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Address
The News -Record, .
Clinton. Ont
The Huron News -Record
Wednesday, December 14, 1887
AN M. P.'S DOWNFALL.
Hounded into Bankruptcy by
the Rapacity of an Extortionist.
LoND0N, ENG. Duo. 2.—Win.
Copeland Borlase, formerly a mem-
ber of parliament for the St. Austell
division of Cornwall and under
secretary of the local government
board, was exanaiued in the bank-
ruptcy court. His liabilities amount
to £42,658 and his assets to £8,371.
He traced a part of his embarrass
ment to his relations with his mis-
tress, Madame De Quiros, whom he
allowed a fixed' income of £25 a
week. At first sho payments.. were
made willingly, but subsequently
the money was extorted from him.
The woman followed him to France,
Main, and •finally to Wales where
he was forced to obtain police pro-
tection against her and hor reale
companion. The last £500 he gave
her was paid in Trafalgar- square.
She was passing in a cab; when she
,saw him, and stopping the cab, made.
him get in and go ivith her to the
bank and get the money. She ac-
cused him of deeds he had never
-committed, and on one occasion, at
2 o'clock in- the morning, forced lier
way into his wife's bedroom and
told of her relations with Mr: Bar -
lase. Since that time he Said his
life had been mule misery to him.
Although lie owed hor nothing;•ehe
still pretended, to have claims
against him. At this point the -exa-
mination was.adjourued. The case
is exeiting'much interest.
He Blanked Poor Canada.
Buffalo Conner,
Ho wore a wearied air and a
coon -skin coat, and he perspired
freely as he flooded his lower level
with beer. IIo had' some griev-
ance on his mind, and, as the hours
sped along and the column of fluid
in his tank mounted higher, he bo -
came animated with a desire to blow
off. He began by cursing Canada
from Canso to Vancouver and back,
in her constitution, laws and in-
stitutions, -in hor population com-
merce and navigation, all and sever-
al of which ho consigned to the
deepest and hottest depth of per-
dition. Ho had gone to Manitoba
to do a long job of railroading, it
appears, and, winter .setting in; ha.
resolved to pull up stakes for home
Senec.t County. "It costs a heap
to got home,' he said, "and, while I
was figuring on it, along comes a
feller that had got one of the
matrimonial tickets issued by the
Canadian Pacific railroad. You see,
if a feller wants to go oast and get
married, the company sells him a
rebate ticket. I was 'a little chuck,
I guess, when I ran again a feller
with a rebate ticket au' bought it
for a trifle. When I presented it
to the conductor he not only refus-
ed it but collars me, all conductors
in Canada be'in' police officers, and
runs me in an'" has me fined $50
for violatin' the anti-sealpin'law.
I could have bought four tickets
for what that cussed auti-scalpin'
law cost me before I got through.
D ---Canada and all Canadians
anyhow ?" .
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Fur tlfa 8099P4 411e4s4 the. pQJ 1ty
was -heath, without buueftt of caex
and not only 'wore -ue 1ectt'ul ca -
:3ta,bles. disc?[,, but rill persons w1ie.
fail t.. a are a d pop s e r t' ,
Q P1 h. tt t pus kal. p'ty
10 shillings, Those;yho could not
bo set to worn were'te he banished
top he New Found Londe, the East
and West Indies; Germanic, 1 ranee,
Spayne, or the Leve Countries.
People were ready to make a pro-
fit out of housing the London beg-
gars. Here.- is a thorough case of
the "Tatteboy's Rents":
In the 40th of Elizaboth, in the
star chamber her matys attorney -
general did enforme that Rice Gals
fin
rif-
fin had unlawfully built a tenement
in Hog lane.—now worship street
—which he divided into several
rooms, wherein were living poor
tenants that wel'tf' maintained by
begging abroad in other places ;and
that John Scrips had, in like sort, a
tonernent in Shorditeh.
But country, as well as town,, was
afflicted ' with the epidemic. In
Somerset. "the numbers," writes
Edward Hext, a justice of the peace,
"aro infinite. ...They live meshy by
sheep stealing saying boldly' that
they will not starve, and, when 'I
threaten them with the house of
correction they confess a felony so
as the rather to be cont to gaol."
We do not appear to have adopt-
ed the Dtitch cure for inveterate
beggars—a' water -tight compartment
with a pump in it and a tap. high
ot'.t of roach. In this the man was
put, and the tap set running. so that
he was obliged to pump to keep
himself • from being drowned.
Whipping was the great English in-
centive to exertion, while sham
soldiers were treated as felons and
'likely to be hanged. Two classes
of vagrants excepted were "diseased
poor traveling to Bath or Buxton,"
and "John Dutton's fiddlers in the
county Chester." Chester." This curious
privilage.,,dates from 1210, when the
Welsh in great force besieged the
Earl of Chester in Rhuddian castle.
He sent word to his steward to col-
lect troops and raise the siege, who,
coming into Chester at midsummer
fair, and finding there was a great
mob of fiddlers and players, marched
with -them and frightened off the
Welsh, who took thein for an -army.
Whereupon the earl, by charter,
gave the steward and his heirs
power over all the fiddlers and cob-
blers in Chester. Fiddlers used to
take out a Dutton license. Tho last
licensing court was held in 1756,
but the st..tute was not repealed till
1882 ! • Under -Janes I., 'along with
re-enactment of the vagrancy 'act
and deportations to Virginia„ ---came
an issue of copper farthings—to
supersede the lead tokens,, "plain -
'loos Anglia;," of which Erasmus
speaks.
Here and there a man took action
without wahine, for justice or con-
stables.. "One Mr. Harman of 'War-
wickshire, being pestered extremely
with sturdy beggars and wandering
rogues, did take order that they
should all bo sent to the house,
whom presently he set to work to
gather stones of his grounds, and
gave tein some small reldefo in
moat and drink and a penny a day,
and hold them hard at'work (having
lusty, stout servants to see to th'em),
and when be had made at, end of
gathering off his own grounds he.
sot them -to work in his neighbors'
and paid them their wages, which
thing, when all the rest of the wan-
dering beggars understood, they
durst not:one of them come a•beg=
ging in that parish, for fear, they
should be' made to work. And for
the younger sort of idle poor in his
own parish this was such a dicipline
for then that they did betake them-
selves to poor and honest labor, and
so the true poor were much better
relieved."
What Would.He Have
Thought P
"If to an Americon Indian of the
olden time," says the Boston -Pan-
.
scrz:pt,;
an-
scrz:pt,; "a woman of our modern
civilization had suddenly appeared
walking painfully in her tight„
high -heeled boots„ her free motion
checked by skirts and "pull backs,"
drawing her breath -unsteadily
from above her Tiny pinched waist„
hor neck tightly eollnred up to her
cars„ the bird i;toc in her hat
reaching far above her head and
pointing to the zenith„ and her
skirts hanging out a yard behind
her as from a camel's hump—:what
would the Indian have thought do
you suppose 1" Possibly' what the
New Hampshire farmer said the
first time lie mot a fullflodged
"dude' on sho highway„ "Well„
well ; what funny things a feller
sees when he hain't got no gun
with him ?"
A POSTMASTER'S OPINION
"I have great pleosure in certifying
to the use of Hagyard's Yellow Oint"
writes Dr. Kavanagh, Postmaster, of
Unfraville, Ont., "having used it for
soreness of the throat, burns, colds
eta., I find nothing egqnal to it.';
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bulanoe, of ant.oitut clue fat' die,
boarej4 and ivaiutenanc,e PI a eat,
IM4binsou appeared foir the
plaintiff, Rud Mr. Rickards for the
clofendant, The cat, whin was fi
favorite and' very valuable, canto
into the possession of the plaintiff
in June, 188$, when au agreement
was entered into by which she un-
dertook to keep the animal and
supply it every day with half a
pound of liver and a pint of milk,
fot which she was to receive 2s: per
week,' payable by instalments of 21
in advance. The defendant paid
,various sums up to August, 1884,
and several letters passed, one as
follows. -
"Daut ANNIE. --Inclosed is £1
off James's (the cat's) account, and
a tin of sardines -for his dinner,
which I hope he will enjoy. - I
enclose also a loin of pork, which
I trust will bo equally acceptable to
yourself."
In August last year the defen-
dant became desirous of having
"Poor Jim". poisoned, and -sent• a
nlessenger•with a letter begging that
the cat should bo handed ver for
that purpose.
The plaiutitf' .tated that in 1883
Mme Coruher, who was a wealthy
lady, lived in Sussex street, Pimlico,
and the witness was, her char.
woman. On changing 'her resi-
dence she asked the witness to take
care of the cat, and the witness was
to feed it as stated. •
Mr. Itiekards (ill, cross-examina-
tion(—Have you a receipt for what
you fed that cat on ?
The Witness—No,_but my solici-
tor has. Very often my husband
and I have fed that cat when we
wore hungry ourselves. We did
it out of respect to Mine. Corner.
Sho sent us many presents, such as
a• loin of pork.
Mr. Robinson—It was a very
vnluable•cat, was it not?
The Wituess—Yes.
-Mr.'Rickards—I should think so.
He ate almost enough to keep a
man.
The Witn ess—I Would not like
to keep you on it long. •
Not on loins of pork 1
Tho Witness.—We ate the pork ;
"Jim" ate the sardines.
Unt•imately. his Honor gave judg-
ment for the plaintiff for the
amount claimed.
Oh .''Hevings P" Can Such
Things, Be?
T. P. Gill, M, P., cables' as . follows
to theTribune last Thursday;—When
Mr. O'Brien's clothes .were stolen in
the gray of 'early horning ono would
have thought that Mr. Balfour's iu-
•famy had at last touched bottom,
but .there was a lower depth, and
last night this was reached; Mr.
Mandeville, in order to prevent the
repetition of the clothes -snatching
tatics, had since his removal to Tull-
arnore slept in his clothes: When
darkness had come, and it comes
early in the noisome cells of Tulla-
more, John Mandeville lay down on
his plank bed. At last sleep came to
him,and he was for a little while for-
getful of the tortures of Tullamore.
He did not know that outside*the cell
there werewardens on the watch with
their ears close .to the. grating in the
iron door,listening for the first change
in his breathing in order that the
governor, like the modern. Macbeth,
might have the news that his victim
slept. _
How cautiously and holy stealthily
dp they step along the corridors, six
of the warders headed by the aged
governor of the prison, Captain
Fetherstonhaugfh ! The door of the
cell is opened and with a rush they
enter. Before the prisoner can turn
he is seized by the: six warders. He
demands what they want. , The
governor mutters hurriedly that lie
either have to take off his clothes.
and (Tress himself in the prison suit
or the 'clot'hes will be torn off his
back. Against the six warders he
struggles, the governor standing by.
It is of no avail. T.ite man's clothes
are dragged off him with violence.
He calls out, "For the sake of decency
leave me a shirt" ; but his call is un-
answered, the shirt is torn off and
Mr. Balfour's prisoner
STANDS NAKED IN 1115 CELL,
oovering himself as best he can with
the miserable strip of quilting that
lie is allowed to hide the plank bed.
Ho turns on the seven gaolers, and
tells them that they have acted in
defiance of the Jaw au.l ont-t,'plt,ra
their loathsome duty. 1 -le oaks that
his clothes be given back to him, and
says that he cannot surely exist in a
state of nudity until Christmas, when
the term of hie imprisonment *ill
expire.
The governor, as ire leaves the cell,
points to the blue rags in the corner,
and says :—
"There are clothes ; put thein on."
"I will die first," was the reply.
The door is locked and the naked
man is left in darkness. It was a
noble exploit. •
At half -past eight this morning Dr.
Moorhead, assiduous as ever, is at
the gaol door. IIe is led to Mr.
O'Brien's cell. He finds him still in
"his new clothes, but he is looking pale
and ill. Mr. Mandeville he finds
walking up and down in his flagged
cull with the quilt and sheet wrapped
around him. • '
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�olgl�,ras ;Coot,lit on the kxaterg of
the t.ve' and' the heights above
them, •
Af, the very apot.wl>_ere the Atnter.
ieana were driven over the precipice
there was enacted, WAG thirty Tem -
ago, a fearful triple tragedy. 4.
man named Tom Brennan lived with.
a family,by the name of-Conuore, itr
a cabin near by. He became unduly
familiar with the woman and finally,
with --her knowledge and presum-
ably her consent, murdered her
husband, copied the bloody corpse
on his back to the 'precipice, and
threw it over. A few days after the
woman began to get -conscience
stricken and Brennan, fearing that
she might_ betray him, killed her;
carried her body to the precipice,
and hurled it over to join that of
hor husband .among the rocks and
trees below. Then he, returned to
the cabin, where there still retained
the only. child of his victims,... It
was a little boy, and when hebegan
to cry, this inhuman monster, iyho
had rnurde red the father and mother,
took the child in his arms, and carry-
ing hint to the same spot where he
had thrown the other bodies 'over,
without even going through the
formality of first killing him, he
tlnow'the little fellow over the pre-
cipice. Through some, apparently,
miraculous intervention the boy was
not killed by the full, but found
himself by the side of the mangled
remains of his father and mother,
badly bruised, and his arta broken,
but otherwise uninjured. He
crawled away and hid in the village
and a few days after told his story
to sho villagers, who instituted a
sear clt.apd found the dead bodies of
the man and woman.
,Brennan was found in the hold of
au emigrant ship at Montreal, on
his way back to the old world. Ho
was brought back to old Niagara -on -
the Lako, where he was tried, found
guilty, and executed. And, as a
fitting sequel to such a bloody car-
eer, when he was hanged he was
given such a fall and length of rope
that his head was toru from the
body and rolled in one direction
while the trunk fell against the
• prison wall, which was all bespat-
tered, to a height of some ten feet,
with the crimson record of his crimes
and their expiation.
A Young Wife's Suicide.
The \Viarton, Bruce county, Echo
says :—Many things have' occurred
of late years on this peninsula of a
startling CharaCtel', but nothing has
given the community such a shock
as the news which was circulated
on Sunday night that Mrs. Charles
\Vhicher, an intelligent and highly
respectable lady of Colpoy's village,
had committed suicide by jumping
into the waters of Colpoy's Bay. It
has been generally known for some
months flint the deceased was some -
What affected ill her mind from a
recent attack of brain fever. -After
her recovery from the disease sho
became melancholy and wanted to
speak to no one. Her husband took
her to Toronto where, -she was treated
by the best physicians, who pro-
nounced her wholly recovered from
her malady;lind she returned to her
home ou Tuesday of last week. Her
friends noticed with sorrow that the
old complaint was quite visible, and
as she has tried on different occasions
to take her life, sho was watched
closely. On the night in question,
however, she appeared in the best of
spirits, playing on. the piano, singing
and conversing with her fancily; to
all appearances as sane as possible.
She -left the room where she had
been chatting. with her family and
went into en adjoining one, and
was gone but a few minutes when
her husband missed her. On going
to the room which she had so lately
entered .he found, to his surprise,
that the window was closed and -his
wife was not there. He'r tracfcs
could be easily seen' where she had
,jumped from the window mud took
a direct course, for the bay,. which
was but a few rods distant. Mr,
Whither at once followed in her
tracks, which ,;ottld bo easily dis-
cerned in the snow, to the bay, and
on arriving he saw something flout-
ing some distance from the wharf:
•IIe at once procured a boat and
rowed to the spot, and found' that it
was his wife, who but a few minutes
pievious was with him to all appear-
ances in the best of health and
strength, now cold in death, and
her own murderer. Before leaving
the house she had donned a rubber
dolman, which sho had buttoned'
around her, placing her arms inside.
The air that gathered on the inside
of this mantle had po way of escape
and kept tho body of the unfortun-
ate lady afloat. Sho Was taken beak
to the house so lately loft by hor and
every effort was used to bring back
anilnation,_butall• failed, life was ex -r
tinct. Sho 11ad seen in the water as
near as could be judged about twen-
ty minutes. Tho deceased was in
the prime of life, being only 34
years of' age, and leaves a • husband
,and three small .childrou to mourn
her' untimely end. Her parents
live in Toronto.
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Qtbe}, , .Gs bard to, ii
1�. a be t1 .a a kvay
at txo, uns. age, 1?:ore Den 1"
She tn.otded the bu.ttermilli Bakes,
plaoedr,t.heln in a 1hall, and shoved
tem into, the rlokety Qvon. 'Pore
' Den I she went. on, in her dispirit-
, e4 manner, "s'posen he's went on his
faol'''S arrant us usual. Lawy.or
Shame won't do nothin'. Arian !"
for there was a -sound from aliove-
stairs. ShiJ listened awhile. "Ou'y
the ole man a-coughin'.," she said,
getting, into the rocking -chair and
swaying herself in a nervous, jerky
fashion, losing herself in thoughts
that involved deep sighs,
A. homely old,woman, with sur-
roundings as homely. Her life had
been a continuous struggle, as . had
been her liusband'e. No child had
come to lighten the cart and keep..
their hearts from growing too .old;
trouble had ordinarily abided.•with
them, although they had.. always
managed. until this autumn to keep
'the wolf from -the door. Now gaunt
povertystared them in the • face.
Throe or four summers had been
damp and -cold, the crops had done
miserably in consequence, there
had been little or no money, and
the mortgage was about to be fore-
closed.- ,More than that, a plague
has come' to the chickens and deci-
mated them, and the pig had • the
measles. For days the living hail
been cakes, made of coarseiflour and
buttermilk ; husband and wife wore
too much depressed to miss better
fare or to wish for it.
Rocking in her chair, hor seamed
hands ..picking at the hem of, her
apron, the wife, untidy and griev-
ing, bore little evidences of a hap-
pier earlier time, any more than did_
the scant, poor furniture boar evi-
dence of a time when it had marked
the existence of prosperity.
A two -roomed cottage with a
loft over -]load, a generous farm
around it, which should have borne
full and plenty for the household,
except -that seasons will.° bad,. and
the mortgage interest .had to be
paid. It was their farm no longer;
Mr. Slamo would foreclose next
month.
"I haint no blame fer Slaute,"
Windom would say ; "he wants
his money an' we can't pay him. I
hain.t no blame fer hint."
All the same, he went now and
then to the lawyer, a wistfuliness
in his face that made the holder of
the mortgage out of conceit with
himself, that his need of the money
compelled him to do what he was
about to do. Yes, Windom often
-vent, and wondered if there might
not be a stay of proceedings; not
that ho had auy prospective funds
to help hits out, but that th'e un-
complaining of his wife reproached
him more• than. her complaints
might have done for Ms inability to
provide a home for her, while his
sudden pride made thought of
charity suicidal. Nino, hundred
dollars would have set it all right-L-
a
ight=a poor nine hundred dollars. Nine
thousand dollars would have been
as come -at -able. And yet-
-
"Ben's later'n ordin'ry,t' his wife
murmured, rousing herself at last,
and, going to the oven drew out the
cakes; "s'posen Lawyer Staines
'splainin' it all over agin. Wisht
he come ; them cakes'll be spiled.
He mustn't find me low thought ;
he never see me low all the
forty-five year sence the Marriage -
day. Wisht he'd come."
She put the- cakes on the table,
and went to the door to look for
her husband.
The af'toruoou was growing old,
and over the western hills 'a reel
glow streamed like a beautiful river;,
the. wind was crisping, and bit the
leaves from the trees, whose boughs
were beginning to show ; a bird
pocking at the grass flow up with a
startled whirr when an acorn fell
and bounded over to the path.
Maria Windom looked .around
her at stubble fields, at empty barn,
at the •stye whore the ailing pig
complained; the chickens were not
wandering about, but disconsolately
hugged a corner of the wall, where
still lingered a ray' of the sun.
"On'ya-month more, and thea it
paint own uo mors. Wisht Bon 'd
come."
Even as the words trembled in
the air sho saw a black uprightness
moving across the hills, the sun
back of it snaking a silhouette of the
human figure as black as its elon-
gated shadow into which it stop-
ped.
"Pore Ben,!" she ejaculated, but
already in a cheerfuler tone of
voice. Sho hastily passed her hand
over her face as though she' would
smooth out the lines of care there,
for when ho palm was lowered to
Iter breast a youngish smile lighted
up her countenance. She ,watched
her husband coming home. "How
old he gits !"--There was a click in
her throat:
Windom indeed di.i appear old,
as he ,deseended the hill td the
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,wife Rini began to eat. ,
"WWII )1Q13 bed a leads tett' fer
yo'soif, 111'nrta " he suddenly Pitt,
"1.'ea," she [repeated, scornfull
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vby, saVp tea makes a boclyr
llei•vtltlS,, leo tea fer me while, F,t
get Adam's ate." In proof•of which
she .raised tho water -jug to lie"r lips,
and took a long draught.
Her husband lunched •his cake,:
his eyes lowered:
"Well 1" she said, when she hash
watched him for some time.
Ile frowned.
"Be'n to Lawyer Slam, 'Ben?"
'.Yes."
"Cain't do nothin'T"
"No."
"Well, don't you mind too rnuch;
I don't."
He turned a scrap of cake in hie
mouth as though" he could -not
swallow it. -
"Bat it means the porohouse,
Marian"
His head fell ..forward upon the
table. She clutched the sides of
her chair; she arose and went
around to hint, putting her arm
about his neck, laying her own gray '
head beside his.
"But we tins '11 be together, Ben;"
she whispered._"tillers,, together,.
lad. Don't mind too much, I
don't."
He raised one of his hands until
he caught her fingers, and .so he.
held theta tightly
She let him be until the fit had.
expendeff tlsoTf=ht was nothing
new; for more than a week he had
had those spells.
Tho red light came in at sho win-
dow and rested upon the two bowed
heads. Suddenly a sharp note
broke through the stillness.
"Whaton's that?" cried Windom,
jerking up ; "whatou's that ?"
"Why, Bon," said his wife, "how
starty y' are; it's the ole plan a-
con;;hin'. "pears you've heorod it -
often 'nough these two weeks to•
know it." -
"Two weeks! he be'n here that
long 1"
"Twas yes'day two weeks the
pore ole soul come'long—nigh 'on
to eighty, I should say. Think o''
him, Ben—ore; 'atone totterin'
to a stranger's door, dazed, childish,
• nigh starved, 'n' homeless. Hain t. -
no lot in life but it might be wuss ;
we uus is together, in our right
mind ; yon man's ole, alone, daft—"'
. "An' a pauper like we uns '11 be
in a month time."
"But together, Ben" she persist- ,
ed, using her all of comforting ar-
gutnent—so she always quieted
him.
' "An' what'll. become o' him.
then?" he demanded. -
"IIe won't be herethen, Ben."
"What you sayl"
"He's all wore out. I'd not be
sapprized to find pini slop' away any
mornin'. He's pow'fnl weak to-
day—iveakoh- 'n ever-- couldn't
hardly drink no sweet milk."
"Sweet milk! where'd you get
sweet milk at ?" .
A little warns color swept over
her face.
"I—ass Betty Mann for a drop
when I bought the cent's wuth •
buttermilk fer the cakes."
"Beggin' e" he said, sternly.
•"Not fer we uus," she denied—
"not fer We uns, on'y for thepore._.
ole ma•u. Wisht we knowed who
he woe," sho went on with, alacrity,
thus putting a stop to further • ex-
postulation ; "wish- we knowed
where lie's from. Haint there not
a soul in the whole world -that re-
members him 1"
"Who remembers anybody1" her
husband rejoined, bitterly. "What'd
nine hundred dollars be to' a. rich
man that spends that' much a day
ora month of he's a mind to? It'd
keepy ou 'n' me fer life, bridge over .
ev'rythin' toll uoxt season 'when
crops are bound to ho butter. Re-
member ! even; the Lord seams to
forgit His people that Ho made
sometimes.'
"Don't 1 don't 1" sho said pull-
ing at her apron -hem; my on'yi
comfort is knowin' you ansite's
allel:s together; of you don't.
b'lievo in the Lord -0 Ben 1 'u'd
you hey me go to Heaven by my
own self—no chick nor chile there,
on'y your mother 'n' father an' my'
mother 'n' father, an' all a-askin',
"Where is --him you lovedan'
cleaved to 1"
She mended the fire with soma •
pine knots and made it bright and
crackling, bending low over the
flame, so that hor husband might
not see hor face.
Then" she went and sat beside*
him, quiet, undemonstrative. Ali
at once he emote his knee.
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