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THE HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH.
"VOL. 5.
Ths in Qml
gin number* 134,000. So says the
Christian index.
Carteravilie are going to build anew
chuck.
In Monroe county, Tennsssoe, thir
ty wild cat scalps pays the State
tax.
Her. Dr. Uicka, of Maoon, has giv
en the Albany Georgia Methodis
Church a handsome twelve hundred
pound belt
The lorty-five dwellings now in
proeeai ctfCeeicUon at EhitfcM leads
hecdo believe that she may yet be of
some account.
Misa Lou Dillon was the most
popular lady at the Brunswick Fair,
and received a handsome silver but
ter dish as her reward.
A young man in North Cnroliujj
who had been sick so titi 5
drank at onetime three pints of "fnfl
ter-milk and one pint of the juice of
dried peaches. He banded in his
checks. ’ T
A Texas (taper prints a list of 109
persons murdered by Indians in elev
en years in one county in that State.
Among .the killed were many women
and children.
Anthony Jenkins and James Mat
tox, are to Itc hung at Thomasville,
on July 11, for murdering two other
freed men.
• The steamship Ashland, of the New
York and Brunswick line, made her
first trip last week, arriving at Bntn
wick, Wednesday morning.
The wheat crop of North Georgia
is turning out badly. The Marietta
Journal reports it medium ; the Rome
Cornier below the average: and the
Cartersvillc Standard says it is well
nigh ruined. „
An old lady gave this as her idea
of a great man: “One who is care
ful of his clothes, don’t drink spirits,
can read the Bible without spelling
the words, and cat a cold dinner on a
wash-day with out grumbling.”
A party named T .cvel Best was re
oently cowMded by his mother-in
law at Jefferson Oregon.
Which calls to mind the verse of
genius,
: " Whatever woman was sot- to do,
She done tt withs sest;
Ho matter what her contract was,
She done h«r level best.”
Bread Abundant. —The Gainesville
(Fla.) New Era says:
“In a month or six weeks from
the present time many of our farmers
will oommcnce gathering corn. Not
withstanding this, corn can be pur
chased just now for fifty cents per
bushel. Corn has been very alnin
rtunt, and the fine oat crop has as
sisted msterily in keeping it at so
low a figure.”
In a certain town in New London
county, Conn., «an be found a lot
five graves, one in the con
tions on the latter read respectively,
after the name of the deceased, “ My
I. Wile,” “My H. Wife,” “My 111.
quent expression, “ Our Husbandry
■.tvln gstoue.
j <!-▼ <*-*- * • 7 ot
He Disoovkas the Tar* Some* of
ths Nil*.
If Dr. Livingstone returns from
this his third trip of exploration by
way of tbs north, as was bis purpose,
be will have traversed both the length
and breadth of Africa, and the world
may expect an account of his- discov
eries and adventures more interesting
and exciting than any that InWe
ever been printed. From the com mu.
nications we had from him in 1868,
it is evident that the chain of lakes
Jm discovered are the source of (he
Nwr JGr'tMs be «Rtt>to*»;rew*9
able confirmation of Ptolemy's theory
given nearly seventeen centuries ago,
respecting tbs rise of the Nile. The
(Doctor says the country in the vicls-
of these lskes is not s desert, as is
bmopulariy supposed, but abounds
Bi vegetation, and, in the language
■f tbs natives, is • land of “rivers
wlpofi rivers, and plains of fertility.”
IAHaffMV
I
HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1871.
Letter From Term.
;
W hit* Oak Crkek, \ !
Titus Coontt, Texas, ,
Msy 80th 1811. J |
I promts and to give you a skeebt
of my travel in northwestern Texas.
Well, I left my home on the morning
of May the 10th; we went on to Red
River county, or rather the s -uth
west corner of Red River county’,
though I am not very much impressed
with this county. Lamar county is
a good county beyouud a doubt; the
lauds are very rich indeed. Lamar
county is nearly all prairie land,
though a plenty of timber to supply
the wants es the people. The character
of the prairie land is black sticky,
and black sandy. The black sticky
land is considered the best, though the
black sandy is the most agr eable to
lire sn. Paris, the county town of
Lamar, is a beautifui little village;
has some 40 or 60 dry goods and
groceries, and seems to lie doing a
good I usiuess. Paris has two No. 1
hotels, and they seem to U: doing
well. We then passed on to - lloney
Grove, a small village in Fannin
county, a very handsome little place,
and it seemed to be a go-ahead place.
I am told that this is t'.c particular
spot were David Crocket saw honey
growing out oil the limbs of the forest
trees; and I am satisfied it to be true,
as I saw some bees on the limbs ol a
busb. We then passed on to Bon
ham, the county town of Fannin, olr
serving all on the road very fine
farms, a large portion of which is
planted in corn. But little cotton
plauted; some nice fields of wheat
and oats.
We then passed on from Boidiatu
to Sherman, the county town of
Grayson There wc found a great many
farms ; and Sherman is a place ofeon
siderable trade, has some 40 or 50
stores, and all seem to lie doing well;
also has two fine hotels, and 1 think
about three newspapers, two Demo
cratic and one Radical. 1 forgot to
say that Paris has three papers and
Bonham has two, all in full blast.
Well, go hack to tflicrniati and Gray
son county.' I do ii.it think that
Grayson county has as good land as
Lamar and Fannin, though Grayson
is a nicer county to live in, and a
pleasant one also. 1 liink the drink
ing water of Grayson is some better
than that of Lamar or Fannin, though
the people that have cisterns
have good water all the time.—
Whitcsborio, in Grayson county, near
he lower Cross Timbers. Wliitos
borro is a newly built town, and has
some 18 or 20 storehouses, and is driv
ing two botch and one or two livery
stables. Whitesborro is in one of
the finest kinds of countries. .My old
friend Tice Sullvon, lives in 2} miles
north of Whitesborro, in the Cross
Timbers, and seems to be doing well
and has plenty around him; has
good land and good water. 1 stop
ped with him some four days and
spent the time pleasantly. We then
took np our line of march to Gaines
ville, Cooke county ; there we made
quite a short stay ; don’t like Cooke
county. Cooke is above the lower
Cress Timbers. Poor so far as wc
saw. Cooke is a frontier county.
Some three weeks ago, in Cooke
county, the citizens had a fight wit
the Indians some 20 miles northwest
of Gainesville; killed one Indian and
captured some 60 or 10 horses—
From Gainesville we took the back
track. We come back to Sherman,
and Sherman by the way of Ken
tucky town, in Grayson county, a
nice little town and a good country
around it The lands in and around
Kentucky town is the black sticky
Isnd ; and we came in s winding di
rection to Bonlmm, in Fannin, and
trom Fannin to Lcdonia, a beautiful
little town in Faunin county sur
rounded by magnificent farms; there
seems to be fine schools at Ledonfa.
From we came into anew
county by the name of Delta county.
I suppose Delta was made of Hop
kins, Lamar and Fancy. Delta coun
ty lies in the shape of the letter A.,
it is a very rich county, and lands
Cheaper than in any of the others..
In Lamar county the price of lands
vary from 1 to 40 dollars per acre;
;□ Fannin, about the same, in Gray
son it ranges fium.3} to 50 dollars
per acre. Taking all things in con
sideration, the price of lands, the
quality of land, stock rang, and all
other things, I prefer Delta county to
opy that I have seen as yet. 1 can
buy good prairie tends in Delta coun
ty for $2 60 per acre, just ae good as I
want, and buy timber land for three
dollars per acre.
I am confident that there are peo
ple in Georgia, if they could see these
Texas lands, that they weuld come
to Texas certain and sure. If a man
was to use the same industry in Tex
that some of them do in Georgia,
they never could gather what they
would make; 1 mean in these West
ern counties, on the prairies; though
it is my advise to every man if be
wants to come to Texas to comeonhia
own hook just as I did; I came on my
own accord. Transportation is very
difficult in Texas, or at least in this
portion of it.
I will let you hear from me again
some day or other. Our entire par
ty is well at this writting.
Respectfully, yours,
W. R. Holi.on.
—Griffin Star.
What needier minks or Cnln’s
Wife.
Th ere is no record of Cain’s court
ship or wedding. However interest
ing to the parties themselves it is of
no interest to us, except upon the
supposition that the aceonnt in Gen
esis of the creation of Adam was de
signed to exclude the supposition
that any (icople nad lieen created.
If Adam and Eve were the sole prog
enitors of the race, Cain nnd Abel, it
is inferred, must have married their
own sisters—a connection which is
shocking to the sensibilities of the
whole race, at a subsequent stage of
development.
Rut many of the fathers of the
church denied that Adam and Eve
ami their children were the only peo
ple on the globe. They affirmed
that the text in Genesis very plainly
implies that there were other inhabi
tants besides Adam's family. They
allege that verse 14, chapter 4, of
Genesis plainly implies that the world
was already widely populated. For
when God declared that Cain should
In’ driven from his family, and made
a vagal>ond in the earth, Cain depre
cated the sentence and replied that
“every one that findeth me shall slay
me.” It was plainly not his family
connections that he feared, for lie de
sired not to l<e driven forth from
them. It was the people that he
should meet, when a wanderer in the
earth. Who, then, were the people
that Cain should fear to meet when
lie should have gone forth into the
eurtli ?
It is also reasoned by scholars
that the most natural mot lus 1 of sooth
ing his fears would have
been to tell him “ there are no other
(icople on the earth except your
father’s children.” Instead of that,
the Lord is represented as falling in
with Cain’s impression res(K‘cting the
(Mipulation of the world, and that He
set a mark on Cain lest any one find
ing him should slay him (Gen. iv:
15,) Still further, it is said that Cain,
separating himself from his kindred,
went to the land of Nod, where
“ lie built a city, and called the name
of the city after the name of his son
Enoch.” The father’s very pertinent
ly asked, Where did the people come
from that lived in the city 1 That
would lie an extraordinary state of
things that would have enabled Cain
to fill up a cltj’, however small, with
his own children 1 And it is inferred
therefore, there were other people in
the land beside the immediate pos
terity of Adam. If Adam was the
only progenitor, Cain must have
married his sister. If there were
lines of people, other Adams, as it
were, might have married into an
other stock.
We do knot express any judgment
in the matter. Wc give our corres
pondent opinions that have been held
in the early days of the church, but
with the statement that almost all
modern Christian writers have rejected
them.
But as the origin of races has in
our day assumed an important sci
entific developement, and as a very
many aide scientists held to a vari
ety of orignal stocks, it is interesting
to know that those views have been
held before, and upon supposed Bib
lical gronpds.
But are there no more questions
about Cain ? Does nobody wish to
know what the mark was which the
Lord affixed to Cain f Does no one
wish to know how Cain died ? Ques
tions must be scarce to leave such
points untouched. If Cain is to be
raised, be surely ought to be thor
oughly dealt with.
The Atlanta New Era says the or.
gsnizstion of Good Templars have
done much good, and continue to ad
vance the good smse gs fewperano#
rn that city.
From the Paltaka (Fla.) Herald.]
Attacked bjr alligator*.
A STEAMER SURROUNDED BV TIIE MON
STERS ON OCKLAWAHA RIVER.
A gentleman who has been stop
ping in our midst for some time,
gives an account of one of the most
terrible scenes ever recorded in the
annals of this country. While steam
ing up the placid waters of the Ock
lawalia river he witnessed a conflict
which made his hair stand on end*,
never to be forgotten. After round
ing Sackett's Point the stream wid
iens and deepens, and the water at
this bend always looked troubled and
blacks Suddenly the steamer en
countered a sea of alligators, flound
ering and splashing water in every
direction. Their bellowing shook the
foundation of the waters. The cap
tain says he never heard or witnessed
such a scene before and never wished
to a gain. Before the speed of the
little steamer could be checked they
found themselves in the midst of
these terrible monsters. To go bauk
or to go ahead was impossible. The
passengers endeavored to drive them
away by shooting, and the hands on
board beat them with handspikes,
yet they seemed more determined to
obstruct the passage of the boat.
The situation every moment be
came critical, and the crew and pas
sengers more and more exhausted,
and the destruction of the boat seem
ed inevitable. Already three colored
hands had been devoured by these
terrible monsters, and several others
wounded. Several planks were torn
from the hull, and the steamer was
with difficulty kept from sinking.
Just at this jieriod n source of relief
came. A huge scr|H:nt appeared,
making his way from the lakes—the
same, tt is supposed, that was seen at
“Devil’s Elbow” last fall. The alli
gators soon disa|i(>carod, following
the sea devil, or what ever yon may
call him, nnd such fighting nuver was
witnessed. At a point where the riv
er suddenly myrows, it soon became
blocked with dead alligators and the
water was red with blood. It is dif
ficult to account for the mtmlier and
sudden appearances of these animals,
but the latest theory may throw some
light upon the subject. It is believed
by many that there Is n large subter
raneous pnssnge of water between the
headwaters of the Ocklswaha and the
waters of the Okehoobec lake, mid
that these monsters have found their
way’ here in great numliers, nnd if
not soon exterminated, will olistriict
the navigation of the Ocklnwalm.
A h ave lady, wire of <’ol. W. A.
Moore, living near Iscadvale, Jeffer
son county, Tennessee, lias added an
other to the many instances of a
mother's devotion. She was at home,
alone Inst Friday, says the Press mid
Herald, when a negro woman came
running into the house, with the in
formation Mrs. Moore’s little sou,
three years old had fallen down the
well. Mrs. Moore ran to the well
and looked down into it just in
time to sec her child disnp|)car under
the water. Without a moment's hes
itation the brave lady grasped the
well-ro|N* and went down twenty-four
feet, to the surface of the wa'cr, and
grappled in its depths with her feet
for the child. She found him and
drew him with her feet to the top of
the water, then holding on to the
rope with one hand and, placing her
feet in the crevices of the rook wall,
she worked and labored over the babe
until he revived and her hu.duind
came to her rescue.— Walton Jour
nal.
Tke Big Wisconsin Pigeon
Boost.
The North-western papers are full
of talks aliout the big pigeon roost
up at Kilbourne City, Wisconsin
The breeding ground extends over
nine townships, and is from ten to
twelve miles wide. In that area ev
ery tree, and shrub is loaded with
bi ds, eighty and one hundred being
frequently seen on one pine tree.
They have caused great destruction
to the grain in the State. The
woods are slivc with wolves, foxes,
and other beasts who feed, night and
day, on tbe young that are being
hatched and thrust from the nests in
countless numbers by the parent
birds—hundreds of hunters shoot,
net, and knock over tbe grown ones,
and bands of Indians are busy in lay
ing in next winter’s supply of food,
bnt still there seems no sensible re
duction in the number.
Tbe seen.* in the night time is de
scribed as most remarkable. Innu
merable flocks get benighted while
off feeding, and, as they return, the
roar of their wings through the for
est is overwhelming. They pile up
on each other literally in heaps,
breaking tbe overburdened brambles,
and precipitating multitudes from
their perches upon tbe ground. Tbe
wild wings and tbe chattering
that fill tbe air as late as midnight,
is truly appalling, while the odor
arising from the countless dead and
drooping produoe • stench almost In
tolerable.
Gules Ajar.
Gone beyond the darksome river,
Only left us by the way.
Gone beyond the night# forever,
Only gone to endluts day.
Gone to meet the ange’ faces,
Where our lovely treasures art?
Gone awhile from our embraces—
Gone within tbe gntes ajar!
There's a sister, there’s a brother,
Where our lovely treasures are,
There’s a Hither, there’s a mqlfceb,
Gone witliiu the gates hJntl
One by one they go liefore us,
They arc filling mb’ the dew,
But ive know Wtv'W winching o'er us,
They the gttod, Inc fair, the true 1
Tlicv are waiting Tor ns, only,
W here no pain can ever tuur,
Little ones who left us lonely,
Watch us through the gates ajar!
Gone where every eye is tearless,
Only gone from earthly enre,
O, the waiting, sail and cheerless,
'Till we meet our loved ones there.
Sweet the rest from all our roving,
Land of light and hope afar;
Up ! our Father's lmnd so loving,
Sets the pearly gates ajar!
Can tills Story be True r
The following strange story appears
in Theodore Tilton’s Golden Age, of
New York, which journal vouches for
it:
A young lady of Philadelphia, ot
marked talents, of many accomplish
ments, and of high moral worth, and
lacking only two or three months of
her majority, Imd formed an engage
ment of imiri'ingc with u young man
to whom her mother did not wish to
see her allied. The mol her had long
Ik-cii upon her bed, confined with ill
ness, through which tbe duughtcr
Imd attended Iter with the most filial
devotion.
On learning the fact of the unshak’
ell resolution of this daughter, the
mother sprang from her lied, and,
clutching her child by the throat,
told her she would not leave the fOotn
alive; that she Wofild send her to
heaven and her lover to hell. Tile
|>oor li'ill-stranglcd girl, knowiii-'
that her mother always kept within
reach a six barreled revolver, passive
ly resigned herself a victim. She
was taken to an tip|>er room and
made a close prisoner.
At last midnight came, when, after
hours of suffering, she had fallen in
to a troubled sleep. Blic was waked
by her mother entering the room,
and ordered her to get up and dress
herself. A carriage was at the door,
and, with her father and another
man, she was taken out, and soon
found herself moving away to the
sound of carriage wheels.
Soon this was exchanged for the
rapid motion of the Stettin car, and
in the morning she found lu-rself a
prisoner in a hotel in New York. It
would seem that a phiu to put. her on
Isiard of n steamer sailing to Europe
did not succeed, and her next expe
rience was to find herself in the cars,
on her way bark to Phil:idclphin<
Here again she whs locked tip lor a
day or two. Again, at the midnight
hour, was she taken ftom her lx*d,
conducted to New York, nnd now
pul on iHiard a st .‘tuner—with no ex
planation whatever as to what was to
lie her destination.
She hud imagined she was to be
taken to Boston, and it was not until
she found lu-rself out upon the ocean
that she could have learned the fact
that she was on her way to Europe.
It is left to conjecture as to what
may bo the fate of this young Indy.
Whether she is to be immured in a
convent or a lunatic asylum is not
known to others, and is probably os
little know n to herself.
Immigration from Sweden.
Monticbi.eo, June 20, 1811.
Editor* Telegraph and Meuenger:
Mr. John Foss, the agent of the peo
ple of Jas|>er county, as stabs I in a
letter heretofore published in the
TELEUHAriI, reached Monlieello on
the 15th inst., bringing with him
twenty-one emigrants from .Sweden,
eleven males and ten females. A
more intelligent and healthy looking
lot of men and women it would In
difficult to find anywhere. These
emigrants have berm sent for by the
(icople of the county, and are all now
domiciled in their new homes.
Mr. Foss, who is himself a mechan
ic, i mined in tel) - went into the employ
ment of Messrs. Tnlmnge k Kcharji
mg, carriage makers, until the Ist of
Septcmlier next, when he pro|smcs to
return to Sweden with orders for a
large number of laborers to Is*
brought to this section of Georgia.
Mr. Foss, who is a young Swede of
intelligence and high character, feels
that in aiding to bring laborers to
the county, he is lienefiting his atbqr
ted country and also aiding the poor
of his own overerowrded land. No
risk is incurred of loss of money by
those ordering laborers through Mr.
Foss. Mr. Foss says he can secure
any numlicr of emigrants. The mon
ey required to be advanced is v** r *' t
•ta-y?-*- 11 ’ Tnfte,
chant of high. Cnaracter, and •
deposited in bank in ” •“J I 4 *™
be drawn when *' - view York, to
there. Mr ' the emigrants arsrvo
ticelle _ fr’oss will remain at Mou
11*' * *b<-re CW desiring to secw«
I “OP through his
nun or consult v*y tetter 7'
NO. 26
HAWKINSVILLE DISPATC
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
OT »ib*onption s2 00 a I sap, is adtamtt
Mites and Buies.
fff MVtrtisement# fl 00 per square far
the first IwUrttm, and 75 rents for esc I
subWquVht Insertion. (A square is th' -
SjM’rt of one Inch In depth of flic column'
Irrespective of the number of lines.)
contract advertising.
K 1 m (IF m] ¥ nT| 6m ’ iTf’
I square... *:i $ 5 $ 7 *lO $ ]i
8 “ ... 0 8 11 15 8<
3 “ ... 7 11 15 20
4 “ ... 9 14 18 25 „■
t column.. 10 10 20 25 4
i ’’ .. 15 20 20 00 7
II " .. 80 80 40 75 18.
A liberal deduction will Ik- mads will
those who advertise by ibe year.
The money for advertisements is due on
the first insertion.
Tribute# of Respect, It.-solutions by Soci
eties, Obituaries, etc., exceeding six lines,
to lie charged as transient advertising
tjuliscriliers wishing l heir paper# change. ’
from one post-office lo another, must state
the name of the |KMt-ntfire from which the
wish it changed, ns well as that lo whirl
they wish it sent
I.KUAI. ADVERTISING.,
Ordinary’s—Citations for Letters
of Administration, by Adniinislra
tors, Executor#, Guardians, Ac....$ S 6
Application for Letters of Dismis
sion from Administration 4 Ou
Application for Indtcrs of Dismis
sion from Guardianship 5 fin
Application for leave to sell Land 4 IK’
Notice to Debtors and Creditors 5 fill
dales of pernonnl or |ivrislinlilc
property, per sunn re 1 fiti
Sales ol Lands, per square. ..V... B 50
Niieiukk's—Per levy 3 50
Mortgage sales, ten line# or less, . 6 o*'
Tux Collector's sales, per square, 5 o*'
CLeuk's—Foreclosure of Mortga
ges and other Monthly advertise
ments, *1 per square of one ineli for
each insertion.
Announcing County Cntiituiatrs.. 8 (H>
Annoiineittg District Candidates,. 13 On
For a man mhertising hi# wife, in
advance 20 0"
dales of Isttld, by Administrator .
Executor# or Guardians, lire required In
law to be held on the first Tuesday in tli.
month, between lip- hour#of ten tu the for.
noon nnd three ill the afternoon, at 111.
Court-house In the eounty in wliirh the
projH'rty is situaiial.
Notice of these sales must lie given in a
public gazette 40 days pretffnlS to the dny‘
of sale.
Notice for the aide of personal property
must lie given hi like luuiiiiCf, 10 a.tys pre
vious to sale day.
Notice to debtor* and creditor! nf an e*
late must also la- published It) .lays.
Notice that application will be made t>>
tlio Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land
must lie published for lour weeks.
Citation# on letters < f -nifmlul-trntlntt
Gunrdhtnahip, 4te„ fitirl. lut published »>
days; for dismission from ndmiid-lrutiun
monthly three mouths; for dismissi.th frtini
Guardianship, 40 days.
Rules tor the foreclosure of Mortgages
must lie published monthly, four months t
for cstablishlffg lost paper*, for Ilia tub
Jpa.-c of three months, for compelling tillc
from Executors or Administrators, where
bond liu# been given by the deceased, tilt
frill space of three inonllis.
KtieriH’t saliw must lie published for font
weeks.
Publications will always la- continue. 1
anoolding to these, flic legal requirements
unless otherwise ordered. #
L. A. HALL,
Attorney & Counsellor at Law,
EASTMAN, GEORGIA.
WILL give prompt attention to aK
business entrusted to tils care,
murlfr ts
A. C. PATE,
ATTORNMY AT LAW,
HAWKINSVILLE. OA.
WILL practice in the counties ot Pii
laski, Houston, Dooly, Wilcox, Tel
fair, Irwin, Laurens and Dodge, »Dd, be
■|>crint contract, In any Court lu the Stab
mayfifi-tf
L. C. RYAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IIAWKINHVILMC, OA.
WILL practice In the counties of fit
hc-ki, Houston, Dooly, Wilcox, Tel
fair, Laurens and Dooge, and by special
contract, in anv Court in the State.
OFFICE—Over J u .lelka £ Brother's
store, in old hotel building,
jnnel-tf
Road Notice-
Ordinary's Office, Pulaski Cos., 1
May 2:1, 1871 {
Tbe Road Comtnlsafoners appointed to
■nark out nnd report on anew lio.nl, lend
ing from reflow ship so Friendship
Churches on a direct line, and Inter,
seel with the Ahlinillc nr.d Troupvilh-
Road, have returned their reiHirt to this
(Alice, and it will be passed on (lie first
Monday in July next.
Given tinder my band nnd official signs
tore, Uiis May 22, Hf?l.
J. J. SPARROW,.
may 25-Sod Ordinary.
ICE I !C£l ICE!
LEM.OnSi LEMONS!
During the season, 1 will keep on hand
laemreivre *
may lß-ftwv At the Old Bland
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