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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Bad Child's Book of Beasts + +Author: Hilaire Belloc + +Illustrator: Ian Basil Gawaine Temple, Lord. Blackwood + +Release Date: November 6, 2008 [EBook #27175] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS *** + + + + +Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, some images +courtesy of The Internet Archive and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 563px;"> +<img src="images/i_cover.jpg" width="563" height="700" alt="Title page" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h1>THE<br />BAD CHILD'S<br />BOOK OF<br />BEASTS</h1> + +<h3>Verses by</h3> +<h2>H. BELLOC</h2> + +<h3>Pictures by</h3> +<h2>B. T. B.</h2> + +<div class='center'>DUCKWORTH,<br /> +3 <span class="smcap">Henrietta Street, Covent Garden</span> +<br /><br /><br /></div> + +<div class='poem'> +Child! do not throw this book about;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Refrain from the unholy pleasure</span><br /> +Of cutting all the pictures out!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.</span><br /> +<br /> +Child, have you never heard it said<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That you are heir to all the ages?</span><br /> +Why, then, your hands were never made<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To tear these beautiful thick pages!</span><br /> +<br /> +Your little hands were made to take<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The better things and leave the worse ones.</span><br /> +They also may be used to shake<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The Massive Paws of Elder Persons.</span><br /> +<br /> +And when your prayers complete the day,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Darling, your little tiny hands</span><br /> +Were also made, I think, to pray<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For men that lose their fairylands.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br /><br /> +<small><i>Made and Printed in Great Britain by The Camelot Press Limited, London and Southampton</i></small><br /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3>DEDICATION</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 90px;"> +<img src="images/divider.png" width="90" height="6" alt="Divider" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'> +To<br /> +<big>Master EVELYN BELL</big><br /> +<big>Of Oxford</big><br /> +<br /> +Evelyn Bell,<br /> +I love you well.<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[157]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 413px;"> +<img src="images/i_006.png" width="413" height="500" alt="beasts" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>INTRODUCTION</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">I call</span> you bad, my little child,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Upon the title page,</span><br /> +Because a manner rude and wild<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Is common at your age.</span><br /> +<br /> +The Moral of this priceless work<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(If rightly understood)</span><br /> +Will make you—from a little Turk—<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[158]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Unnaturally good.</span><br /> +<br /> +Do not as evil children do,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Who on the slightest grounds</span><br /> +Will imitate </div><div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;"> + +<img src="images/i_008.png" width="445" height="300" alt="Kangaroo" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'><span style="margin-left: 7em;">the Kangaroo,</span><br /> +With wild unmeaning bounds:<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[159]</a></span></p> +<div class='poem'> +Do not as children badly bred,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Who eat like little Hogs,</span><br /> +And when they have to go to bed<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Will whine like Puppy Dogs:</span><br /> +<br /> +Who take their manners from the Ape,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Their habits from the Bear,</span><br /> +Indulge the loud unseemly jape,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[160]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And never brush their hair.</span><br /> +<br /> +But so control your actions that<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Your friends may all repeat.</span><br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i_010.png" width="400" height="221" alt="Child is dainty" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +'This child is dainty as the Cat,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And as the Owl discreet.'</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Yak</h2> + + + +<div class='poem'> +As a friend to the children<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i_011.png" width="400" height="327" alt="Yak" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 9.5em;">commend me the Yak.</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">You will find it exactly the thing:</span><br /> +It will carry and fetch,<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/i_012.png" width="350" height="202" alt="Carry and fetch" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 9em;">you can ride on its back,</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[163]</a></span> +Or lead it about<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i_013.png" width="400" height="171" alt="Leading it about with a string" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 9em;">with a string.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a></span></p> + +<div class='poem'> +The Tartar who dwells on the plains of Thibet<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(A desolate region of snow)</span><br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i_014.png" width="400" height="193" alt="A pet in Thibet" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +Has for centuries made it a nursery pet,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And surely the Tartar should know!</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[165]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='poem'> +Then tell your papa where the Yak can be got,<br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i_015.png" width="400" height="236" alt="Where a yak can be got" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And if he is awfully rich</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[166]</a></span>He will buy you the creature—<br /> +or else<br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 257px;"> +<img src="images/i_016.png" width="257" height="300" alt="Father and son" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 12em;">he will <i>not</i>.</span><br /> +(I cannot be positive which.)<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Polar Bear</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +The Polar Bear is unaware<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 425px;"> +<img src="images/i_017.png" width="425" height="217" alt="The polar bear" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of cold that cuts me through:</span><br /> +For why? He has a coat of hair.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I wish I had one too!</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[168]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Lion</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +The Lion, the Lion, he dwells in the waste,<br /> +He has a big head and a very small waist;<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/i_018.png" width="350" height="210" alt="The lion" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +But his shoulders are stark, and his jaws they are grim,<br /> +And a good little child will not play with him.<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Tiger</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +The Tiger on the other hand,</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/i_019a.png" width="350" height="124" alt="The tiger" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 12em;">is kittenish and mild,</span><br /> +He makes a pretty playfellow for any little child;<br /> +And mothers of large families (who claim to common sense)<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/i_019b.png" width="350" height="102" alt="The tiger again" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +Will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and expense.<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[170]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Dromedary</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +The Dromedary is a cheerful bird:<br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/i_020.png" width="350" height="336" alt="Dromedary" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +I cannot say the same about the Kurd.<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[171]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Whale</h2> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 425px;"> +<img src="images/i_021.png" width="425" height="244" alt="The whale" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[172]</a></span>The Whale that wanders round the Pole<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Is not</span></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 425px;"> +<img src="images/i_022.png" width="425" height="247" alt="Whale is not a table dish" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'><span style="margin-left: 10em;">a table fish.</span><br /> +You cannot bake or boil him whole<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Nor serve him in a dish;</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[173]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i_023.png" width="450" height="243" alt="Cut his blubber up" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +But you may cut his blubber up<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;">And melt it down for oil.</span><br /> +And so replace</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/i_024.png" width="300" height="231" alt="Oil for light" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 10em;">the colza bean</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(A product of the soil).</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[175]</a></span></p> + +<div class='poem'> +These facts should all be noted down<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And ruminated on,</span><br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/i_025.png" width="350" height="264" alt="Be ruminated on" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +By every boy in Oxford town<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Who wants to be a Don.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[176]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Camel</h2> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 425px;"> +<img src="images/i_026.png" width="425" height="317" alt="Camel" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'> +"The Ship of the Desert."<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[177]</a></span></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Hippopotamus</h2> + + + + +<div class='poem'> +I shoot the Hippopotamus<br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i_027.png" width="400" height="186" alt="Shot hippo" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[178]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">with bullets made of platinum,</span><br /> +Because if I use leaden ones<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i_028.png" width="450" height="264" alt="Flatten 'em" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">his hide is sure to flatten 'em.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="The Dodo illustration and title"> +<tr><td align='left'><h2>The</h2></td><td align='left'><img src="images/i_029a.png" width="300" height="328" alt="The Dodo" title="" /> +</td><td align='left'><h2>Dodo</h2></td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i_029b.png" width="450" height="281" alt="The Island" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a></span>The Dodo used<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;"> to walk around,</span><br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 425px;"> +<img src="images/i_030.png" width="425" height="159" alt="Dodo walking around" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And take the sun and air.</span><br /> +The sun yet warms his native ground—<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span></p> + +<div class='center'> +The Dodo is not there!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 425px;"> +<img src="images/i_031.png" width="425" height="164" alt="Dodo is not there" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +The voice which used to squawk and squeak<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Is now for ever dumb—</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a></span></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i_032.png" width="400" height="271" alt="In a museum" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +Yet may you see his bones and beak<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">All in the Mu-se-um.</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[183]</a></span></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Marmozet</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +The species Man and Marmozet<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Are intimately linked;</span><br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/i_033.png" width="300" height="216" alt="Marmozet" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +The Marmozet survives as yet,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But Men are all extinct.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[184]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Camelopard</h2> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 214px;"> +<img src="images/i_034.png" width="214" height="450" alt="The camelopard" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +The Camelopard, it is said<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[185]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">By travellers (who never lie),</span><br /> +He cannot stretch out straight in bed<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Because he is so high.</span><br /> +The clouds surround his lofty head,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">His hornlets touch the sky.</span><br /> +</div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Camelopard illustration and stanza of poem"> +<tr><td align='right' valign='top'>How shall<br /> +I hunt<br /> +I </td><td align='center'><img src="images/i_035.png" width="300" height="400" alt="Hunting the camelopard" title="" /> +</td><td align='left' valign='top'><br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;"> this quadruped?</span><br /> +cannot tell!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Not I!</span></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='poem'> +(A picture of how people try<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[186]</a></span>And fail to hit that head so high.)<br /> +<br />I'll buy a little parachute<br /> +(A common parachute with wings),<br /> +I'll fill it full of arrowroot<br /> +And other necessary things,<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 265px;"> +<img src="images/i_036.png" width="265" height="350" alt="Camelopard running" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +And I will slay this fearful brute<br /> +With stones and sticks and guns and slings.<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[187]</a></span></p> + +<div class='poem'> +(A picture of </div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 227px;"> +<img src="images/i_037.png" width="227" height="250" alt="Parachute and wings" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'><span style="margin-left: 7em;">how people shoot</span><br /> +With comfort from a parachute.)<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Learned Fish</h2> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 328px;"> +<img src="images/i_038.png" width="328" height="400" alt="The Learned Fish" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +This learned Fish has not sufficient brains<br /> +To go into the water when it rains.<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></span></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Elephant</h2> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/i_039.png" width="300" height="291" alt="The Elephant" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span>When people call this beast to mind,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">They marvel more and more</span><br /> +At such a </div> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left' valign='bottom'> </td><td align='left'><img src="images/i_040a.png" width="179" height="250" alt="Tail" title="" /> +<br /><span class="smcap"><i>little</i></span> tail behind,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left' valign='bottom'><img src="images/i_040b.png" width="195" height="250" alt="Trunk" title="" /> +<br />So <i>LARGE</i> a trunk before.</td></tr></table></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 179px;"> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[191]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Big Baboon</h2> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/i_041.png" width="300" height="241" alt="The Big Baboon" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +The Big Baboon is found upon<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;">The plains of Cariboo:</span><br /> +He goes about<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/i_042.png" width="300" height="160" alt="With nothing on" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">with nothing on</span><br /> +(A shocking thing to do).<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[193]</a></span></p> + + + +<div class='poem'> +But if he<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i_043.png" width="400" height="195" alt="Dressed respectfully" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">dressed respectably</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[194]</a></span>And let his whiskers grow,<br /> +How like this Big Baboon would be<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i_044.png" width="400" height="211" alt="Like Mr. So-and-So" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='center'> +To Mister So-and-so!<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[195]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Rhinoceros</h2> + + + + +<div class='poem'> +Rhinoceros, your hide looks all undone,<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i_045.png" width="450" height="189" alt="The Rhinoceros" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +You do not take my fancy in the least:<br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i_046.png" width="450" height="239" alt="You have a horn" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[196]</a></span>You have a horn where other brutes have none:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Rhinoceros, you are an ugly beast.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[197]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Frog</h2> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 260px;"> +<img src="images/i_047.png" width="260" height="350" alt="The Frog" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[198]</a></span>Be kind and tender to the Frog,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And do not call him names,</span><br /> +As 'Slimy skin,' or 'Polly-wog,'<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Or likewise 'Ugly James,'</span><br /> +Or 'Gap-a-grin,' or 'Toad-gone-wrong,'<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Or 'Bill Bandy-knees':</span><br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i_048.png" width="450" height="283" alt="The frog is sensitive" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +The Frog is justly sensitive<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">To epithets like these.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[199]</a></span></p> + +<div class='poem'> +No animal will more repay<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">A treatment kind and fair;</span><br /> +At least<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i_049.png" width="450" height="272" alt="Or so lonely people say" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 5em;">so lonely people say</span><br /> +Who keep a frog (and, by the way,<br /> +They are extremely rare).<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[200]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 322px;"> +<img src="images/i_050.png" width="322" height="400" alt="Oh! 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