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A SPELLING LESSON.
Tfec Word Scissors Can Be Knill Ip
in .M3S.SM) Different Ways.
And Probably That Isn't All Bearing
of This on the Propositions for Philo
logical Reform Plain English is
Good Enough.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
tVe hour a great deal about the irregu
laritics ami iikousistencie.-. of the English
languag - Every now and then some
philov-yi't trains the artillery of crltiesim
titxm the grand old tongue, which, even
in its infancy, was good enough for
Shakespeare, and which now, after the
lapse of several centuries, presents hi
man the most perfect and polished medi
um of thought and expression existing,
fortunately a language is not easily dison
certed or shunted off its track To all
such attacks our sturdy vernacular has
had one defiant challenge:
t ome one came nil
Tin- rock -hull tty
From its 11 rm base
As -non as I.
It is a remarkable feature connected with
the various spelling reform movements
that they l ave all failed, even that fath
ered by' the distinguished phonoiogist,
Alexander Ellis, and indorsed by the
‘leaders of linguistic science—the Palaeo
type—went the way of all such schemes,
and was finally repudiated by its origina
tor himself.
TUE FROFI.2 DO THE REFORMING.
The fact is, when the people find that a
language needs reforming, they reform it
themselves, little heeding the dictums of
learned societies iu the matter. The
English language suits the English-speak
ing races: it is adapted to all the require
ments of the most highly cultivated: in
the words of Mark Twain, it is “a lan
guage that can stand the strain when you
want to say something really worth say
ing:'’ and the great mass of people object
to paying a doctor bill where there is no
disease. That is v.hy spelling reform has
not succeeded.
Everyone admits that the English lan
guage contains irregularities and incon
sistencies. So does every other language.
So does the constitution of the vast body
of human society. Nothing is free from
them; our laws,’our theology, our medi
cine, all an 1 crude and imperfect. But
violent revolutionary measures are not
admissable. Improvements must be made
slowly. The laws of ‘ natural selection
and the survival of the fittest" operates
here as in the rest of nature's vast do
main.
WHAT A WORD RE ALT. Y IS.
The great error of the spelling reform
ers lies in the assumption that spelling is
a logical process. It is really an exer
cise of the memory. A word is appre
hended as a whole, not as a collection of
individual joints. When we write a
word we do not consider it as composed
of loiters; is it to us simply the picture of
an idea, and the accuracy of our spelling
depends upon the vividness of the image
in our memory. It is an axiom in psy
chology that the simpler faculties attain
n more perfect development than the
complex. It is reasonable to suppose that
in cases when 1 the basal faculty of memo
ry is so poorly developed that the subject
sjlls eat with a k. the judgment can
have reached that stage of perfection
which is required to carry on the pro
cesses of inductive and deductive reason
ing in a satisfactory manner?
6.000 WAYS TO SFELL A WORD.
To illustrate the argument take the
word scissors, which Alexander Ellis has
already made the subject of computation.
Ellis figured out that this word could he
spelled about 6,000 different ways; but lie
admitted only such signs for the sounds
of the word as were consistent with the
etymological analogy. But what does
that blockhead, the spelling reformer's
client, who cannot recall the way to spell
scissors. anow about etymological anal
ogy? see in how many ways he
would spell one word according to the
ordinary brand of analogy on tap iu his
brain-pan seven days in the week, Sun
day included.
The word scissors contains six element
ary sounds, to wit:
S-I-Z—E—K—S.
The first and the last are the simple
sounds of "s.” The second is short, “i,”
as heard in “thin.'’ The third is the
simplesound of "z.” The fourth is the
obscure sound of “e,” the will o’ the wisp
of the English language. The fifth is
the simple sound of “r,”
LETTERS OF SIMILAR SOUND.
The first and last sounds ma.v be repre
sented by any of the following letters and
combinations, as will be soen from the
example given:
By sc. as in scissors.
By c. as in circle.
By ce, as in efface.
By ps. as in nsalm.
By s, as in single.
By see, as in coalesce.
By sch, as in schism.
By se. as in cause.
By ss, as in mass.
By st. as in listen.
By sth, as in isthmus.
By sw. as in sword.
This gives a sum total of twelve ways
by which the sound of s may be repre
sented .
The socoud sound, that of short “i,”
may he expressed as follows:
By i, as in scissors.
By ai, as in captain.
By seas in .Bean
By e. as in English.
By ea. as in guinea.
By ee. as in been.
B.v ei, as in surfeit.
By ey, as in monkey.
By ia. as in parliament.
B.v ie. as in seive.
By o. as in women.
By oe, oenanthic.
By oi. as in tortoise.
By ois. as in chamois.
By u. as in busy.
By ui, as in guinea.
By uy. as in plaguy.
By ,v. as in abyss.
This yields a sum total of nineteen sym
bols which are used to express the round
of short -i.”
The third sound, that of simple ‘‘z,”
may be expressed as follows:
By ss, as in scissors.
By c, as in suf.leing.
B.v ce. as in sacrifice.
By cz. as in czar.
By s, as in is.
By se, its in Chinese.
By x, as in xebec.
B.v z, as in zodiac.
By ze, as in adze.
By zz, as in fuzz.
Thus • /." may be represented in ten dif
ferent ways.
The obscure sound of “e” may be ex
pressed as follows:
B.v o. as in scissors.
By a. as in billiards.
By se. as in dia-resis.
By ai. as in murrain.
B.v e, as in banner.
B.v ea, as in sergeant.
Bv ei, as in heifer.
By eo. as in leopard.
By eou. as in righteous.
By i‘u. as in grandeur.
By i, as in sir.
By ia, as in special.
By io, as in complexion.
By oi, as in avoirdupois.
B.v ou. as in journal.
By u. as in turn.
By ue. as in guess.
By ui, as in circuit.
B.v v, as in myrtle.
This gives a sum total of 19.
The fifth sound, simply r, may be repre
sented as follows: •
By r as in scissors
By re. as in verdure.
By rh. as in rheum.
By rr, as in burr
By rre as in simarre.
By rrh. as in myrrh.
By wr. as in wrong.
1 fere is a sum total o' seven ways to
represent this sound. The sixth sound,
that of • s." we have already considered.
A SIMPLE MATIEKOF MATIIEMATP -
To find the number of combinations
joasible from this variety of symbols ex
pressing the same jnds we ur:*t find
the product of l“xl9xl!txl9xTxl2. This
yields a grand total of a.ias.vMi wavs in
which the word may be spelt- according
to simple analogy.
Still we are nut aware that any con
siderable percentage of )>eople that ever
attended school have any difficulty In
sjieliing the word in the single way which
is correct. No complaints are heard ex
cept from the spelling reformers, philo
logical anarchists wb ■ want to equalize
all the differences between words as their
political prototypes strive to do among
men.
ltichard Grant White, in his "Every-
Day English,” lias shown conclusively
how ridiculous, how puerile, the argu
ments are which the phonetic reformers
parade. Every man, woman and child
who has heard the "reformer’s" side,
should read this scathilig summary of the
conservative. No arguments more eon
elusive have ever been presented in the
discussion of this question.
TOM GOULD S PLAY.
y n opals of ‘‘T’rowed Down." in
Which the Dive Keeper Will Shine.
From the New York Herald.
In consequence of the announcement
made in the Herald on Thursday that
•tlr. Thomas Gould had determined to be
come an actor, scores of dramatists, thes
pians and theatrical managers have ap
peared at the Ladies' and Gents' Utopia
to offer their services to the new star.
Mr. Gould has meantime conscientiously
devoted himself to the perusal of a dozen
or more plays that have been submitted
to him, and has finally decided to appear
in a tenderloin society drama called
“Throwed Down,” which was offered to
him yesterday hy one of the leading play
wrights on Twenty-eighth street.
The first scene of this play represents
Sixth avenue, between Twenty-third and
Thirty-fourth streets. A handsomely
dressed lady appears on the scene, and,
lifting a heavy veil, discloses a face that
is strangely beautiful. She glances has
tily about her and says: “And this is
Sixth avenue! How different it is from
Fifth avenue, where stands rue father’s
princely mansion! All! if I could only see
that handsome gent who saved me life in
the park the other day! He disappeared
without waiting to be thanked, and al
though T have rnado innumerable in
quiries I can learn nothing of him except
that he has a great pull I knew that
when lie stopped me horse. This is his
place of business. I will wait hero a mo
ment in the hope of seeing him.”
THE HERO APPEARS.
The hero now emerges from his dive,
takes off his high hat. wipes his forehead
and says: "How strangely silent the Ten
derloin is to-night! I know by the toll
ing of the clocks that it is precisely eigh
teen minutes past twelve, and yet.l can
hear nothing but the rumble of street
cars, the sullen roar of the elevated road,
the exulting shout of the night hawk as
he falls upon his prey, the mournful tap
ping of the policeman's club on the feet
of him who would fain slumber on the
sidewalk, the merry singing of the band
of college students wending their way
down Thirty-first street, and the sharp
clang of the hell on the swift-rolling am
balance. Save for these few sounds all
is silent as tho grave, and i fear me that
■UMjy,are trying to run this city like a
Sunday school. But stay! I hear a deep
sigh as if someone were in pain. It comes
from that poor girl who is standing on
the sidewalk gazing with a far-away look
in her eves through the plate glass win
dows of my popular establishment, the
Duffer Dive Inu.”
HIGHLY EMOTIONAL PASSAGES.
Having said this, he approaches a young
girl in neat and gaudy attire, who is
standing directly in front of the big win
dow, and says to her: “M,v poor girl, you
seem to be in trouble. Have you no place
to go to to-night?”
To which the young girl makes answer:
"Alas! I have now no pluco in which to
si>end my evenings. I used to hustle
tables in your dive—that was many noons
ago, before you had the consumption and
were thought to be dying—but I incurred
tho enmity of the bouncer and he drove
me forth, never to return. Do you not
remember me? 1 was called Susan Side
walk in those glad days.’,
The Hero—What! You here, Susan,
and at this hour? Two years ago you
were the blithest maiden that ever asked
a duffer to open another bottle. I remem
ber now the story of your fall.
His brow darkens and his face assumes
a stern expression. Susan Sidewalk
buries her head in her hands as if over
come with shame and exclaims: “Yes,
I came in ono night with a gentleman
friend and let him buy beer when he
should have opened wine. But God
knows I have repented long since.”
“You throweu me down, Susan,” ex
claimed Mr. Gould, and then adds magna
nimously: "But never mind: 1 will for
give you. Come back and hustle tables
again as you did in tho days gone by.”
TIIS PLOT BEGINS TO UNFOLD.
He leads her into the dive and the beau
tifully veiled stranger comes forward and
exclaims: “He must and shall be mine,
the newspapers are right. The dive
keeper is the noblest work of Cod.”
The second scene shows the interior of
the Duffer Dive Inn on a Saturday night,
Utopian ladies and gents to the number of
three score are seated at little tables,
where they are harassed bv a corps of
waiters of unexampled ferocity aud' vig
ilance. It is learned from the conversa
tion of the Utopians that a mysterious
veiled lady has become a regular habi
tue of the place and is exhibiting extra
ordinary skill in the retinea Tenderloin
art of “working jays.” During this con
versation Susan Sidewalk enters in com
pany with a well dressed young man,
whose face indicates the last degree of
verdancy and who is known among his
friends in Cambridge as “the very devil
of a fellow.” aud in the Tenderloin pre
cinct as “a dead easy mark.” He has ac
quired, at some expense to his father, the
nickname of “Wine Opening George,”
but to Susan Sidewalk he is known sim
ply as “Popper.” He calls for cham
pagne and while the waiter is putting a
little fresh bicarbonate of soda in the bot
tle, Mr. Gould himself appears upon the
scene and the blind professor bounds
away at the piano while the waiters wait
with renewed ferocity.
The Veiled Stranger (soliloquizing)
What a charming place this is and how
much happier 1 am in this delightful at
mosphere of freedom than when sur
rounded by the trammels aud restrictions
of conventional society! Ah ! here comes
m.v hero with the wonderful pull. I
often think how beautiful he would look
upon the stage and wonder why it is he
does not become an actor.
Mr. Gould (seating himself at table) —
Well, shall we have a little drink
The veiled stranger assents and says,
as the glasses are tilled: “How would
you like to become an actor, Mr. Gould,
and play in a society drama
Mr. Gould —There might be something
in it!
THE HERO'S TRIALS.
In the third act, which also takes place
in the Duffer Dive Inn. Detective Hocks
enters in the midst of the evening's revels
and informs the proprietor that the “old
man” expects hear from him right away.
The latter declares that business has
THE MORXIXG NEWS TRADE REVIEW: SEPTEMBER isMT
been so had and the agent* of the soei
etie- with the long names so grasping
that it ia impossible for him to "give up’’
any more. Detective Rocks then departs
with the significant observation that
this is an irou sgv.and everybody has got
to produce '
The hero seats himself at a small table
and seems overcome with grief. "They'll
throw me down!” he mutters in tones of
bitterness.
Yes," exclaims Susan Sidewalk, sud
denly api>earing before him. "they’ll
throw you down same as you throwed my
popper down when his wad was gone. He
will never come back again. He is lost to
me forever, and 1 hear that he is blowing
in his dust .at a joint on the other side of
the town. It was I who put the societies'
agents onto you! It was 1 who told Rocks
he could work you for another hundred
bones a month! It was 1"
••Ingrate! - ’ screams the divekeeper.
starting to his feet, but with a hoarse
yell of defiance Kns.an Sidewalk eludes
liis grasp and disappears into the night.
AN EFFECTIVE CLIMAX.
At this moment the mysterious stranger
glides softly into the room, places her
hand gently on the divekee|>er's shoulder
and says in soft, persuasive tones: “Come
with me, my own. Beautiful as this
place is anti noble as your life is accord
ing to the contemporaneous press, there
are otner spheres in which you might
shine. The stage is a refuge for the
erring and for the cranks as well. Let
us come together and see what we can do
for the American stage. Just appear as
yourself, the noblest man on Sixth
avenue, and you will give knockout drops
to dramatic art and put all your rivals to
sleep in the first round.”
And tilled with this ioft.v purpose the
veiled beauty and the proprietor—or,
rather, manager—of the Duffer Dive Inn
turn their hacks on the garish splendors
of a sporting life on Sixth avenue and
bend their steps toward the actors of
Twenty-eighth street, and next season
either art or Mr. Tom Gould will be
actually "throwed down.”
OMEN OF THE FLAGEOLET.
Woe to the Play Whose First Night
Sees That Instrument in the Orches
tra—Actors’Faith in Hoodoos, Mas
cots, and Spirits.
From the New York Sun.
“That play can never succeed,” said an
old time manager, in an up town cafe,
several nights ago. “It is a pity, too, for
it’s a good play and a good company. I
wish that I had not seen tho dress re
hearsal. ”
•You’re getting old, colonel, and you
only see success in the past,” said a lead
ing man.
"That is where you are wrong,” re
plied the manager. “I know a good
thing when I see it, and this play is a
good thing, but it began with a hoodoo,
and it will surely' fail.”
"Hoodoos are tommy rot! There is no
sue h thing as a hoodoo that can ham any
play.”
Around the table were half a dozen
actors and men interested in theatrical
a flairs. Few men in New York know
more about the history of the American
stage for the past few years than the
manager who spoke. Booth, Jefferson,
Barrett and Irving have all claimed him
as their friend, and his reminiscences of
the stage make him the center figure in
any after-the-play gathering of actors.
"Now. colonel.” said the leading man
when the glasses had been filled, “you
were talking about hoodoos on the stage.
1 don’t believe in them. When a plav is a
failure it is easy to explain it by saying it
had a hoodoo.”
“Well,” said, the colonel, “actors, the
world over, are a superstitious lot. Even
Henry Irving brought his horseshoe to this
country when he first came here. I didn’t
believe in hoodoos and that sort of thing
when I was young. I don’t like to ac
cept them now, but I am forced to by ex
perience.
“Have you ever known the yellow
flageolet to fail iu wrecking a play’? Now,
you laugh at that. I think that, as a
rule, there is no harm in a yellow flageolet
in itself, but there is a peculiar fatality
in the circumstances that bring it into a
theater orchestra at a dress rehearsal or
on an opening night. There was a yellow
flageolet in the orchostra to-day, and that
is why I say that the piece is doomed.
Yes, that’s right; laugh if you will, but
my experience is a long one. and I think
lam a sane man. Any old manager in
this country will tell you that a yellow
flageolet is sure to wreck any company.
Circus men won’t have them in their
bands. I could tell you many incidents to
illustrate what I say. Perhaps you re
member that when ‘The Junior Partner’
was put on. every one said it was going to
be a big success. Everything pointed
that way. but it opened with a yellow
flageolet in the orchestra, and then Mrs.
McKee Rankin’s troubles began. That
is a fact. 1 have known stage managers,
ami sensible men, too, who would rc
fuso to ring up the curtain until the yel
low flageolet was driven out of the or
chestra. ’
“That is just as absurd.’’ said the light
comedy man, “as tbe cheese that the
Italian ballet girls in the ‘Crystal Slip
per’ kept in t heir dressing rooms. 1 knew
the effect of that mascot, for I was in the
company. Every time I went on the stage
or near the dressing rooms I thought of
Hunters Point and the gas-liouse district.
Couldn’t persuade those girls to throw
awoy this cheese. They believed that as
long as they kept it they would be sure of
an engagement. The cheese had been
given to them in Italy to protect them
from harm. Each girl had a Small piece
of it. louil cheese it was too, rolled up in
paper in her trunk. To be sure of protec
tion they took it to their dressing rooms.
Eddie Pay nearly choked because of the
smell of that cheese. Eddie never did
like comic opera, and that cheese settled
him. I could only show them what f
could do in Daly's company,’ he would
say. ‘and escape front this horrible
Italian cheese. I’nt too delicate for this
work, anyway. Just wait until I get into
the 'legit" and wear swallow-tails and
smoke cigarettes on the stage and pull
my cuffs.’ Now, cononel, speaking about
hoodoos,that is my experience. with aimas
cot.
“Well," replied the colonel, “Jhe Ital
ians are naturally superstitious. I know
an opera house in Italy that was built
several years ago, and, of course, there
was in it a seat numbered 13. It was one
of the best seats in the house, and even
on crowded first nights it was always va
cant. It was a dead loss. The manager
painted out the number 13 and numbered
it 12 A, and now the seat is popular.”
“For some reason,” said the leading
man, “actors are naturally superstitious.
Perhaps it is because their life is one of
many ventures, and sometimes the insig
nificant thing may load to failure or suc
cess. Probably a good deal of the super
stition is assumed. Most people have a
dash of that in them, whether they will
admit it or not. Do you remember when
Rose Coghlan inajje her hit at Wallack’s
in ‘Diplomacy’ as the Countess Zickaf As
you remember, the plot of this play
hangs on the perfume that the countess
uses. Rose Coghlan used a certain per
fume that night, and she made a big hit.
I have heard that she always uses this
perfume on an opening uight low, no
matter what the play may be. Of course,
it is only a woman's fancy, and yet 1 have
heard that Miss Coghlan would rather
lose her wardrobe than her perfume.
Patti also has a similar fad. Wheu she
made her first great hit she wore a pair
of shoes of a juvuliar pattern. Patti
wears in her concerts now shoes made on
t his identical last and of the same pat
tern. She believes that they bring her
luck, and apparently they have done so.
Yes. stage folks are a bit superstitious.
You probably have allseen would.be fun
ny men thrown off a stage at rehearsal
for quoting some of the hoodoo passages
in ‘Macbeth.’ ”
There is very- little or no connection,”
said Itu* colonel. ‘between these little
foible* and (pi ritual ism, but the conver
sation suggests it Vo would ail proba
bly l>e surprised to know the number of
well known actors who !>elievo in spiritu
alism. Billy Florence was a spiritualist,
although few people knew it 1, knew
him as intimately as any one. and he has
often talked about h:sbelief tome. Bart
ley Campbell was another, and so Is Mc-
Vieker of Chicago Ada Isaacs Menken
is now simply a name to you youngsters.
She was a clever woman, as well as a
very beautiful woman. The elder Dumas
and many other men of letters were
among her friends She wrote two vol
umes of verse, which, she claimed, were
inspired by,the spirits. Tljese verses
consisted of musical lines of varying
length and they attracted some attention.
I'm spiritualist, but I am a firm be
liever in hoodoos and occasionally in mas
cots. Let's have a nightcap.”
PRAYED TO KEEP HIS CLOTHES.
A New York Street Waif Had Their
Preservation of Mind.
From the New York Herald.
No i-lass of the population of New York
come nearer to the poor than the mem
bers of the Slum Brigade, as it is called,
of the Salvation Army. The Slum Sisters
enter the homes of the unfortunates, and
minister, either spiritually or materially,
to sick and p oor alike.
It is a wonderful work which they per
form for the cause of Christianity. Im
bued with an enthusiasm compared to
which the members of the other sects
seem but half-hearted, the Slum Sisters
do not hesi’ate to wash ami dress tho
babies, cook the meal for the mother or
attend to the family- washing and ironing.
The necessity of the work only governs
its performance.
In the barracks in which the noble
Slum Sisters live are beds and cots for
homeless women and children. Many
pathetic stories could be written about
the chance occupants of these temporary
resting places, but to none probably at
taches more human interest than tho case
of a little waif to whom the attention of
Mrs. Ballington Booth was recently
called.
The child was a boy scarcely more than
lor 5 years old. liis parents had evi
dently- been sent to the island or had
drifted away somewhere. When found
crouched in a corner of a hallway one
chilly night in March he was but half
clad and was numbed with exposure to
the cold.
Taken into tho barracks, the waif was
washed and dressed in clean clothes,
to armed and fed. He was delighted with
attention that he received, and par
ticularly with his garments—so much so
that when one of the sisters attempted to
undress him for bed he cried, under the
belief that he was about to be perma
nently deprived of his new apparel.
This was very apparent when the sister
attempted to teach him the words of the
simple prayer, “Now 1 lay me down to
sleep.”
Kneeling beside him at the bedside the
sister said: “Say these words after mb,
‘Now 1 lay me down to sleep.’ ”
Peeping between his fingers the little
fellow lisped, “Now I lay' me down to
sleep.”
“I pray tho Lord mvsoul to keep,” con
tinued the sister.
"1 pray the Lord my clothes to keep,”
whispered the boy.
“No, not ‘clothes to keep,’ ‘soul to
keep,’ ” corrected the sister.
“Soul to keep,” said the boy’.
“ Now say- it from the beginning,”
urged the worker iu the slums. “ ‘Now
I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord
m’v soul to keep.’ ”
But the poor little fellow was too intent
upon his treasures. “Now I lay me down
to sleep, I pray the Lord my clothes to
keep,” he said, making the same mistake
as before.
“No, no; that is not right,” spoke tho
painstaking sister. “You should pray
God to care for your soul, not your
clothes. I’ll take care of those.”
“And won’t you pawn them,” replied
the lad, to the astonishment of the sister,
“and buy rum with them! That’s what
they always did at home when I had new
clothes.”
Tears filled the eyes of the Slum sister,
but she brushed them aside as she kissed
the child. His few words of precocious
knowledge had revealed to her the story
of his brief life, and she neoded no more
to tell her of the misery of his home. Al
though he finally mastered his little
prayer, it was with these words, “I pray
the Lord my clothes to keep” on his Ups
that he fell asleep.
How to Ask for Water in German.
The saunterer was talking over college days
at the Club the other day, says the Boston
Budget.
"You remember Professor Heintzmann,
don’t you?” asked Blake. "He was the old
Gorman professor.”
The other smiled, nodded and wailed.
"Well.” Blake continued. I shall never
forget how one day he tried to explain to us
the difference In meaning between the Ger
man word ‘glas’ and ‘tassen.’ At first he
didn't seem to know just how to get at it, but
finally he sailed in. .
■ Veil shenth mens,” he said, "der deefer
ence is shust dees vay. Ef you should vant
some coffee you vould say: ‘Vaiter hring me
zweitassen cafe, already! But eef you should
vant soont vater you vould say: Valter,
bring me zwei glas beer, so quick like you
can!’ Verstehea, sle shentlemens?”
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opening Many, sept \i
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MILLINERY.
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at an early date a Hand
some selection of Pattern
Hats, Bonnets and Toques,
designs from the Leading
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Hertz Boyer, Madame Cur
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