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HAMILTON, GA.
77/OX S. MITCIIELL , -V. /A,
UnMiitil Physician ami SiiTcnn,
HAMILTON GEORGIA
Special attention given to operative surgery
Terms Cush
T-~ PRESTON GIBUS,
IS
SURGEON ano PHYSICIAN,
Hamilton, Ga. •
Will>>e found at the hotel or the store of
W H John.-ton unless professionally ehuased.
”CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE,
Br j. t. iiigginbothem.
WEST POINT, GA
ALONZO A. DOZIER,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
COLUMBUS, GA.
Practices in State and Federal Courts in
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HAMILTON, GEORGIA
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or anywhere else. Office in the Northwest
comer of the Court-house, up-stairs. janß
Columbus Dental Rooms,
W. T. POOL, Peoprli tor,
C orgia Ih'irr rtiiltinp fttlpmbns Ga.
HA^KINHOUSE
COLUMBUS, GA.
Mrs. F. M. GHAT, Proprietress
/. A. Sellfrs, Cleric.
G. A. KCEHNE,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
154 Broad St., Celnmbns, Ga-,
Has on he is hnnn.'om* ■ '-vtnient of Oeft
th men’s D.ess Hoods, English and French
Cassimere:, yestiogs, etc.
•
Cutting done at reasonahle rate .
Have your clothes made by me, and I smar
entee periect sati, faction in style and price.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.
I prepared to do any kind of Paint
ing—H° u se. £ign or Ornamental.
I can mend your Umbrellas and Parasols,
and them as good as new.
Prices low. Give me a trial. My shop i
opposite t&e market-house, Columbus, Ga.
W. D. SMITH, Katural Artist.
Hamilton mUfe Victor.
THE PAWXIJROKEIPS STORY.
Asa pawnbroker in a populous
suburb of London, 1 have had occa
sion to see painful and sometimes net
npleasing phases of society. Just
to give an idea of Wbat ,{>erinsioallv
comes under the notice of a person
in my profession, I shall describe a
little incident and its consequences.
One evening 1 stepped to the door
for a little fresh air and to look about
me for a moment. While I was gni
i-’g P and down the road, I saw a
tidily-dressed young jiWson step up
to our side door. She walked like a
lady—-and let me tell you that in nine
cases out of ten it's the walk, and not
the dress, which distinguishes the la
dy from the servant girl—and Hist
she looked about, and then she seemed
to make tip her mind in a flurried
soit of a way, and in a moment more
was standing at our counter, holding
out a glittering something in a little
trembling hand covered with a worn
kid glove.
My assistant, Isaacs, was stepping
forward to take the seal, when I
came in and interposed. The poor
voting tiling was so nervous and shy,
and altogether so unused to this
work, that I felt for her as if she had j
been my own daughter, almost. She]
couldn’t have been above eighteen I
years old—sc frail and gentle a crea
ture.
“If you please, will you tell mo,”
she said timidly, in a very sweet,
low voice, trembling with nervous
ness, “ what is the value of this
seal ? ”
“ Well, Miss," I said, taking the
sea! into my hand and looking at it
—it was an old-fashioned seal, such
as country gentleman used to wWf,
with a coat of arms cut upon it—
“that depends upon whether you
want to pledge it, or to sell it out
right.”
“ I atn married, sir,” and she said
the words proudly and with dignity,
though still so shy, and seaming
ready to burst out crying; “and my
husband is very ill —and —and—
And then the tears wouldn’t be kept
back any longer, and she sobbed as
if her poor little heart would break.
“There, there, my dear,” I said to
her; “donHcry ; it w ill come all right
in time;” and I tried to comfort her
in my rough-and-ready way, “I
will lend you, ma’am,” I said to her
at last, “ a sovereign upon this seal;
and if you wish to sell it, perhaps I
can sell it for you to advantage.”
And so I gave her a pound; and she
tripped away with a lighter heart,
and many thanks to me, and I thought
Do more of the matter at the time.
The very next day, the day before
Christmas, there came into our place
of business a Very eccentric gentle
mitt, who had called upon us pretty
often before, not for the sake of
pawning anything, though he was
generally shabby enough to. But he
was a collector —one of those men
who are mad upon old china and cu
riosities of all sorts.
“Anything in my way, to-day, Mr.
Davis?’’ he said, in his quick, ener
getic manner, with a jolly smile upon
his face, end putting down the cigar
ette he was smoking upon the edge
of the counter. The Rev. Mr. Broad
man is a collector of gems, and rings*
and seals, and, in fact, of any stohes
that have heads or figures upon them.
And I had been in the habit of put
ting aside for him whatever in this
way passed through ottr hands, for
he gave us a better price than we
should have got for them at the quar
terly eale3. “ The fact is, Davis,”
he said to me, “ these things are in
valuable: many of them are as beau
tiful, on a small scale, as the old
Greek scriptures; and some of them
even by the same artists. And they
are made no longer; for, in this busy
nineteenth century of oars, time and
brains are too precious to be spent
on these laborious trifles.” Now,
although I had no stones of the kind
be wanted just then, it entered into
my head that I would tell him about
the seal which had come into my
possession the evening before.
I told him the story somewhat as
I have just told it to you. lie lis
tened attentively to all I said. 'Whep
I had done he looked at the seal and
said, “I observe that it has been the
heraldic emblem of a baronet.” He
then congratulated me upon the wa;
in hich I had acted. He asked, too,
for this young lady’s address, which
she had given me qnite correct, and
then he left the shop without another
word.
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1875.
You must give mo leave to tell the
rest of the story in my own way,
although it may boa very different
way from that which the reverent
personage employed in relating it to
me afterward.
It seemed that U was a runaway
match. A country baronet’s son bad
fdlen in love with the clergyman’s
daughter in the village where his fa
ther lived, and they had run away to
gether and got married. Then they
came up to London, these two poor
young things—for neither his father,
nor herbs either, for the matter of
that, would have anything to Say to
the match—he, full of hopes of get
ting on in the literary and artistic
line, and she, poor creature, full of
trust in him.
The project of living by literature
did not turn out as was expected.
The young felhnv without experience
or friends, spent much time in going
about from one publisher to another,
and sending his writings to the vari
ous magazines—which I need not say
we e always “returned with thanks.”
And then lie fell ill: typhus, I fancy,
brought on bv insufficient nourish
ment, and bad drainage, and disap
pointed hopes. The registrar-general
does not give a return of these cases
in any list that I atn aw are of; but
we see something of them in our line
of business nevertheless.
It was just at this time that Mr.
1 >roadman found out Mrs. Vincent,
for tliat was the name of the voum*-
lady who came to my shop with the
gold seal.. Cambridge Terrace is not
very far from the Angel at Islington,
and theie, in a hitlc back street of
small, respectable houses, inhabited
by junior e'erks, with here and there
a lodging house, Mr. and Mrs. Vin
cent lived.
They w ere rather shy at first of a
stranger, and a little proud and
haughty, perhaps. People who have
seen better days and are down upon
their luck, are apt to be so. But the
parson with his pleasant ways and
cheery Aoice, soon made it all right;
and, in a jiffy, be and Mr. Vincent
were talking about college, for they
had both been to the same university.
And there was even soon a smile, too
-—a wan smile enough—upon the
poor invalids’ sharp-cut, thin face,
with (lie hollow, far-away eyes, which
looked at you as if out of a cavern.
He was the wreck of a line young fel
low, too; one who had been used to
his buttling and shooting, and all the
country sports which make broad
chested, strong-limbed country peo
ple the envy of us poor, thin, pale
townsfolks.
Mr. Broadman came direct to me
when he left them. I did not live
far off, and he thought that I might
lend them a neighbor’s help. “Da
vis,” says he, “that poor fellow is dy
ing; I can see death in his eyes.”
What is he dying of? ” ] replied.
He looked at me steadfastly a mo
tne'nt, and I could see a moisture on
his eye, as he said, slowly arid sol
emnly, “Of starvation, Davis—of ac
tual want of food.”
“A geutleman starving in London,
in Islington, a baronet’s son, too!
Why it’s incredible.”
“ Not at all,” said Mr. Broadman !
“ these are the very people who die
of starvation in London, and in ail
great cities. Not the poor who know
where the work-house is, and who
can get at the relieving officer, if the
worst comes to the worst; but the
weii-born, who have fallen into des
titute poverty, and who carry their
pride with them, and dive into a back
alley like some wild animal into a
hole, to die alone. Mr. Vincent
wants wine and jellies, and all sorts
of good things; if help hasn’t come
too late. No, no, my friend,” he
continued, putting back my hand, for
I was ready to give my money in a
proper cause. “No, no; I have left
them all they want at present, Davis.
Bnt I’ll tell you what you can do;
yon can, if you like to play the good
Samaritan, go and see them, and
cheer them up a bit. Mr.s Vincent
hasn’t forgot your kindness to her, I
can assure you, And I think hat
husband would like to thank you
too, and it would rouse him up a bit
perhaps.” And then Mr. Broadman
told me, shortly, something of what
these two poor things Lad gone
through—she, loving and trusting
him so; and he, half mad that he had
brought her to this pass, and could
do nothing for her.
Mr. Broadman wrote that very day
to the baronet, a proud, hard man,
I’m told. But the letter was soft
enough, and mellrog to read; it was
so full of human nature, yon see the
father’s heart swelling tip at the,
thought of getting back his son; and
bursting through the thick crust of
pride which had prevented him from
making the first advances. And the
parsi.n siys to me: “ Well, Mr. 1) i- j
vis,” he said, “there arc many pec-j
pie kept asunder only for want of j
somebody to go between them, you
see, and make peace.”
And I said partly to myself:
“Why shouldn’t Christianity itself
be such a generous peacemaker as
that?”
“Av,” replied Mr. Rroadtnan, “if
people only believed in it properly.”
That very day we grit the l>aro
net’s letter, 1 was On my way in the
afternoon to Cambridge terrace to pay
my respects to Mrs. Vincent—and I
lmd sent, in a few bottles oPgood old
port wine from my own wine-merch
ant —at least as good as coaid be got
for money or love. Well, when I got
near tlie door, I saw an old gentle
man walking up and down, a little
disturbed, apparently, in his mind at
finding himself in suck a queer local
ity, and as if looking for something
or somebody. A short, rosv-faced
fellow lie was, clean shaved as a pin,
and very neat and old fashioned in
his dress, w ith that sort of air about
him which marks an English country
gentleman wherever he may be.
Well, we soon got into a talk, for I’d
spotted the Baronet in a moment, and'
lie w as anxious to find out something
about bis son, as soon as be beard I
knew a little of the young couple.
“And yoti, do not think, sir, that
my--—that Mr. 7 invent is dangerously
ill?” said the old baronet; and there
was a sob in bis voice as lie spoke,
and bis hand trembled as ho laid it
upon mine.
“ Here is the house,” I said, “and
you will be able to judge for your*,
self.”
We went in. At least, Ihc baro
net went into the room, trembling in
every limb with the excitement of
seeing Isis son. But when he set
eyes on him, the poor old man was so
startled that he could scarcely speak.
His son saw him and tried to rise,
hut fell back feebly into his chair.
“ Dear father,” lie murmured, stretch
ing out a thin, trembling hand, “for
give ”
But the father was on his knees
by the chair in a moment, clasping
his son’s head in his arms, and fon
dling him as he had dono when
the man was a baby,
“ What have I to forgive? Y T ou
must forgive me for being so hard,
my dear boy, and get heller soon,
Wilfred, my son, my son ! ”
I had come into the room; I ocmld
not help it, I was bo interested and
excited. But I saw that in the young
man’s face which made my heart sink
into my bosom like lead.
The young wife saw it too, o,nd
gave one, two, three sharp screams,
as if a knife had been thrust into her
side.
Mr. Broadman saw it; and quietly
kneeling down, commended to God
—as well as he could, for sobbing—
the soul of his servant departing this
life.
And I—well, why should I be
ashamed to confess it ? I knelt down
too, and cried like a child ; for the
young man had died in his father's
arms at the very moment of recon
ciliation.
I m ICJ—.
They have a fountain of death
in Pennsylvania. It is on Nobow
Ridge, near Reading. The water is
cold, but bubbles and foams as if boil
ing. The bubbling is caused by a
deadly gas. There is no animal life
within a hundred yards of the foun
tain. Birds that fly over the spring
and too near fall dead. Bnakes have
been thrown into the charmed circle
of its influence and died in three min
utes. Ills estimated that it will de
stroy human life in twenty minutes,
but the actual experiment has not
been made. It is said that aventure
j some fellow once stood over the pool
j five minUtes, and found it very diffi—
! cult to get away in lime for healthy
respiration to resume.
The Irwinton Southerner savs
that as Mr. L. L. Peacock was je-RiH
| ting in loading a wagon whb seed
cottofi from a pen in his field, he took
up with an annlul of cotton a good
sized rattlesnake, which he threw into
j the wagon. The cotton became sep
arated and the- snake was disclosed
I with a mouthful of cotton which he
! had got hold of trying to strike while
‘in Mr. Peacock's embrace. The wag
oner vacated in favor of the snake,
I and afterwards killed him with a
I pole.
Special Correspondence of the Visitor.
FLORIDA.
A Trip to Middle Fla, —Scenes
by (lie Wayside.—The Florida
Penitentiary.— A Spring Oar
den in Wilder.—Crops in (lads*
don.— Ml.Pleasant.—Sitting on
the Stile.—Gophers*—Ground
hogs, etc., etc.
November 20, 1875.
1 have now been spending several
weeks in Florida,and one of the most
delightful of nty experiences has been
a visit to Gadsden county, in the mid
dle part of ,the State. Accompanied
by one of the most entertaining la
dies in Jackson, I left Greenwood by
private conveyance, and went through
the country to Chattahoochee Land
ing, on the Apalachicola river.
The country is perfectly level, nttd
an almost unbroken pino forest to
the Landing. At some points we
could see for miles away through the
pities, and the scenery is beaqtiful.
Here and there along our line of tra
vel may be seen small houses, with a
few acres of land iu.cultivation. As
wo approach the river, we find the
residences of large planters, and ev-*
erytbing is more inviting. I was so
well entertained by my traveling com
panion, that I forgot to niake much
observation ; however, I counted as
many as eight large black fox-squir
rels in-one group, and a little farther
on four'tnoro were playing together.
This section of the country is filled
with deer and other game. Wc ar
rived at
riiATTAitoocmcit
about 4 o’clock, and here the Flint
and Chattahoochee rivers come to
gether, forming the Apalachicola.
We were carried across the stream
in a flat ferry-boat, managed by a ne
gro as bright as Egyptian darkness,
and after handing the “beautiful
snow ” six hits, (they count money
by hits here,) we hade him adieu and
went up to
Title or.n iform,
to lunch. Aftei' reaching the eastern
hank of the river, the first thing that
presents itself is a large and imposing
wooden structure, which is now for
saken and empty, consequently is ra;>-
Idly going to decay. It was not al
ways forsaken and lone, and the large
live oaks which stretch out their long,
slender arms of green seem to try to
hide the forsaken grim ness of the old
mansion. Time has been when its
coat was white, the blinds were green
and its doors swung on oiled hinges.
To days gone past, there was a patter
ing of merry feet to and fro; a busy
Opening and shutting of doors; a
ceaseless rattling of tins and dishes in
the kitchen, and a rustling of books
and papers in the cosy sitting-room.
The old house is shabby now, and
cob-webs aro on the window sills.
Travellers go elsewhere now to seek
a slopping place, “ Such is life.”
Leaving this grim old house, we then
slowly ascended the winding road up
the chain of river hills. First black
hill, then up white hill, and next up
red hill to the sandy level again. A
ride of one milo up those hills brought
us to the town of Chattahoochee, and
the only attraction we found at, this
dilapidated little village was the old
Arsenal, which at present is .
THE FLORIDA riCNITKNTfAftV,
In speaking of attractions, 1 except
the people, of course, as I was told
that the most handsome tnnn in the
State resides Imre, and this informa
tion was rccieVed from a young lady
of excellent taste. You may be sur
prised at the idea of a penitentiary
being an attractive place, but it is
truly such. The wall is a splendid
piece of workmanship, and the build
ings are large, fine and well arranged.
It is on an elevation, and overlooks
the country for a long distance. The
prison house is the only gloomy look
ing place about the grounds, arid it
almost makes you shudder to look at
this massy pile of brick and mortar,
with bars of iron running two ways
across the windows. Attached to
tho grounds and inside the wall is
A garden
which reminds one of the early spring
though it is now winter. The gar
den had been freshly worked, anß
cabbage plants, tomatoes, lettuce, and
ail vegetables imaginable bad been
freshly set out in one portion, while
in another part, the same kind of veg
etables were in full and half growth.
Judging from appearances, it is no
more difficult to have a garden here
in winter than in summer. About
ten miles from the place we came to
MOUNT PLEASANT,
and found that the name is by no
means a misnomer. It is quite a nice
settlement, with the J, P. and M. R.
It. running through it, and all the
j conveniences of a good market close
at hand. The people are at*, sociable
and clever :is they know how to bo,
and they seem-to understand the bus
ine-'B perfectly. Your Correspondent
was entertained in a most princely
style, which lie attributes to the most
excellent company ho was with, as
well as tho principles of hospitality
which actuate all whole-souled peo
ple; and at Mu Pleasant none other
can be found. Some few people here
in Gadsden county have been get-
ting into trouble by living too fast,
but things generally aro not going to
the dogs, as in many other places
The people are in the main “ well-to
do” farmers, and will come around
all right after awhile. Even now they
are able to pay their ‘’quarterage”
regularly, and it is a commendable
fact that they take great interest in
church affairs; more so than any por
tion of the State 1 have visited. One
of the greatest things aL Mount Pleas
ant is
COT* XtARTtN’s VI NET ART),
nvrhioh embraces an area of about 30
to 40 acres. He lias grapes in any
variety and quantity, and they aro a
fortune to him. He also has about
40 acres enclosed, in which ho con
templates setting out various kinds
of fruit trees. I Its house is an ele
gant, as well ns a novel otic, and but
for a shower of rain, which prevented
an evening t ido, I would have gone
through it. Col. Martin is the ioss of
the penitentiary, and uses the con
victs to do any work for him he may
desire, and is making a fat thing out
of it.
TIIU field ettot’s
of Gadsden are com, cotton, cane,
poas, rice, rice, oals, potatoes, ground
pons and tobacco, all of which can bo
successfully and profitably grown.
The soil and climate of this section is
well adapted to raising the sea island
or long staple coll on. The Cuba to
bacco is another great crop here, and
can he grown throughout the State,
but as a staplo market crop, it lias
heretofore been confined to this coun
ty. The crop of Gadsden alone in
lfltlO amounted to 1,200,000 lbs,, and
the demand wiih equal to the supply,
Capt. George Davis gave mo some '
cigars of his own manufacture, that
only require ago to make them equal
to the first-class ilavanahs. It lias
been said that you might ns woll talk
Hebrew to Turks us romance to the
young ladies of Florida, as they are
far too practical to admit of anything
like theorising, but one of the. most
pleasant mementoes of Mt. Pleasant
was the old Scotch style of
SITTING ON THE STII.B.
In company witli one of the moat
accomplished of Florida flowers, I sat
in the bright moonlight, and waitod
the gathering of the congregation for
church. There is quite a romance In
this, and, somehow, tilings seem moro
pleasant in one glorious whirl of de
light, as J recognized in my fair com
panion all those charms that take
hold of the human heart. -It was a
moment of ccsiacy (to me)—a mo
ment looked and longed for, that is
only realized once in a life-time, as we
made dales of a. confidential chat, and
promised a mutual remembrance of it
—Nov. 6th. Long after the present
fades into the past will I remember
Mt. Pleasant, and the “sitting on the
stile.”
In my last communication I prom
ised to tell you something about the
PECULIARITIES OF THE GOPHER,
but I have already so lengthened this
letter, that I can speak of only one of
his redeeming tuaits of character, and
the way he is used in capturing the
ground-hogs. Those with whom it
is a “ground-hog case,” take a go
pher, first having procured some rich
ligbtwood splint-a-s, which they se
curely fasten to his back, and having
found a ground-hog bole, they Bet
the splinters on fire, and send the go
pher with the burning torch into the
hole, lie soon runs the hog out,
which is killed by a sentinel posted
near by, and the gopher is cangbt
and releived of his tovch, and is
reudy for another victim, So endeth
another chapter, Videttk,
Prolific. —The Albany News says
that Mrs. Howard, of Colquitt coun
ty, has given birth to three children
in eleven months—a pair of twins ten
and a half months after the birth of
the first child.
fisP The steamship City of Waco
was lately destroyed by fire off
Galveston. It i supposed that every
soul perished, •
$2.00 A YEAR.
What are We to Do?
Ed. VrsiTOß —This question is ask
ed almost every hour in the day by
some fanner in oilr ttbmmnuity. The
orinrity is in a dilemma, and a recital
may lead to some good suggestions
tliat will relieve us of a part of our
troubles.
Not more than a half Crop has
been made, and planters are in debt*
Tho merchants have strained their
credit that they might .thus be ena
bled to accommodate the former*
The farmers’ notes are not WrDrth in
the aggregate more than forty cents
in the dollar; consequently the mer
chants must Deforced into bankruptcy*
In addition to a failure in crops*
there are a score of “tramps’* roam
ing through the country, who break
our locks, steal our hogs, Chickens,
etc., carry away our corn, Cotton, and
frequently ottr mules* They carry
our produce to a cross roads grocery,
where they find a “ kid glove gent *
ready to exohango a pint of “rot-gut”
whisky for a bushel of good corn, 23
lbs. seed cotton, Or half dofcon grown
chickens. When We Boud our labor
ers to mill they will slip a peck of
corn from each sack before they get
there, and find tho hone At miller
ready to swap them three five-oent
halls of thread, ten cents Worth of
candy, or four pounds of fourth qual
ity flour for a bushel of our corn,
when ye honest (?) miller knows at
tho time that he is trading with a ne
gro who works for standing wages,
and has no corn at all of his own.
It. is the else In many instances
where nien gin for tile ptlbliC—gius
part of our cotton in the daytime for
the toll—buys the balnrtCo fit flight*
forty pounds to tllo dollar, and, front
tho best information we Can get,
about | of tho cotton never gets to
the hands of the proper owners, A
neat mathematical calculation would
demonstrate that one-fl.’th of the pub
lic mills and gins in tho country nrd
engaged in tho traffic of Btolc-u corn
and cotton, and the estinfate abont
one-fifth for toll, What are we to Jo ?
But still further; the cross-roads
grocery, the mill and tho pUbiiO gin
aro not tho only places where the
funner* aro made to snffor. There
are said to be fifty shops in tho city
of Columbus, and one of the largest
manufacturing business houses in tho
city, engaged in trading for Beed cot*
ton.
I am unable to say what we are to
do, hut I know that wo cannot live at
this fust rate; and unless we have ft
law to check tils business, we will
necessarily be forced to obeck it wiih
our own hands. Every individual
should determine, and every organ
ized body ahould pass resolutions
bearing upon this question, and give
no patronage to any one that engages
in the traffic of seed cottotl, or couru
tenanco any man who will trade for
seed cotton, or any other produce, if
he has any reason to think it is stolen.
If this state of affairs continues, I
am persuaded that wo will soon be
unable to pay even twenty cents in
the dollar.
Then, will not our merchants, fof
mutual benefit, aid us in memorializ
ing our representatives to enact such
laws as will protect us from such au
outrage ?
If we detect and have ofie of these
thievos arrested, through the care
lessness of some officer, or by tho
low advantage that some lawyer will
take of technicalities, we cati not easi
ly in this county bring one to justice.
If this is not the case, we happen to
have a jail, the original cost of which
was $2,000, besides a cost of one or
two hundred dollars annually, which
will keep a prisoner only so long as
he wishes to board on the county at
50 cents per day. Yet we must not
complain, but be as docile as lambs.
Let the thieves steal everything we
have, and carry it to our neighbor—■
he will buy it i arrest the thief and
commit him to jail—he is taken ont
on some writ. We are taxed to death
to pay the public debt in order to
punish the guilty, yet nobody is pun*
islied, and wo must not complain, or
else sonic gent is insulted,
As good citizens, it stands ns it!
hand to break up theft in till its
grades and shapes, and we would be
glad to hear of any means by which
it can be accomplished.
Cataula.
To do business a man roast
have dollars and sense.
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