TflE COKNEK.
.>. > _ .
Mv Dear Chil- r jn :—It is
a real pleasure to me now to
have the Corner for so many
are taking an interest in it and
are doing what they can to
m^ke ike work a success. God
will bless the faithful little
workers for the willing gifts for
the Band. The dimes are count
ing up _ rapidly now, and our
prospects for doing more good
than ever are increasing.
Cordially yours,
Uncle Tangle.
Corapeake, N. C., Jan. 23, 1893.
Dear Uncle Tangle:—As my sisters
and brothers are going to write 1 have
asked iriarama to write me a little letter
too. I. wi{l tell you Old Santa Claus
came. to see me and remembered me
kindly he went to the Christmas tree
and. hd was so ugly he scared me so bad
V I didn’t, know what to do but after he
gave me two pretty dolls and a pretty
candy heart 1 did not feel so scared. He
had lon&^iray beard and carried a bell
in his bifofehe would run around and
kiss antLbbw his head so funny we all
had to dujfcli at him. Enclosed find half
dime, .gjlurill soon be five years old with
mn'ch twltto all.
Your little niece,
Grace Brinkley.
Dear Grace, I am glad old
Santa was good to you. I hope;
you will be a good girl—you
will try to be real good, won’t
you?—and that you will write
to the Corner often.
Corapeake, N. C., Jan. 23, 1894
Dear Uncle Tangle;—1 will try to
tell you and the cousins what a jolly
Christmas I had. I went to the Christ
mas tree at Franklin Grove and got sev
eral presen is but not so many as sister
did. Mama gave her a lovely gold ring
My aunt was with me Christmas and
we had a nice time we went to a lecture
at the Baptist church and she had to
play on the orgau as the organist was
not there. She is a little 0R, only 12
years old but she is very small. I go to
school and my teachers name is Miss Lil
lian Brinkley. I like her splendid. 1 was
glad to see the little Staleys had all come
to life again for I always love to read
their letters. I have a little baby broth
er named Staley Butler, he is very sweet
Please enclosed find five cents for the
Band with much love to you Aunt Mag
^ «»**»* mo VUUBIUB 1 am <V> IVCIj
Your little niece,
Minnie II. Brinklet.
Minnie, it is nice to get letters
for the Corner from the little
Brinkleys as well as the little
Staleys. So let us . hear from
you real often.
Corateake, N. C., Jan. 23, 1894.
Dear Uncle Tangle:—I will write to
you and the cousins once more as I have
not written in,a long time. 1 will try to
tell you and die cousins what a nice time
I haid Christmas Our Sonday school,
Franklin Grove, gave a Christmas tree
during the holidays. 1 got some very
pretty presents, Old Santa made his ap
pearance w hich added lots to the occa
sion, and the Baptist Sonday school
which I attended gave a treat so you see
we little folks had a good time. Both of
the schools have closed for a while and 1
certainly do hate it for 1 love to go to
Sonday school. I feel at a loss every
Sonday. I was glad to see the Corner
so bright last week and hope it may be so
all the year. I hope many of the cousins
will try to do as I have promised, to live
better than 1 ever have. I have always
heard it said if you be good New Years
day you will be good all the year and
that is what I tried to do. I hope you
and Aunt Maggie and all of the cousins
had a merry Christmas. 'I forgot to tell
you what a time I have had with my
fingers both of my thumbs sore and 1
never suffered so much pain in my life,
but I am glad to say they are well now.
With love to all.
Your niece,
Mattie Brinkley.
Mattie, I am glad that you
have written and that you have
resolved to be better than ever
before. Now, if you try as hard
to be good every day in the year
as on the first day you certainly
will be good all the time. May
God help you.
t'oRAPEAKE, N. C., Jan. 24, 1804.
Dear Uncle Tangle:—! will try to
write after being silent so long 1 expect
you think that 1 have forgotten yon and
the cousins Cut 1 have not. I vo to school
1 love my teacher, her name is Misa Lil
lian Brinkley, she is kind to us children.
1 will have to stop before long to help
papa work. I hate to stop for I love to
go. We have had lovely weather lately
it looks like spring I fear we will have a
jate spring, I had a nice time Christinas
I hope all the cousins did and you too
Uncle Tangle. Enclosed please find
half dime for the Band. I will closewith
love to all.
Your little nephew,.
Sammie Brinkley.
Yes, Sammie I did have a
nice Ghristmas. If you hate to
stop school as much as I did
when a boy before the end of the
term and go to work I know
how you feel. But then one
need not be put back so very
much. He can study whenever
an opportunity offers at home.
-
C i upkake, N. C.. Jan. 24,1804.
!) .. Uncle Tangle:-I will write to
1 > ■ i and the cousins what a nice
<• ' dad Christmas. My little cousin
,p nt 3 holidays with me, he lives near
.. /a., and we had a jolly time,
I, o .* our toy pistols end firing pop
i- .. ■ i we went to the Christmas tree
ui t -,>t a lowly china cup and saucer
n i m broke my saucer and I feel so
,,ui-y : II- it. 1 will be glad when our
„• .. i pens again for 1 love to go to
!. , school. 1 go to school and 1 am
I > it! J;-) learn as fast as I can. 1 was
i-f y - ry when Cousin Cary baa to go
h <• or we had such a big time. 1 hope
•i! f>»<- write often this year. Enclosed
ii ..i n t dime for the Band. With much
1 nv i. you and the cousins.
Your little nephew,
Alex Brinkley.
A t, my dear fellow, I am
.•l id' o hear from you again,
lo.'.c you will write often this
year. Am very sorry your Son
day school has closed. I wish
all Su :day schools could hold all
the year.
TaUt’HFULNESS.
ELEANOR HARLOWE, IN INDEPENDENT *
“Trutlifulqes,” wrote Katie Powers
in a confession album, opposite the ques
tion,‘‘What. is your favorite virtue?”
and her brother Ray, who stood looking
over her shoulder, was pleased to indorse
the answer in emphatic terms:
“Truthfulness it is, Katie; no doubt
about tiiat. In telling the truth you give
a sterling article every time, all wool and
a yard wide aud 35| inches thrown in.
In telling the truth you beat the record.
George Washington was nowhere in com
purson. W-hy, you”—
“Ray, dear, said Mrs. Powers, gently,
“do not tease your sister Truthfulness
is an admirable trait of character, and ]
am glad”—here Mrs. Powers made a
little movement of the throat, as tho
swallowing something, and the faint per
pendicuhir lines on her forhead deepen
ed slightly—" 1 am very glad Katie is
so truthful.” But when mischievous Ray
bounded to his mother’s side and whis
pered, with an arch look, “Mamma dear,
are you sure you are telling the truth
—tho whole truth, now?” Mrs Powers
smiled as her eyes met those of the ro
guish boy. “It is afault on the right
side, Ray,” shesaid, softly; and her
eyes turned again with a wistful look to
her daughter, as she sat at the table
writing answers to the questions in
the confession album. Katie’s dress be
trayed some carelessness. Here and
there a ^im had been made to do duty
instead of a hook or button, and from
her loosely braided hair some straggling
locks were hanging. She had a fair
complexion, large gray eyes and a full,
wide forhead. She was writing slowly,
and. considering carefully each answer,
for, with Katie, words were serious
things, and it would never occur to her
to set down her favorite color or her
■ preference for a certain hour ofthe day,
without weiging the matter carefully, to
be quite sure she was telling the exact
truth. But why should Katie’s truthful
ness excite brother’s ridicule and bring a
troubled look toiler mother’s gentle face?
It was aswrdly not that truth, in itself,
was distasteful to either that Katie’s
utterances often filled them with dismay;
but that Katie seemed sq unable to per
ceive ihe value of gentleness-, a kin ily
reticense, tact and forbearance, and seem
ed to think that sauvity and politeness
could not fail to be in league with false
hood.
Katie had been an enfant terrible,
with a precocious command of lan
guage, that enabled her, when scarcely
more than a baby, to refuse to kiss el
derly Miss Pierce, saying: “I won’t; ’oo
is so hidjns ” And now at fourteen, she
had proved herself capable of saying to
a proud young mother: “The baby
doesn’t looklike any one yet, Mrs Bur
ton: its features haven’t any particular
shape. Such little babies all look alike.”
Miss Ur.-imer, exhibiting her photos, was
crushed by the comment.-,, “They are
quite pretty; but they do not look like
you, because they have been touched so
much, and all the wrinkles taken
out.” The Rev. Mr. Barlow, venturing
to refer to a favorite passage in a recent
sermon, heaj-d from Katie that no one
| could understand all he said since he
lost his front teeth. Mrs Powers grew
weary of trying to heal the wounds in
flicted by Katie’s ruthless tongue, and of
hearing the unvarying self-satisfied re
ply; “It is the truth,” She felt a secret
sympathy with Ray when he gave Katie,
for one of her Christmas presents, a min
iature tomahawk with a string of scalps
attached, torn from the heads of dolls
and dabbed with red paint, while on the
the tomahawk was the awe-inspiring in
inscription: “Katie’s little hatchet—a
deadly weapon.”
It might he expected that Katie would
be unpopular in school, but this was not
the case. She was an excellent scholar,
thorough, accurate and thoughtful, and
this together with her independence, a
certain originality, and a freedom from
petty spite and jealousy, made her a
leader among her schoolmates, and won
the regard of her teachers. .Mrs, Powers
sometimes regretted this popularity, and
wished that she had more help from out
side criticism in repressing Katie’s faults
and developing the traits in which she
was so deficient; and Ray expressed the
same feeling in his odd boyish way:
“You get along very well now, Katie,”
he would say; “for here at home we are
used to you, and at school you are among
schoolgirls, and they are in a half savage
state, feeding on nuts and candy, and
scorning the restraints of civilization;
but ' it will Le far otherwise when
you are a young lady, and are in
troduced into society. There you
will meet with conventions, which
must be respected. There if things are
not what they seem every one pretends
they arc; and if you hurl disagreeable,
truths right and left, like so many hand
grenades. do you know what will become
of you? You’ll he mobbed, Katie, stain
by an infuriated mob of dowagers, dam
sels and dudes; and 1, your brother will
be unable to protect you!”
Whether this dire prophesy would
ever have been fulfilled must remain un
Ask Your Friends
\Y ho have taken Hood’s Saparilla what
they think of it, and the replies will be
positive in in its favor Simply what
Hood’s Sarsaparilla does, that tells
the story of its merit. One has been
cured of indigestion or dyspepsia,
another find its indispensible for sick
headache or billiousnness, while others
report remarkable cures of scrofula, ca
tarrh, rheumatism, salt rheum, etc.
«cd which
„ Katie's
A new scholar came to school, h> ^ P '
•ents just become residents o,
village. Sarah Ellis was cordially
:eived by her schoolmates, and before
week wau out she was quite at home m’
her surroundings, and exerted a strong
influence in the school. She was not a
pretty girl. She was thin and angular,and
her features were too sharp; butshe drees
Bd well, and had “style,” so the school
girls averred, and she was a quick, bright
scholar—rivaling Katie in that regard.—
a keen observer, and a fluent talker.
Her lively sallies were much relished by
the schoolgirls, tho her keen criticisms
and satire sometimes made them 'wince.
Katie, when appealed to for her opinion
of the newcomer, said she seemed rather
conceited, but she liked her well enough;
but it appeared not improbable that
some antagonism might soon arise, for;
as Ray said, “They’re exact opposites,
Katie's terribly blunt and Sarah’s fear
fully sharp.".
It was four o’clock one' Wednesday
ftcrnoon School had been dismissed
for nearly half an hour, but a group of
girls were still in the schoolroom, talking
in shrill tones that penetrated into the
adjoiniug room, where Katie was work
ing over a harrowing problem in algebra.
equal the whole estate, and let y equal
what the eldest son receives, tbeu as di
vided by 15, etc., all through the bewil
dering intricacies of a labyrinthine puz
zle, where x and y appeared and reappear
ed in protean forms, but always refusing
to emerge at last with the values attrib
uted to them by the figures following
the fateful “Au».”
Katie scowled, she clutched a lock of
hair and twisted it fiercely, she dug her
pencil into the paper, she groaned and
thumped her book; but no magic spell
was wrought by these incantations, and
x and y were as refractory as over. At
intervals fragments of the talk in the
schoolroom drifted to her ears, Sarah’s
voice usually the leading one; but tho
heard the words were unheeded, till,
suddenly, some one asked: “How do
you like Katie Powers, Sarah?” “1
don’t like her at all,” came the prompt
reply in Sarah’s incisive tones. “1 don’t
like a girl that can't be depended on,
and she can’t be at all. When Miss
Carter said to-day, ‘Katie is always re
liabe, ‘1 said to myself:, ‘Reliable, yes,
she is; for she’s able to lie, and that’s
liable, and then she’s ables to lie again,
and so she is reliable, for a fact.”
Katie’s heal was raised now, her
breath came quickly, and her cheeks
burned. Anything else—any other ac
cusation she could have borne calmly,
but lyiny! She, Katie Powers, who
loathed the very thought of deceit!
Down went her algebra, x and y were
forgotten, and in another moment Katie
won hi have rushed into the schoolroom
to c mfrout her accuser;' but her feelings
were relieved by hearing a chorus of
schoolgirls’ voices raised to affirm posi
lively that Sarah was entirely mistak
en, that .Katie Powers never failed to
speak the exact truth; but Sarah was
undaunted, and maintained her ground.
"un, yes. fine saia: 1 Know an
that, gir's, Katie Powers is ready en< ud>
to say hateful things, if that is wh it
you mean by telling the truth. 1 hoard
her, myself, tell Ida Glidden she was
sallow, and Eva Brown thither essay
was silly, and Clara Wells that she sang
out of tune. Such truth-telling as that
is easy enough for the teller But did
you hear her ans ver Miss Carter to day,
when she ask<-'' f<*r Katie’s ‘Tennyson,’
that she hadn’t brought it?”
‘‘Oh, yes, Sarah; but Katie forgot the
book.”
“Forgot!” echoed Sarah, with a de
risive laugh. “What right had she to
forget? She’d promised to bring it, and
Miss Carter dependcded on her, and
Katie didn’t keep her promise, and
hadn’t cared from the first whether she
kept it or not. It isn’t an unusual thing
with her, either She told Clara, yester
day, when it rained, she would wait for
her after school; but the minute school
was dismissed away went Katie with her
umbrella, and Clara had to go home in
the rain, and got a dreadful cold, for
trusting to that reliable gril; and all
Katie had to sav was ‘1 forgot.’ ”
“Well, Sarah,” said Ida Glidden,
“Katie does really forget, she is always
studying and thinking, and gets absent
minded, like—like-Sir Isaac Newton,
and such people.” *
“1 don’t doubt that’s the way Katie'
excuses it,” said Sarah; “but I tell you,
girls, when any one makes such a boast ‘
of telling the truth as she dpes, she
ought always to tell it, and not sneak
out of keeping her promises by pretend
ing to be sbsent-minded. She does not
try to be otherwise When she is think
ing about anything, and doesn't want
to be bothered, and any one asks her to
do anything she will say: ‘Yes, 1 will,’
and never give another thought to it. I
tell you it isn’t right. If Katie Powers
was such a lover of truth as she pretends
to be,she would hold a promise sacred,”
ended Sarah, in a tone of deep solem
nity.
The girls had done. Silence reigned
once more in the schoolroom, and Katie
might have resumed her search for the
values of x and y without fear of inter
ruption, but a deeper problem now oc
cupied her mind
Motionless she sat, her forgotten alge
bra lying on the floor beside her, her
brow knit, her unseeing eyes fixed on
the floor. Never in her life had Katie
felt as she did now;. Sarah’s keen arrows
had pierced the armor of self-satisfac
tion which had heretofore made her in
vulnerable. That Sarah was unjust,
that to confound thoughtlessness like
Katie’s with deliberate and willful de
sign to'deceive was illogical, as well as
uncharitable, Katie very clearly per
ceived ; but this she set aside as irrelev
ant. It was not Sarah's conduct she
was thinking of, hut her own; and ill
natured and illogical as Sarah’s flings
had been there was a gern of truth in
them that awoke Katie’s conscience.
“It is true,” said Katie, aloud —“it is
true, 1 do make promises and break
them, just as Sarah said; and I do not j
take much pains to remember; and 1
have thought it an evidence of superiori
ty to have a mind above little things, and
one of the things I have called little has
been keeping my word; and I haven’t
even seen that it was so. No wonder
Ray laugh i at me and Mamma reprbves
me. Oh, dear, I should think every
one would hate me!” and Katie, proud,
self-satisfied Katie, actually burst into
tears and wept bitterly over her own
A young man in Lowell, Mass troub
led for years with a constant succession
of boils on his neck, was completely cur
ed by taking only three bottles of Ayer’s
fjarsaparilla. Another result of the treat
ment greatly improved digestion with in
creased avoirdupois.
shortcomings, and, all unknown to her
0ne°u loveliest of virtues at that mo
meat began to bloom in her heart—th<
sweet virtue of humility.
But Katie was of a resolute disposi
tion.. oho did not weep long. The naa
was irrevocable, but the long yearToi
the future were before her, and as Kati<
took her away home se Was busied will
resolutions of amendment.
“1 will 4hfaik before I promise,” she
*• )° Md,wiU always say, ‘1
wi UfloK Hi remember;' and I wifi nol
Qeg.'ect little things, for what seems tc
me a trine may turn oat to be more im
portant than it appears; and I will try
not to twy things that are unkind, even
if they we true; and I will not be so
ready to conclude that others have no
regard for truth, when they do not
reach my standard: for they may be
self-deceived, as I have been. These
are good resolutions,” said Katie to her
self, as she trudged home, ‘’but—can I
keep them? Some of them seem opposed
to my very nature.” Katie stopped
short and thought a_moment. "I can
and then, in i
try,” she said, bravely; HH
whisper, hardly above her breath, she
uddeu: ‘‘lean pray for God’s help to
keep them.”
Ah, Katie, you have found the true
solution of your problem uowl That
hour of humiliation has not been in vain
since it has taught you tho lesson so
hard for self-complacency to learnl “Let
him that thinketh he standetb take beed
lest he fall.”
Any tendency to premature baldness
may be promptly checked by the use of
Ayer’s Hair Vigor. Don’t delay till the
scalp is bare and tho lmir-roots destroy
ed. If you would realize the best re
sults, begin at once with this invaluable
preparation.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
International Lesson for February 11. 11M
-God's Covenant with A brain-Gen. 171
1-9.
JSpeclally Arranged from Peloiibet’s N'curs.]
Golden Text—He bolteved in me Lord, and
He counted it to him for rlg'.Heousness.—Gen.
16:8.
Tn« Section or Histoky extends over
chaps. 1S-I7. the main incidents of which we
should bring into the lesson
Time—The separation of Abraham and Lot
was about B. C. 1918 The military expedition
to rescue Lot about Bra yours later, 1918 The
oonrenantof circumcision in 1897, when Abra
ham was ninety-nine years old, twenty-four
years after ho left Haran in 1931.
Place—Abraham and Lot lived near Bethel,
twelve miles north of Jerusalem, when Lot
separated and went into the plain near the
mouth of the Jordan. After that Abraham
made his home at Hebron, twenty miles south
of Jerusalem.
Introduction. —At the close of our last les
son Abraham had gone down into Egypt to es
cape a famine in Canaan, and fell into diffi
culties greater than famine. In the British
museum is an Egyptian papyrus, one of the
eldest writings in existence, containing the
story of “The Two Brothers," in which the
Pharaoh of the time is represented as fetching,
by means of military force, a beautiful woman
to his court and murdering her husband, as
Abraham feared to be murdered on account ot
Sarah. Abram soon returned to Canaan, cut
gradually Journeyed northward to, his old altar
between Bethel and Hal There is a period of
twenty-four years between the entrance into
Canaan and ths convenant of circumcision.
--r.xuwuf utonea,
The Separation of Abraham and
Lot.—Chap. 13. Abraham and Lot
had both beer, greatly prospered, and
were very rich. Dean Stanley describes
a Bedouin chief of the present day as
very like, except In character, these
chiefs of four thousand years ago.
A quarrel among their herdsmen,
originating, doubtless, in the increas
ing scarcity of herbage for the sub
sistence of their flocks, and in their
eagerness for the possession of the
tvells, or fountains of water, which In
that rocky, arid region have a value
unknown to the inhabitants of a coun
try like ours, made a separation neoea
sary for peace.
Abraham’s Brotherly Love.—(1) It
was a most unselfish act, renouncing
his own Interests in favor of his
friend. (2) It was a giving up of his
rights. Abraham had the first right to
the land. It was promised to him and
not to Lot. Then he was the elder
and the richer of the two. Lot had
accompanied him, not he Lot. (3) It
was an act of faith; for it seemed to be
giving up to others, for the sake of
peace, the land promised to himself.
Lot’s Unwise Choice.—Lot chose
the most beautiful and fertile tract of
land, in the valley near the mouth of
the Jordan at the head of the Dead sea,
in spite of the fact that it was under
the influence of the city of Sodom, the
most famed in the world for Its wlok
edness. He immediately “pitched his
tent toward Sodom.” He did not go
there all at once, but ere long (chap.
18) we find him dwelling in the city.
(1) Lot’s choice was selfish. He should
have been generous toward his uncle,
instead of greedily taking the best for
himself. (2) The choice was made in
the wrong spirit; for worldly advan
tage without regard to spiritual things.
(8) By this choice he left the company
of God’s people, lost the influence of
their daily lives, the atmosphere of
love and piety, (t) lie went into the
company of sinners. He chose It vol
untarily. One is safe with wicked men
so long as he is endeavoring to make
them good, but is never safe when he
chooses their company. Compare Dan
iel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar, Jo
seph in the court, of l’haraoh, mission
aries in any heathen land
An Act of Heroism.—Chap. 14. One
of the results of Lot's folly was >ihat
by being in bad company he was cap
tured together with the Sodomites and
carried away captive by a horde of
soldiers from the regions beyond the
Euphrates. As soon, as Abraham
1 i leaFnCd drthis fact, he armed 818 of
' his retainers, and with three confeder
ate friends went In pursuit He over
took the army in the vicinity of Dama*
cus, and by a stratagem and night at
: tack he gained a viotory over the much,
larger host, and rescued not only the
1 family and possessions of Lot, but also
those of Sodom, which had been
taken with him.
A Vision of Encouragement—Chap.
15. The fact that immediately after
this battle there came another vision
from God leads us \p think that probe
aly the father of the faithful may have
fallen lute a state of discouragement
(1) There was the natural reaction
after a brave had exciting deed, which
hed wrought Ms soul up to a high and
noble enthusiasm. To almost all there
oomes such a reaction, an Intensifica
tion of whatministers' call their “blue
Monday.” (8) The long,rapid, unwonted
journey produced physical and nervous
exhaustion, which acted upon Ms feel
ings like ,blpe glass, seen through
whioh even the most charming pros
peot and tlja ipost radiant sunlight
seem dark and gloomy. (3) He, as th
head of a small clan, hod incurred t'.
enmity of several of the great u,.J
rising powers of the east who liad
large armies atrtheir command. How
did he know that the defeated kings
might not soon return in overpower
ing force, and bring Bwift destruction
on him and ail his. (4) Disappointed
hopes. The promise, three times
given, had not yet been fulfilled,
though more than a dozen years had
elapsed since the first call. He 'had
no ohild, and yet he had been
promised descendants as the dust of
the earth for multitude. (5) As Kitto
says: “Lot, whose alienated heart he
had probably hoped to win by s<J great
a service, is still as far from him aa
ever. He still resides in Sodom.”
LESSONS FROM ABRAHAM AND LOT.
The man of peace, who gives up
rights rather than quarrel, is the man
who will do brave' and heroic deeds
when duty calls^ It probably waa
more heroic to give up to Lot than to
rescue him.
A worldly Christian can do little
good. After alT Lot’s years in Sodom
there were Hot ten good men in it.
When he did, warn them at last “they
jeered at him for a coward and laughed
at him for a foot”
Times of discouragement and trial of
faith come to the best of men. They
came to Abraham, to Elijah, to John
’ic. Baptist, the men of largest faith.
A Peculiar Case
Periodic Attack* of Neuralgia In
the Eyes.
«0.1. Hood a Co.. Lowell, Mass.; .'
“ I write to say that I have been a sufferer for
four years with neuralgia in the eyes. The pains
were rery severe at night, causing me to suffer
winter and summer alike. Sometimes a month
would lapse between spells, then 1 would be
Troubled Every Week, i
especially if I was up at night. I am a man of
regular habtta, 41 years of age, and employed
for the past seven years by Heath, Springs & Co.,
well-known merchants and bankers of this place
Hood's3^ Cures
and Camden. I bought a supply of Hood’s Sar
saparilla, used four bottles and believe I am.
cored.’' Vf. J. Long, Lancaster, South Carolina.
Hood's Pill* onre Constipation by restor
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