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McCLURE'S MAGAZINE

MARCH, 1896.

VOL. VI. NO. 4.




TABLE OF CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Ida M. Tarbell.
Lincoln Is Admitted to the Bar.
Lincoln in the Tenth Assembly of Illinois.
The Removal of the Capital to Springfield.
Lincoln's First Reported Speech.
Abraham Lincoln's First Protest Against Slavery.
Social Life in Vandalia in 1836 and 1837.
Lincoln Moves to Springfield.
Lincoln's Position in Springfield.
THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF. By Rudyard Kipling.
A CENTURY OF PAINTING. By Will H. Low.
CY AND I. By Eugene Field.
A YOUNG HERO. By John Hay.
CHAPTERS FROM A LIFE. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
LOST YOUTH. By R.L. Stevenson.
THE DIVIDED HOUSE. By Julia D. Whiting.
SCIENTIFIC KITE-FLYING. By Cleveland Moffett.
How to Make a Scientific Kite.
How to Send Up a Kite.
Runaway Tandems.
The Lifting Power of Kites.
The Meteorological Use of Kites.
The Highest Flight Ever Made by a Kite.
Drawing Down Electricity by a Kite-string.
The Use of Kites in Photography.
Possible Use of Kites in War.
A DRAMATIC POINT. By Robert Barr.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
"Justice, Where Art Thou?"
"A Disgrace to Civilization."
The Real Lincoln.
Lincoln in 1860--J. Henry Brown's Journal.


ILLUSTRATIONS

LINCOLN IN 1860.
LINCOLN IN 1860.
EBENEZER PECK.
MEMBERS OF THE SANGAMON SOCIETY DELEGATION IN THE TENTH ILLINOIS
ASSEMBLY.
ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY.
LINCOLN IN 1863 OR 1864.
FRONTISPIECE OF "ALTON TRIALS," A SMALL VOLUME PUBLISHED IN 1838.
STUART AND LINCOLN'S PROFESSIONAL CARD.
OFFICE CHAIR FROM STUART AND LINCOLN'S LAW OFFICE.
STUART AND LINCOLN'S LAW OFFICE.
A STAGE-COACH ADVERTISEMENT, 1834.
MARY L. OWENS.
LINCOLN AND HIS SON THOMAS, FAMILIARLY KNOWN AS "TAD."
PAGE FROM STUART AND LINCOLN'S FEE BOOK.
OLD SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.
WILLIAM BUTLER.
INVITATION TO A SPRINGFIELD COTILLION PARTY.
MAP OF ILLINOIS.
THE WAVE "WENT OUT IN THREE SURGES, MAKING A CLEAN SWEEP OF A BOAT."
THE "DIMBULA" TAKING CARGO FOR HER FIRST VOYAGE.
"AN UNUSUALLY SEVERE PITCH ... HAD LIFTED THE BIG THROBBING SCREW
NEARLY TO THE SURFACE."
THE GARROTED MAN. FROM AN ETCHING BY GOYA.
DEATH ON THE BATTLE-FIELD. FROM AN ETCHING BY GOYA.
GOYA. FROM A PORTRAIT ETCHED BY HIMSELF.
ST. JUSTINA AND ST. RUFINA. FROM A PAINTING BY GOYA.
THE BLIND FIDDLER. FROM A PAINTING BY SIR DAVID WILKIE.
CHOOSING THE WEDDING GOWN. FROM A PAINTING BY WILLIAM MULREADY.
CONTRARY WINDS. FROM A PAINTING BY THOMAS WEBSTER.
SANCHO PANZA IN THE APARTMENT OF THE DUCHESS.
THE RAFT OF THE "MEDUSA." FROM A PAINTING BY GERICAULT.
INGRES. FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED BY HIMSELF.
DELACROIX. FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED BY HIMSELF IN 1837.
A PORTRAIT OF INGRES, DRAWN IN ROME IN 1816.
APOTHEOSIS OF HOMER. FROM A PAINTING BY INGRES.
THE SEIZURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE CRUSADERS.
DANTE AND VIRGIL CROSSING THE LAKE WHICH SURROUNDS THE INFERNAL
CITY OF DITE.
HENRY H. MILLER, A MEMBER OF THE ORGINAL COMPANY OF ELLSWORTH
ZOUAVES.
ELLSWORTH IN THE SPRING OF 1861.
ELLSWORTH IN 1860.
FRANK E. BROWNELL, WHO KILLED THE ASSASSIN OF COLONEL ELLSWORTH.
THE DEATH OF COLONEL ELLSWORTH.
THE MARSHALL HOUSE, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
COLONEL ELLSWORTH AND A GROUP OF MILITIA OFFICERS.
"THE OLD BRICK ACADEMY," PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ANDOVER, MASSACUSETTS.
ABBOT ACADEMY, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS.
"THE STONE BUILDING," PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS.
THE HOUSE IN ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS, CONTAINING THE SCHOOL CALLED
"THE NUNNERY."
HENRY MILLS ALDEN, EDITOR OF "HARPER'S MAGAZINE."
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN.
"THE DOCTOR DON'T SEEM TO THINK I SHALL TUCKER IT OUT MUCH LONGER."
THE DIVIDED HOUSE.
"AS ARMIDA SAT ON THE BENCH UNDER THE OLD RUSSET APPLE-TREE, ..."
EVENING IN THE DIVIDED KITCHEN.
"LOOKING BEFORE THEM THEY COULD SEE BOTH HUSBAND AND WIFE MOTIONLESS
IN THE ROAD."
HARGRAVE LIFTED SIXTEEN FEET FROM THE GROUND BY A TANDEM OF HIS
BOX-KITES.
FRANKFORT STREET. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW FROM A KITE.
FRANKFORT STREET. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW FROM A KITE. (ANOTHER VIEW.)
THE EDDY TAILLESS KITE.
THE HARGRAVE BOX-KITE.
NEW YORK, EAST RIVER, BROOKLYN, AND NEW YORK BAY, FROM A KITE.
PHOTOGRAPHING FROM A KITE-LINE.
CITY HALL PARK AND BROADWAY FROM A KITE.
MURRAY AND WARREN STREETS, NEW YORK CITY, FROM A KITE.
KITE-DRAWN BUOY.
DIRIGIBLE KITE-DRAWN BUOY.
THE KITE-BUOY IN SERVICE.
"MY GOD!--YOU WERE RIGHT--AFTER ALL."




[Illustration: LINCOLN IN 1860.--HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.

From an ambrotype taken in Springfield, Illinois, on August 13, 1860,
and now owned by Mr. William H. Lambert of Philadelphia, through
whose courtesy we are allowed to reproduce it here. This ambrotype was
bought by Mr. Lambert from Mr. W.P. Brown of Philadelphia. Mr. Brown
writes of the portrait: "This picture, along with another one of the
same kind, was presented by President Lincoln to my father, J. Henry
Brown, deceased (miniature artist), after he had finished painting
Lincoln's picture on ivory, at Springfield, Illinois. The commission
was given my father by Judge Read (John M. Read of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania), immediately after Lincoln's nomination for the
Presidency. One of the ambrotypes I sold to the Historical Society
of Boston, Massachusetts, and it is now in their possession." The
miniature referred to is now owned by Mr. Robert T. Lincoln. It
was engraved by Samuel Sartain, and circulated widely before the
inauguration. After Mr. Lincoln grew a beard, Sartain put a beard on
his plate, and the engraving continued to sell extensively. While Mr.
Brown was in Springfield painting the miniature he kept a journal,
which Mr. Lambert also owns and which he has generously put at our
disposal. It will be found on page 400.]




McCLURE'S MAGAZINE.


VOL. VI. MARCH, 1896. No. 4.




ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

BY IDA M. TARBELL.

LINCOLN'S ELECTION TO THE TENTH ASSEMBLY.--ADMISSION TO THE
BAR.--REMOVAL TO SPRINGFIELD.


The first twenty-six years of Abraham Lincoln's life have been traced
in the preceding chapters. We have seen him struggling to escape
from the lot of a common farm laborer, to which he seemed to be born;
becoming a flatboatman, a grocery clerk, a store-keeper, a postmaster,
and finally a surveyor. We have traced his efforts to rise above
the intellectual apathy and the indifference to culture which
characterized the people among whom he was reared, by studying with
eagerness every subject on which he could find books,--biography,
state history, mathematics, grammar, surveying, and finally law. We
have followed his growth in ambition and in popularity from the day
when, on a keg in an Indiana grocery, he debated the contents of the
Louisville "Journal" with a company of admiring elders, to the
time when, purely because he was liked, he was elected to the State
Assembly of Illinois by the people of Sangamon County. His joys and
sorrows have been reviewed from his childhood in Kentucky to the day
of the death of the woman he loved and had hoped to make his wife.
These twenty-six years form the first period of Lincoln's life. It was
a period of makeshifts and experiments, ending in a tragic sorrow;
but at its close he had definite aims, and preparation and experience
enough to convince him that he dared follow them. Law and politics
were the fields he had chosen, and in the first year of the second
period of his life, 1836, he entered them definitely.

The Ninth General Assembly of Illinois, in which Lincoln had done his
preparatory work as a legislator, was dissolved, and in June, 1836,
he announced himself as a candidate for the Tenth Assembly. A few days
later the "Sangamon Journal" published his simple platform:

NEW SALEM, _June 13, 1836_.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'JOURNAL':

"In your paper of last Saturday I see a communication over the
signature of 'Many Voters,' in which the candidates who are
announced in the 'Journal' are called upon to 'show their
hands.' Agreed. Here's mine:

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government
who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for
admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or
bear arms (by no means excluding females).

If elected, I shall consider the whole people of Sangamon my
constituents, as well those that oppose as those that support
me.

While acting as their representative, I shall be governed
by their will on all subjects upon which I have the means of
knowing what their will is; and upon all others, I shall
do what my own judgment teaches me will best advance their
interests. Whether elected or not, I go for distributing the
proceeds of the sales of public lands to the several States,
to enable our State, in common with others, to dig canals and
construct railroads without borrowing money and paying the
interest on it.

"If alive on the first Monday in November, I shall vote for
Hugh L. White for President.

"Very respectfully,
"A. LINCOLN."

The campaign which Lincoln began with this letter was in every way
more exciting for him than those of 1832 and 1834. Since the last
election a census had been taken in Illinois which showed so large
an increase in the population that the legislative districts had been
reapportioned and the General Assembly increased by fifty members. In
this reapportionment Sangamon County's delegation had been enlarged
to seven representatives and two senators. This gave large new
opportunity to political ambition, and doubled the enthusiasm of
political meetings.

But the increase of the representation was not all that made the
campaign exciting. Party lines had never before been so clearly drawn,
nor personal abuse quite so intense. One of Lincoln's first acts was
to answer a personal attack. He did it in a letter marked by candor,
good-humor, and shrewdness.

"NEW SALEM, _June 21, 1836_.
"DEAR COLONEL:

"I am told that during my absence last week you passed through
the place and stated publicly that you were in possession of
a fact or facts which, if known to the public, would entirely
destroy the prospects of N.W. Edwards and myself at the
ensuing election; but that through favor to us you would
forbear to divulge them. No one has needed favors more than I,
and generally few have been less unwilling to accept them; but
in this case favor to me would be injustice to the public, and
therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it. That I
once had the confidence of the people of Sangamon County is
sufficiently evident; and if I have done anything, either by
design or misadventure, which if known would subject me to a
forfeiture of that confidence, he that knows of that thing and
conceals it is a traitor to his country's interest.

"I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what
fact or facts, real or supposed, you spoke; but my opinion of
your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that
you at least believed what you said. I am flattered with the
personal regard you manifested for me; but I do hope that
on mature reflection you will view the public interest as a
paramount consideration and therefore let the worst come.

"I assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part,
however low it may sink me, shall never break the ties of
personal friendship between us.

"I wish an answer to this, and you are at liberty to publish
both if you choose.

"Very respectfully,
"A. LINCOLN."

"COLONEL ROBERT ALLEN."

Usually during the campaign Lincoln was obliged to meet personal
attacks, not by letter, but on the platform. Joshua Speed, who later
became the most intimate friend that Lincoln probably ever had, tells
of one occasion when he was obliged to meet such an attack on the
very spur of the moment. A great mass-meeting was in progress at
Springfield, and Lincoln had made a speech which had produced a deep
impression. "I was then fresh from Kentucky," says Mr. Speed, "and had
heard many of her great orators. It seemed to me then, as it seems to
me now, that I never heard a more effective speaker. He carried the
crowd with him, and swayed them as he pleased. So deep an impression
did he make that George Forquer, a man of much celebrity as a
sarcastic speaker and with a great reputation throughout the State
as an orator, rose and asked the people to hear _him_. He began his
speech by saying that this young man would have to be taken down, and
he was sorry that the task devolved upon him. He made what was called
one of his 'slasher-gaff' speeches, dealing much in ridicule
and sarcasm. Lincoln stood near him, with his arms folded, never
interrupting him. When Forquer was done, Lincoln walked to the stand,
and replied so fully and completely that his friends bore him from the
court-house on their shoulders.

"So deep an impression did this first speech make upon me that I
remember its conclusion now, after a lapse of thirty-eight years. Said
he:

"'The gentleman commenced his speech by saying that this young man
would have to be taken down, and he was sorry the task devolved upon
him. I am not so young in years as I am in the tricks and trade of a
politician; but live long or die young, I would rather die now than,
like the gentleman, change my politics and simultaneous with the
change receive an office worth three thousand dollars a year, and
then have to erect a lightning-rod over my house to protect a guilty
conscience from an offended God.'

"To understand the point of this it must be explained that Forquer
had been a Whig, but had changed his politics, and had been appointed
Register of the Land Office; and over his house was the only
lightning-rod in the town or country. Lincoln had seen the
lightning-rod for the first time on the day before."

[Illustration: LINCOLN IN 1860.--HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.

From a carbon enlargement, made by Sherman and McHugh of New York
City, of an ambrotype owned by Mr. A. Montgomery of Columbus, Ohio,
to whose generosity we owe the right of reproduction. This portrait
of Lincoln was made in June, 1860, by Butler, a Springfield (Illinois)
photographer. On July 4th of that year, Mr. Lincoln delivered an
address at Atlanta, Illinois, where he was the guest of Mr. Vester
Strong. Before leaving town he handed Mr. Strong the ambrotype which
we copy here. Mr. Strong valued the picture highly, but as he had no
children to whom to leave it, and as he wished it to be in the care of
one who would appreciate its value, he gave it a few years ago to Mr.
Montgomery.]

This speech has never been forgotten in Springfield, and on my visits
there I have repeatedly had the site of the house on which this
particular lightning-rod was placed pointed out, and one or another of
the many versions which the story has been given, related to me.

It was the practice at that date in Illinois for two rival candidates
to travel over the district together. The custom led to much
good-natured raillery between them; and in such contests Lincoln was
rarely, if ever, worsted. He could even turn the generosity of his
rival to account by his whimsical treatment, as the following shows:
He had driven out from Springfield in company with a political
opponent to engage in joint debate. The carriage, it seems, belonged
to his opponent. In addressing the gathering of farmers that met them,
Lincoln was lavish in praise of the generosity of his friend. "I am
too poor to own a carriage," he said, "but my friend has generously
invited me to ride with him. I want you to vote for me if you will;
but if not, then vote for my opponent, for he is a fine man." His
extravagant and persistent praise of his opponent appealed to the
sense of humor in his farmer audience, to whom Lincoln's inability to
own a carriage was by no means a disqualification.[1]

The election came off in August, and resulted in the choice of a
delegation from Sangamon County famous in the annals of Illinois. The
nine successful candidates were Abraham Lincoln, John Dawson, Daniel
Stone, Ninian W. Edwards, William F. Elkins, R.L. Wilson, Andrew
McCormick, Job Fletcher, and Arthur Herndon. Each one of these men
was over six feet in height, their combined stature being, it is said,
fifty-five feet. The "Long Nine" was the name Sangamon County gave
them.

[Illustration: EBENEZER PECK.

Ebenezer Peck, who was chiefly instrumental in introducing the
convention system into Illinois politics, was born in Portland, Maine,
May 22, 1805. He lived for some time in Peacham, Vermont, where he
was educated. While yet a boy, removed with his parents to Canada. He
studied law at Montreal, and practised there; became King's Counsel
for Canada East, and was finally elected to the provincial parliament
on the Reform ticket. In the summer of 1835 he removed to Chicago, and
there, as a lawyer and a politician, he at once made his mark. He was
a delegate to the first Democratic State convention in Illinois,
held at Vandalia, December 7, 1835, and was the chief advocate of the
general adoption of the convention system--a system which was at first
opposed and ridiculed by the Whigs, but which very soon they were
forced to adopt. In 1837 Mr. Peck was made one of the Internal
Improvement Commissioners. In 1838 he was elected to the State Senate,
and in 1840 to the House. He was clerk of the Supreme Court from
1841 to 1848, and reporter of that court from 1849 to 1863. His
anti-slavery sentiments led him to abandon the Democratic party in
1853, and in 1856 he helped establish the Republican party in the
State. He was again elected to the legislature in 1858. In 1863
President Lincoln appointed him a judge of the Court of Claims, and
he held this position until 1875. He died May 25, 1881.--_J. McCan
Davis._]


LINCOLN IS ADMITTED TO THE BAR.

As soon as the election was over Lincoln occupied himself in settling
another matter, of much greater moment, in his own judgment. He went
to Springfield to seek admission to the bar. The "roll of attorneys
and counsellors at law," on file in the office of the clerk of the
Supreme Court at Springfield, Illinois, shows that his license was
dated September 9, 1836, and that the date of the enrollment of his
name upon the official list was March 1, 1837. The first case in which
he was concerned, as far as we know, was that of Hawthorn against
Woolridge. He made his first appearance in court in October, 1836.

Although he had given much time during this year to politics and the
law, he had by no means abandoned surveying. Indeed he never had
more calls. Surveying was particularly brisk at the moment, and he
frequently was obliged to be away for three and four weeks at a time,
laying out towns or locating roads. "When he got a job," says the Hon.
J.M. Ruggles, a friend and political supporter of Mr. Lincoln, "there
was a picnic and jolly time in the neighborhood. Men and boys would
gather around, ready to carry chain, drive stakes, and blaze trees,
but mainly to hear Lincoln's odd stories and jokes. The fun was
interspersed with foot races and wrestling matches. To this day the
old settlers around Bath repeat the incidents of Lincoln's sojourns in
their neighborhood while surveying that town."

[Illustration: NINIAN W. EDWARDS., JOB FLETCHER, SR.,
WILLIAM F. ELKINS., ROBERT L. WILSON., JOHN DAWSON.

MEMBERS OF THE SANGAMON COUNTY DELEGATION IN THE TENTH ILLINOIS
ASSEMBLY--THE DELEGATION KNOWN AS THE "LONG NINE."

NINIAN W. EDWARDS was born in Kentucky in 1809, a son of Ninian
Edwards, who in the same year was appointed Governor of the new
Territory of Illinois. Mr. Edwards was appointed Attorney-General
of Illinois in 1834; in 1836 was elected to the legislature; was
reelected in 1838; served in the State Senate from 1844 to 1848,
and again in the House from 1848 to 1852. He was a member of the
constitutional convention of 1847. He died at Springfield, September
2, 1889.

JOB FLETCHER, SR., was born in Virginia in 1793; removed to Sangamon
County, Illinois, in 1819. In 1826 he was elected to the Illinois
House of Representatives, and in 1834 to the State Senate, where he
served six years. He died in Sangamon County in 1872.

WILLIAM F. ELKINS was born in Kentucky in 1792. He went to Sangamon
County, Illinois, in 1825. In 1828, 1836, and 1838 he was elected to
the legislature. In 1831 he raised a company for the Black Hawk War,
and was its captain. In 1861 President Lincoln appointed him Register
of the United States Land Office at Springfield, an office which he
held until 1872, when he resigned. He died at Decatur, Illinois, 1880.

ROBERT LANG WILSON was born in Pennsylvania in 1805. In 1831 he went
to Kentucky; in 1833 removed to Sangamon County, Illinois; in 1836 was
elected to the Illinois House. He removed to Sterling, Illinois, in
1840, and died there in 1880. For some years he was paymaster in the
United States Army.

JOHN DAWSON was born in Virginia in 1791; he removed to Sangamon
County, Illinois, in 1827. He was elected to the lower house of the
legislature in 1830, 1834, 1836, 1838, and 1846. He was a member of
the constitutional convention of 1847. He died November 12, 1850.

The other members of the "Long Nine" were Abraham Lincoln, Daniel
Stone, Andrew McCormick, and Arthur Herndon.]


LINCOLN IN THE TENTH ASSEMBLY OF ILLINOIS

In December Lincoln put away his surveying instruments to go to
Vandalia for the opening session of the Tenth Assembly. Larger by
fifty members than its predecessor, this body was as much superior
in intellect as in numbers. It included among its members a future
President of the United States, a future candidate for the same high
office, six future United States Senators, eight future members of the
National House of Representatives, a future Secretary of the Interior,
and three future Judges of the State Supreme Court. Here sat side by
side Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas; Edward Dickinson Baker,
who represented at different times the States of Illinois and Oregon
in the national councils; O.H. Browning, a prospective senator and
future cabinet officer, and William L.D. Ewing, who had just served
in the senate; John Logan, father of the late General John A.
Logan; Robert M. Cullom, father of Senator Shelby M. Cullom; John
A. McClernand, afterward member of Congress for many years, and
a distinguished general in the late Civil War; and many others of
national repute.[2]

[Illustration: ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY.

From a silhouette loaned by Mr. Owen Lovejoy of Princeton, Illinois.
Elijah Lovejoy was born in Maine in 1802. When twenty-five years old
he emigrated to St. Louis, where he at first did journalistic work on
a Whig newspaper. In 1833 he entered the ministry, and was soon after
made editor of a religious newspaper, the "St. Louis Observer." Mr.
Lovejoy began, in 1835, to turn his paper against slavery, but the
opposition he found in Missouri was so strong that in the summer of
1836 he decided to move his paper to Alton, Illinois. Before he could
get his plant out of St. Louis a mob destroyed the greater part. The
remainder he succeeded in getting to Alton, but a mob met it there and
threw it into the river. The citizens of Alton, ashamed of this act,
gave Mr. Lovejoy money to buy a new press. At first the tone of
the paper was moderate, but gradually it grew more emphatic in its
utterances against slavery. The pro-slavery element of the town
protested, indignation meetings were held, and in August, 1837, his
press was thrown into the river. Another was immediately bought,
which, in September, followed its predecessor to the bottom of the
Mississippi. When it was known in Alton that Mr. Lovejoy had ordered
a fourth press, and had resolved to fight the opposition to the end,
a public meeting was called, at which many speeches were made on both
sides, and he was urged to leave Alton. This he refused to do, and
his fourth press was landed on November 6, 1837. The next night a mob
attacked the warehouse where it was placed, and in the riot one of the
assailants, Lyman Bishop, and Elijah Lovejoy himself were killed.]

The members came to Vandalia full of hope and exultation. In their
judgment it needed only a few months of legislation to put their State
by the side of New York; and from the opening of the session they were
overflowing with excitement and schemes. In the general ebullition of
spirits which characterized the Assembly, Lincoln had little share.
Only a week after the opening of the session he wrote to a friend,
Mary Owens, at New Salem, that he had been ill, though he believed
himself to be about well then; and he added: "But that, with other
things I cannot account for, have conspired, and have gotten my
spirits so low that I feel I would rather be any place in the world
than here. I really cannot endure the thought of staying here ten
weeks."

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