 :;v old Fm. _The next &- I -m’\ot get scared 50 easily. RAYMOND WOOQDS; Age 11. Norwieh. - 3 ———— The House of Mystery. One singularly lovely afts have many reasons for thinking so—] @etermined to take a walk. Overhead a light breeze lisped faintly in tree ke e take a,bath|tOPS here and there bird notes fell, and constantly the air, warm and. still, was sweet with the scent of wild flow= ers. , I had walked about two miles when “The House of Myst been a fitting, name, e ap; of the place “atiracted"my a The forbidding alr of ed to clutch at my heart, around the house ~and fiowers. After picking m: sat down under some lovely trees io sort them, It was very quiet around the place when suddeniy I heard a banging door and- then a piercing shriek. 1 looked up just in time to see some- thing white, and gruesome whisk around the corner, but that was encugh. The first thing that came to my mind was a ghost, 1 dropped my armfal of and down the road I ran for a eonsideradle distance before I sat down to rejt, all out of breath. . 7 { sat there insensible of time yntil T saw the sun descending, when I brave- ly set forward and made the distance to my home yithout any mishamp, LOUISE KOVAROVICS, Age 15. Ashford. g would have rance tention, seem~ Geing Inte Poultry Bus \ A by and I started o nouMry com> Today we have dtarted o make & few coops for . thes little chickens when then hatch out. -As soon as the snow is gene we are going fo.cut some irees and make & big coon for the Wz chickens. We are going to buy about 20 hens and set them on some eggs. When they hateh out we are =oing to. put the liftie chickens and the mother In & senarate coap 39 the hig chickens won't Lill them.” Whan they are hig We are 20ing to gell the roostérs next fz]} and keep the hens and seli the ezzs. EDWARD T. MARRA, Age 12, ster. Everything Gives, _Once on a time, all -alone on the AfldP of a hill, there 'grew a tiny Christmag tree. Man> birdg came to VISt it ang once in & while a little boy or girl would see it and weuld say. “Oh, what a dear little Christ- mas tree ail by itself up there! But s 0 small It isa't any good. I wish We had IL" One t'ma Manlene and George ed up the hill to this 1it- fle tree. The day, was warm, and and s¢ sat dewn to 2 dear!' sald Manlene. I don't believe it does ke our cherry Arees,” . “They give us cherries _flowers to smell, and shadle to der and-apple trees give us ap- nd_others sive us wopd¥ and But this little tree, T wonder to eat &2id - Manlene, “ev: gives somethin, s T most e I think.” g _Svervess A long t'me after when the sum- mer was gone and the winter had come, the snow lay deep on every- _There were no-leaves on the cherry ‘trees, there was no fruit and nearly all the little bushes and SNPubs were covered with stow. Man- ene and George were coagting dow the Tittle hil. g “Oh," said Manlene, “there ig that same Jittle Christmas tree s:d do ses the birds on it. Why, its branches are covered with birdy and they are all picking at gemethi . ¥ what it is™ S Gl They went close to the tiny tree and foung it covered with seeds. does “Well,” giid George, .if birds, and a_warm Ehu to .)zflla e t 1rem something. It gives fe the snow. Everyt ves, & HSN. Age 12, Nerwich, 9 A Trip to the Country, Dear Uncle Jed: I am eleven years story soom anq hope to win another prize book. f WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Charlette Benjamin, of Norwich —The Life of um"' % 3—Rese Easan, of Willimantie— The Auto Boys' Mystery, 3—Mary German, of - Norwidh— Teadsy. : i 4—Emmett Lamb, of North Frank- Mn—The Boy Scouts in. France. §—Elizabeth F. Howarth, of Nor- o For a Fortune. .- t—Edward T, M t Colchester Aéy!..m‘ of Colchs T—Carl A. Kinmouth of Norwich— Rescued By a Prince, 3—Louise Kovarovi of - varovics, Ashford— winners of prize ' besks livi: may call for them at TB Bolletin business office at any hour after 10 2. m. Thursday. A ey _ LETTERS WRITTEN BY WIDE. AWAKES. Thrift, Once upen a time there was an old | made our way to ene end of tha old and I have peard feom H ,_who has teld us so mueh my Bl Triends "about e %) thout Japan, says that e ome Sskel my teip, | & charming Japanese gir] how a doll On July 3d of last year my methes, | C0UId live. “Why" was her reply, sister and 1 started on a journey you love it enough, it will live.h frfom New York to Conneetjout. It'{s a beautifu] idea. : We went by the elevated ‘fi:i‘i}n to]| _In o1d Japan little girls tosk guch the Grand Central depot, There my care of their dolls that these be- sister purchesed our tickets and we ed and hono companions were went to the track frém which our led down from one generation to train was to start. " another and sometimes lived more | We had to wait about fifteen minc| (D80 @ hundred vears. The life-siz- ‘utés and then the gates opencd. 8nd_entered, put - our ‘place, then prepired for Journey. lugsage way : roken, it i - seom e WAy we pameq many pretty| Siroa uy dond. SRULI 1o ot tisaicd nels. Here and there on gr, U0-|as rubbish and thrown away. Neith S6610- Be. ~poen O e Way | er {a it burled. It is laid gently and climbing over hills. We sise pagecy | [VEFeRtly at the food of a partiular 2 brook wWhere some boys were swim- The thij § ming. I dids the traimman “Willimantic!™ i ol train itth"e years' old. It was believeé that Py g .f,’; lected they would fret, or be angry. n't see’ N E ag I fell mup-ofil;'t’o oake sCia| #1fl9 festival day. and” the Feast of tell the | snowball fights. ; OI: WALT) = i use use . think | ‘ ‘No my Dean’ It'is a very mm*“*ge'unémhlflxflcat !X "t si thor ' Tiention them ‘Sl Thore were. Sons dmmfix cups and basins. We went up a hi to a wolf's den. The openin; oo big enough for a person to e There were many benches, one high one losking over ihe place. There | was a large waterfall which was very . As we were there three air- |\ planes passed overhead, buga few of the things we saw. HELEN CONNELL, Age 9. Norwich Town. Saving a Duck. . One day as I was piaying with .Cub. our pet dog, 1 tursed around and 1 saw @ duck that'couldn't seon to his €lde. After a minute or iwo 1 took the duek inte the house. I} soon glad to find out he was get- ting' along nicely and T fed him every night and morning. I'had good times with him and he was always kipd, and when you %o near him he wouldn't act cross. AIll that day I felt as though 1 had dpne a good deed. My moth- er said to me: “T hope you will always be Kind to anything that connot hurt you.” And I hope all the Wide-Awakes will, also. < FLORENCE E, McGOVERY, Age 18. Glasgo, - My Trip to America. In 1913 I was 2 girl of seven and started for America with my mother and two brothers, My father was aiready in Amerita, so he was not with us, but my unele was, and he help- #d us carry the bundies and er There was'a man that we knew, who came, from America and was going back, 80 he knew much about ship- board and we did not. 'z}a first day we went abaard, 1 not sick, but the other days aft- er that I was very sick, and eo was jone of my brathers. but the other one Was running around everywhere, so ‘we were afraid that he would get lost or fall overboard. One day we went out on the deck. and T felf better there, T looked into the water and saw big fish, but I did They | ¥ would jump up and dive in aain. It was fun to Jook at them. One day we were in the cabin, and the waves were dashing higa. They reached the win- dows, and ane of the windows s open, and the water came in.-hut it was clased very soon’ by a bey. Jt took us about four weeks fo met aeross, About the last of the fourth week we reached New York, and we were " surprised’ to sea it. It was early in the morning. - We saw large hujldings. We took the train for lJeweN City and came here one morn- ng. ANNA RYDZEWSKA, Age 14. Jewett City. % i Qur Audubon Society. Ouyr Auguhon sodiety was formed a ‘vear ago this March. There were then fifteen members. It was again formed last September and thera were thirteen members. ~When we Jjoin each member sénds ten cents to Miss Hurd of Norwalk. In return ghe sends us ten seis of bird pictures, and also an_Aubudon Society button, We hold bird mitings the last Fri- day of every monfi. At these theet- ings we discuss the new birds we have seén during the month, play bird games and Instruct the children how to feed and care for the birds. The tollowing are the names of the r: Emmett Lamb, president; Roger Miner, secretary, and Miss A. E. Duerr, treasurer. Since I joined this society the birds have become my friends. 1 feey, care and protect them .as much as possi- ble. I have learned the mames of many different birds, too. I also have learned when - they - fly north, when hew, and where 'they build nests, and when they lay their egg: fore 1 joined this soclety I knew very little about the birds, ‘I didn't know ‘many of thelr names and 1 never ppid much attention to them. Now I am as ‘interested in this syb- Jeet as any other we take up at the school, - EMMETT LAMB, Aged 13. Franklin. ? The Japanese Doll. Japan is the parsdise of dolls. In that country, at one time, certain dollg were said te become allve. Lafcadio Nerth ‘ed dallg represent children of two or these dofls were ill-treated or neg- a Japanese doll, after 2 lo and happy o, et Reron loa rd of March s the Japanese 8. . ELIZABETH F. HOWARTH, Aged 13. orwich. Birds “Are. Tame. Last Monday as I was going te school, I saw I:M; They at you\could almost tame em. it fun at schoel sliding and we ali make anow. forts andthave BCHUTTER, Aged 10. are four séagons of the year, ;‘fifi-nmubm"m“m some new my €. ¥ " In the symmer I pick hui:klebemes» and roaming through the ‘| woods..1 den't think I like the sum- mer go well as other smasons, because e ase Rot 5o many active games to,i A the awfumn I rope, lay marl ee, jump y basel fish, and "pl and These are| John's river, which we found walk. I was [ There are meny_ o'd relics kept thare. ¥ - & Grandma’s Flower Bulb: One of my grandma’s cnmmw‘ ,t:.wu a pretty gla‘:‘a dish with e we put that one in the-center. i We Eot some stones and them in the dish. Then we the bulbs ‘among the stones and the dish with water. _ S s The different one proved to be a tavendar hyacinth, It is very ewset | The others_may be white jonquils. One of them 1z almost ‘Blogbembed. ‘They nteresting to watel Dongfi‘y!rv E. VERGASON, Aged 9, Norwich Town. .- A Visit in St Augustine. ' When we were in Florida we de- cided to come home by the Wway of 8t. Augtstine. 3 ‘When we_drrived at Palatkp we found thht we coulq make better con- nections by having an auto take us to East Palatka. . £ In doing so we had to cross the St. very wide. " We found it to be a toll bridge with .the charge of a guarter. * We reached St. Augiuktine during a ‘heayy thunderstorm. A carriage -took us to our hotel, and soon the sun came out, and we walked over toFart Marion, and went all through _it. ut ed We entered through a secret door, into a dark dungeon, used by the Spaniards, . - 4 One day we went out on the beach and gathersd many b-autiful shells on the white sand. Near there was 2 place where alligators, crocodiles Pelicans, wild .cats, monkeys nd different Ikinds of snakes were kept. They aiso had a variety of artlcles for sale, made from rattlesnake skins, St._Augustine has many _beautiful hotels, and some of the .ald _streets are go narrow that it would be. im- possible for twe teams to passieach other. We thought the people must think all tour'sts had plenty of mon- €y as an admission fee was charged to_nearly all places of interest. Some other time I may tell ' you about our stay In Jacksonville. CHARTQTTE BENJAMIN, Age 13. Norwich. -, Deer Looking Fer Faod. For all we have had a bad storm,! and the -snaw is drifted higher than| my head in most places I have been to schaal every gay. I fegl sorry for the wild birds and animals. I see a number every day most starved. One day I saw six deer together roing to our sheep barn to get hay. There are a number of deer around here. I see them often. Ome day a red fox ran across the path ¥ight in front of uncle shot a gray fox a ago. A C. DO KINMOUTH, Age 9. Nerwich R. D..No. 6. Winter Sports. inter sports who could re- What fun we do have as we speed over the smooth, ice! How time| does are enjoying tHis whale: Nearjy évery afternoon, after school we come home, get our skates, and start off for g little pond, which is not far from the house. We skate unt'l it i3 nearly supwer time and then ~ go home,” Tosy-cheekeq and happy. Qther -afternoons wo get gur sleds whieh 2re flexible- fivers, and g to enjov coasting d » large sied which halds three gnd start at the top and go fivind down the hill, goins out almost io the end of the street. Sometimes the slide s not so exceedingly wonderful and often ends with a tumble in the snow which doesn't bother u 1 the contrary, we: rather Oh, the joys of winter! MARY Norwich. v} ew, England GORMAN, Age 12+~ My Summer Vacation One day in July 1 wa: in the country. by I left here at 6 p. m. and rived in Chaplin about 7 p. m. Some children that live up near the place where I was visiting were just coming up from the pasture, They had been minking the cows. Then was the time I got acquainted with them, The rest of the evening was spent in pleying games, That night we went to bed early. I didn’t sleep very well, being in a n2w place, The next morning we were up bright and early, With my new friends to watch them milk the cows. When we came back we had to go after some mill, The rest of the day was speat in dolng all sorts of things, One day. we -went huckleberrying. We were gone all day up to 3 o'clock, We had huckleberry pie .the nexXt day for dinner, Tt was great..After spend- ing a week in Chaplin I had to say goodbye. When.I was leaving ! s: “There’s nothing like the countr HELEN GATBS, Age Willimantic. Likes the Winter Sports. How many of the Wide-Awakes have enjoYed this stormy weather as gator and] Mabel and I went down ' ) 3 s opposite side o the #ticks. Then stand with E on the floar, press 50 38 to bend the. cros toward the Japtr side. sl, fastening the cord at F to the bend. The bend should be emo! to hmg the string 6 in. away from H. The l!yufi string (A) should be at- tached o H. Another cord, or belly band, sheuld run from'J and be at- tached to the fl 8 in. away from the kite. After the the ‘middle and tie in a heavy rubber band (C) as shawn. g rid The Snap-Up BY B . ANGELL ! "When an/ordinary person sitt down wants {c get up, he turns hfig over and clambers to his feet. A clown does a Snap-Up,” said “This is_the way to do it: I start | from a sitting position—I rofl back onto my neck putting my hands on the mat close to head—my weight is resting on my ':‘Zculdqrs, aeck, and hunds—my- legs are well dver—now— with a quick, hard lift from neck and hands 1 lift my body off, the mat and at the same time throw my feet ‘suiuuat B, abowt . belly band is in place, cut it in two'in | | sognized by the medical profession as. Dra .ot!!u' '!lf’lq a quaint 'me head, a flower of four simple petals, 2 leai, or any " other conventional design, carving this mg your knife, 5 Paint the marker white or green dvnh T made plain, and lettered, radish, tomato, numflu;:s, and "{,110;'.}; l:h you have k:" art, you wi st Foadily sLiable tn the gt shope c i s S s 1s starts as the despise: market basket, and it tirms oat 1o be beautifil. - Use = fairly new, streng basket; and paint it, as you did the _markers, white; or Then ap; a stencil design to the sides, and color it as gaily as possible with oil paints. | mn of flowers, yellow chickens,, or semething else of the gar-; 1ll be attractive. Tie a bow of!| ibbon to the handle, and be dclighted! ith the result. You may want to make: s for aft Eagter gift, . ! Who Said Leap Year! . BY 'MOLLY PRICE COOK. in 1920 forward and bend my knees. Now ! watch—] roll baek—I push hard from hands and shouiders and here I am on my feet” > The hays tried the trick, Ralph did not tuck his feet far enough under and -when he banged on the mat he feil the jar from tip to toe, Allen did noy i get far enough up on. his neck and shoulders before giving the push that should land thc:r)::a feet and Beppo urged him to throw out his chest and | put mare pawer in his push. Aiter a half hour of practice, Beppa | advised them never to practice tricks wherl they were tired or/never to con. tinue until they were “4lf in” en | cireus acrabets could not do well when “pepless.” Before they started for home, he showed them some “combinations,” The first was a Roll-@ver and Snap-Us. | He ran to the mat—did a pretiy roll— then fell baek to a sitting position and without breaking the motion rolled back on to his neck and hands and | from there did a snap-up, and as soon as he landed did adother Roll-Over, w;@‘%hi v § ¢ well as I did? It is fine in some ways, Flrst of all, this is the first winter that Tve enjoyed real sliding, for winters hefore we didn't get but few slides he- cause there was no smow. But this winter!' Oh, my! for all kind of sports, snow banks snow forts, snow men, and slides. Y Kelly slides. : i And what T enfoved the most was | feeding some of those hungry birds. | Sister and I threw some crumbs our back porch. and in a short th some of the birds would' come and have a hearty meal. . One‘morning, to our great surprise, . Mr. Gentleman Bluefay came and had a-feast with the sparrows, an nansval thing for a bird of its kind, But little do I blame him, for. he is a heauty. We saw different kinds of them, and altheugh oyr mailman . couldn't et here on account of the stermy weather those birds gave us the s3me pleasure every day since. Hope all the Wida- Awakes will be kind to all the oo, hungry birds, - " ARCELTA DOYON, Age 10, Glasgo. Hungry Birds. I have been sick a week and could not go to school. I am sorry . it . is ‘snowing again,” becatise I cannot ®o out to slide down hill. You cught to see the little birds tnat come to gur door, almost dead for want of food, 1 give them lots of crumbs. After they eat they hop away to sqme warm place in the.wall and under fie barn. Then the next day they are back again for more good. 'EARL M. KINMOUTH, Age 6. Norwich, R. D. 6. ‘We have had some @ | me { finishing wit body perfectly ereet The | second was 3 Reund-Off followed im- i mediately by a roll over, |~ “Remembey,” said he, “the pretty | work in tumBling*eomes from the com- ; binations, ' Simple tricks. combined are | mare lnmmmg than a sifigle trick that is more diffcult, But each come bination must be smooth and there mut be no jerky breaks in the series tricks that yofi put together,” vou ever wonder what runa ABINGTON A \nilitary whist was held at Abing- ton hall Thursday evening for .the benefit of Wolf Den grange. A sleighing party planned to attend the mnsuue!a‘le dance at Hampton hali Saturday night, but ag the dance was postponed they held a dance at Abing- n hall. ?x teachers, meeting was held Thurs- ay at Center school. Marion Stone of Hartford spent the week end with her mother, Mrs. Hen- ry Stone. Mr. and Mrs. Stone return- ¢d Wednesday to their home here after a visit of six weeks with. the. latter's i sister in Hampton. Mrs. Newcomb with her children fs visiting her parenis in Worcester. Miss Green is able to be back at her school in Elliotts after two_ weeks' {il- ness, Relatives from New York spent the week_end with Mr. and Mrs. Jessup and family. Mr. and Mrs. Haines are entertain- -[ing his eister from Caiifornia; Charles Stoddard spent the week “Well, I'm -glad I'm living instead of 1285," said Laura's brother Tleb. “A peor guy back there didn't bave any kind of a chance.” G “What under the sun are you talking about, Bob?” said Laura. z “Leap Year.* Those people in Seot- land passed 3 kaw i I which” al- lowed a girl to ask a fellow to marry Ader and, if he refused, he was fined ‘one pound o less, according to his income.’ Later a similar law . ed in Urance and in Genoa and gqer- ence. “Well,” said Laura, “the poor women ouglit to have 2 chance sometime or other, How did this custom happen to {all an Leap Year?” “l gueés they thought a funny vear like Leap Year would be just the titne to pull off 2 ?:“e" stunt. Our ‘ances- tors certainly had a hard time getting the years to come out even, Romuls the first kins of Rome, had a ygpr of 304 days. The:setond Roman hg, added two months—January and Feb Tuary. January was mamed aiter the god lnus.‘ who v;‘esidzdrn;n the be- ginnings of everything. February avds named after the Latin verb 'Fel?ruan,' meaning to atone for your sins. Feb- rvuary, therefore was made the last month of the year. By khr end of 20 years the months were all bawled up with extra weeks and days and hours. So Julius Caesar got busy and began a new kind of year ing46 B. C, a year | which was called thz"‘}’ear of fusion, . “‘Cyesar made the. months of his year 31 an SO‘day: long, alternately. . Tllh;ha 3 year 366 days long and by EIOMLMY « [ ters te: -|ing and bleeding piles. . , |1owing’ question: / having their di _or indirect causa ld or cough., Kerr's| ' . ; i helpful.{Open to all except telephorfe depa Medicine knows rio' surer healingagent | ment heads, Aldermen and Cou inflamed 'mucous membranes of riose,’ throat and lung ~ passages. Thus While Linonine is relieving colds, coughs ‘and bronchitis it is also build- ing -up Al health, h i':n'fl- 60c and $1.20, ‘Women who suffer are invited to write for free Mh:ld?ful advice to T Treo tan 108 T 2o aiways haiphar.” end with his sister, Mrs. Medbiry, of Putnam. > Wolf Den grange held a regular meeting Feb, 25th, Reports were giv- en by E: E: Brown of farmers’ week at Hartford. A Linceln and Washington program was given, with patriotic singing. Notice was read of an exten- slon school to be held March 9, 10, 11 and 12 at Grange hall. LT * ' CLARK’S CORNERS E. C. Jewett of Brockton, spent the heliday in town, Mr. and Mrs. Bagbert of Williman- Suffield.—The Northern Baptist con. vention has allotted to SufMeld school $200,000 from the $100,000,000%fund to bel raised by the Cconvention, This money will be used partly for perma- nent endowment and partly for the erection of a ne¥ dormitary. 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