CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH “FOREIGN LANDS WHERE WONDERS ARE” A READING LIST FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Reprinted from the Monthly Bulletin, November ign PITTSBURGH CARNEGIE LIBRARY 1912 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates https://archive.org/details/foreignlandswherOOcarn \J ^0 x (j> T b'W ‘‘Foreign Lands Where Wonders Are” A Reading List for Children and Young People Books for the Younger Children “You have seen the scarlet trees And the lions over seas; You have eaten ostrich eggs, And turned the turtles off their legs. Such a life is very fine, But it’s not so nice as mine: * * * * You have curious things to eat, I am fed on proper meat.” Stevenson. Andrews, Jane. jgio As6e Each and all. Stories of little girls living in different parts of the world. Sequel to “Seven little sisters.” Andrews, Jane. jgio A56S Seven little sisters who live on the round ball that floats in the air. The seven little sisters are, the little brown baby; Agoonack, the Eskimo sister; ^ Gemila, the child of the desert; Jeanette, the Swiss maiden; Pense, the Chinese girl; Manenko, the little dark girl; Louise, the child of the beautiful Rhine. Chance, L. M. jgio C36 Little folks of many lands. 4 Contents: Yaba, the Indian girl. — Ikwa, the Eskimo boy. — Mina, the Holland girl. — Osom, the African boy. — Ahmed, the Arabian boy. — Tona, the Filipino girl. — Matsu, the Japanese girl. Coburn, C. M. jg 14.85 C63 Our little Swedish cousin. Some Stockholm children take part in a skating carnival, a midsummer’s eve festival, a name-day party and in the preparations and festivities of Christmas, visit their grand- mother in the country, take a trip through the Gota canal and spend a day in the famous park, Skansen, near Stockholm. Dutton, M. B. jgio Dg5 In field and pasture. Contents: White Cloud, the little Pueblo girl. — Pepy and Athor, children of the Nile valley. — Hare Track, the Navajo boy. — Bumo and Bu, children of Tibet. — Jose, who lived on the wonderful island. — Ivan and Olga, children of Russia. — Children of the land of the midnight sun. — Pierre and Violette, children of the Alps. Haines, A. C. qjHisij Japanese child life. Colored pictures, stories and verses illustrating games, occupations and amusements of little Japanese children. Headland, I. T. jgis-i H38 Chinese boy and girl. Nursery rhymes, finger plays, toys, games, magic blocks, juggling, folk tales and daily life of Chinese children. Headland, I. T. jgis.i H380 Our little Chinese cousin. Tells of the childhood of Chenchu, a little Chinese girl, and how she escaped having her feet bound. Illustrated with photographs and Chinese drawings. 3 4 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH McManus, Blanche, afterward Mrs Mansfield. ^915.3 M21 Our little Arabian cousin. “Tells of the comings and goings of two little children of the desert; how they lived their lives; their plays and games; and many of the curious sights they saw as they travelled about with their parents, on one occasion visiting the great city of Medina.” Preface. Moncrieff, A. R. H. qjgio M81 Round the world. Picture-book with easy reading telling about children in Holland, Belgium, France, Egypt, Malta, China, South America, India, Lapland, Macedonia, Canada, the Tyrol, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Fiji islands, etc. Mott, S. M. & Dutton, M. B. j9io M94 Fishing and hunting. Tells how the little Eskimo boy lives. Also of Red Feather, the Indian boy; of Tondo, the Filipino; and of Ola, the little Indian girl who lived in Alaska. Murray, Clara. j 372*4 M97W3 Wide awake third reader. Many of the stories tell about little children in other lands and how they live. Partial contents: Dutch children. — Children of a sunny land. — The little goatherds. — The eve of St. Nicholas. — “The little Turkeys.” — Children of Armenia. — Eskimo children. — A trip to Japan. Nixon, M. F. afterward Mrs Roulet. jgi8.i N37 Our little Brazilian cousin. Same as her “Affonzo, our little Brazilian cousin.” About the home life of Affonzo on a Brazilian plantation, visits to Para and Rio de Janeiro and a journey to the “land of the missiones” and the falls of Iguazu. Contains the story of the Gilded Man. Peary, Mrs Josephine (Diebitsch). qj'919.8 P353S Snow baby. Little Marie Ahnighito Peary was born near the North pole. Her mother tells of the “great night” into which she came, of the strange little brown people dressed in the skins of animals, and of the wonderful land of mountains, glaciers and icebergs. Many pictures of the Arctic regions. Peary, M. A. & Peary, Mrs Josephine (Diebitsch). qj9i9.8 P353C Children of the Arctic. Story of a year spent with icebergs and great ice-fields, glaciers, polar bears and Eskimo children by the “Snow baby” when four years old. Peary, R. E. & Peary, M. A. qjgi9.8 P35 Snowland folk; the Eskimos, the bears, the dogs, the musk oxen and other dwellers in the frozen North. Large print. Many pictures from photographs and drawings. Perry, F. P. jP4442t Tora’s happy day. What a little Japanese boy did one day in the time of cherry blossoms. Colored pictures after the Japanese. Schwartz, J. A. j 9 10 S39 Five little strangers. Stories of the Indian, the Chinese, the negro, the white child and the Filipino; what their homes and lives were like in the countries they came from and how they each came to live in America. Shaw, E. R. j 39 ° S53 Big people and little people of other lands. About the dress, appearance and ways of living of the big and little people of China. Arabia, Lapland, Patagonia, Russia, Holland and other far-off lands. “FOREIGN LANDS WHERE WONDERS ARE” 5 Smith, M. E. E. jgig.8 S65 Eskimo stories. Pictures and stories of little Eskimos; how they live, what they eat and how they play. Wade, M. H. ' jgi 4 . 3 W11 Our little German cousin. Same as her “Bertha, our little German cousin.” Contents: Christmas. — Toy-making. — The wicked bishop. — The coffee-party. — The great Frederick. — The brave princess. — What the waves bring. — The magic sword. Wade, M. H. jgig.i 4 Wn Our little Philippine cousin. Life of a little Filipino boy, Alila of Luzon. Tells about his first party, the build- ing of the house, the buffalo hunt, tapping for tuba, etc. Wade, M. H. jgis.g Wn Our little Siamese cousin. “Let us... take part in the games and sports of the children of Siam. We will attend some of their festivals, take a peep into the royal palace, enter the temples, and learn something about the ways and habits of that far-away eastern country.” Preface. Other “little cousin” stories are, “Our little Alaskan cousin,” “Our little Armenian cousin,” “Our little brown cousin,” “Our little Cuban cousin,” “Our little Hindu cousin,” “Our little Italian cousin,” “Our little Panama cousin.” Books for Boys and Girls (Nine or Ten to Twelve or Fourteen Years of Age ) “Where gloomy mountain caverns hold Forgotten stores of robber gold; Where tigers in the jungle roam, And curious creatures are at home; Where lovely castles gleam in Spain; Where camels in a winding train Bear treasures from Aladdin’s land Across the desert’s yellow sand; Where painted mosques with towers high Point to the magic eastern sky; Where mystic lamps turn night to day; Where tinkling rainbow fountains play; Where giants lived, and dragons, too, Where fairy fancies might come true; Where everything is quaint and queer, So different from now and here!” Abbie Farwell Brown. Alcott, L. M. jA355sh Shawl-straps. Adventures of three young girls in Europe. Contents : Off. — Brittany. — France. — Switzerland. — Italy. — London. Ambrosi, Marietta. jgi 4 .5 A 4 g When I was a girl in Italy. Same as her “Italian child-life.” Marietta’s good times told by herself, How we gave a play. — How I played the queen. — How we gathered violets and roses. — Our Punch and Judy. — My last Sunday in Italia. Ayrton, Mrs Matilda (Chaplin). jgi5-2 Ag8c Child-life in Japan. Festivals, games and sports of Japanese children; also some of the stories which are told to them. Illustrations by Japanese artists. Barr, Mrs A. E. jB25gmi Michael and Theodora. How two little Russian children helped to rescue their father and mother from Siberia. Gives an interesting account of Russian Christmas festivities. 6 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH Black, William. jB5i4f Four MacNicols. Story of four orphan boys who make their own living in the Hebrides. Also con- tains “An adventure in Thule.” Blaisdell, E. A. & Dalrymple, Julia. jgi4.i5 B52 Kathleen in Ireland. Story of a little Irish girl and her blind sister who live among the mountains of lonely Donegal. They make visits in different parts of Ireland and hear stories of the good St. Patrick, Finn MacCool, the wee folk and the giants. Blaisdell, E. A. & Dalrymple, Julia. jgi7.2 B52 Manuel in Mexico. About Manuel’s life on an hacienda; how he played burro-corrido and other games with the Indian boys and how he and his friend Benito became pages to a great lady in Mexico city and took part in the Christmas festivities. Blaisdell, E. A. & Dalrymple, Julia. j9i4*5 B52 Rafael in Italy. Rafael Valla is seen first in Venice, where he rows his boat on the canals, hears the music of the band in the square of St. Mark and goes to the Rialto bridge for a serenade. With an American girl and her mother, he afterward travels in Italy, seeing Florence, the vintage with its merrymaking in Tuscany, the Roman ruins, the picturesque street life in Naples with its noise and gayety, and the silent streets of Pompeii. Blaisdell, E. A. & Dalrymple, Julia. jgi5-2 B52 Ume San in Japan. Begins by telling what little “Miss Plum Blossom” did on her nth birthday and also describes the “tea ceremony” of the illustrious dolls, the cherry blossom and flag festivals, the New Year’s merrymaking and other happy times, including a trip to Kamakura and the island of shells. Boyesen, H. H. jB66gmo Modern vikings. Stories of life and sport in Norseland. Contents: Tharald’s otter. — Between sea and sky. — Mikkel. — The famine among the gnomes. — How Bernt went whaling. — The cooper and the wolves. — Magnie’s dangerous ride. — Thorwald and the star-children. — Big Hans and little Hans. — A new winter sport. — The skerry of shrieks. — Fiddle- John’s family. Other stories of adventure in the “land of the midnight sun” are “Against heavy odds,” “Boyhood in Norway” and “Norseland tales.” Butterworth, Hezekiah. jgio.4 Bg8 Zigzag journeys around the world. Partial contents: The volcano of Kilauea. — Ceylon, the Taj and the great bo-tree. — The most beautiful temples in the world. — The coast of the discovery. — Walhalla. — The midnight sun. Davis, K. W. Pappina, the little wanderer; a story of southern Italy. Running title reads “The Punchinellos.” Little seven-year-old Pappina wanders with the Punchinellos along Italian coast, sings and dances and has many adventures, sad and happy. Dodge, Mrs Mary (Mapes). Hans Brinker; or, The silver skates. A story of glittering ice and flashing skates, and of the boys and girls of plucky little Holland. Dodge, Mrs Mary (Mapes). jD67il Land of pluck. Charming descriptions of Holland and its people, telling about its dikes, its streets and by-ways, its industries, and all the wonders that Dutch pluck has accomplished. The book contains also other short stories and sketches. jD3igp the beautiful jD67ih “FOREIGN LANDS WHERE WONDERS ARE” 7 Du Chaillu, P. B. jgi4-7 D86 Land of the long night. “ ‘The Land of the Long Night’ is a land of darkness, of snow, of wind and at times of intense cold. . .We shall sleep on the snow in bags made of reindeer skins, fol- lpw the nomadic Laplander and his reindeer, live with him and sleep in his kata, or tent. We shall hunt wolves, bears, and different kinds of foxes and other animals, and sail and fish on the stormy Arctic seas.” Introduction. Du Chaillu, P. B. J916.7 D86 Stories of the gorilla country. Exciting stories of explorations and discoveries, of hunting wild animals and of life with the cannibals and other savage tribes of Africa. Followed by “Wild life under the equator,” “Lost in the jungle,” “My Apingi kingdom,” “Country of the dwarfs.” Duncan, S. J. afterward Mrs Cotes. - jD8ggst Story of Sonny Sahib. How a baby boy was rescued by his ayah from the massacre at Cawnpore and brought up in a Hindu village. Haskell, H. E. jH 3 3go O-Heart-San. Story of O-Heart-San the Beautiful, of Haru, the young prince imperial of Japan, and of Maid Margery, a little American girl. Henty, G. A. ed. jgio H45f Famous travels. Partial contents: Hardships of Arctic travel, by E. K. Kane. — In Ceylon, by W. Ur- wick. — Glimpses of the East, by A. W. Kinglake. — Among the dead cities of the Zuyder Zee, by Henry Havard. — The geysers, Mount Hecla and the midnight sun, by Lord Dufferin. — The Taj Mahal, by W. Urwick. — A visit to the island of Juan Fernandez, by R. H. Dana. — Bazaars; an oriental scene, by G. W. Curtis. — At Tahiti, by Lady Brassey. Krout, M. H. jgig.6g K42 Alice’s visit to the Hawaiian islands. Travels of a little girl in the Hawaiian islands. Tells about the food, houses, cus- toms and cities of the islands, about a trip to the great volcano of Kilauea, and about Molokai, the leper island. Lane, M. A. L. ed. jgi4 L23 Under sunny skies. The lands under the “sunny skies” are Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Africa. Tells, among other things, about a trip across the Sahara desert and about the chestnut farms of Italy, the city of St. Mark and the macaroni country. Lee, Y. P. jgi5-i L52 When I was a boy in China. Partial contents: Chinese cookery. — Games and pastimes. — Schools and school life. — Chinese holidays. — Stories and story-tellers. — How I went to Shanghai. Martineau, Harriet. jM4 3 if Feats on the fiord; a tale of Norway. Romance of Erika, a Nordland peasant maid. Full of the charm of the old northern life. Miller, O. T. jgi5 M6g Little people of Asia. Curious stories of little people from babyhood up — Turkish, Syrian, Persian, Kirghiz, Hindu, Tibetan, Tartar, Siamese, Siberian, Eskimo, Tuski, Chinese and Japanese. Partial contents: The salted baby. — The oiled baby. — The baby without a home. — The baby who never cries. — The dyed baby. — Babies up in the corner. — The happiest of all. 8 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH Mitton, G. E. jgi4.2i M75 Children’s book of London. Describes some of the interesting sights of London: the Tower, the zoological gardens, Westminster abbey, the lord mayor’s show, the king’s palaces and others. Con- tains also several historical stories. Colored illustrations. Northern Europe. jgi4 N45 About the Faroe islands, life in Norway, scenes in Holland and Belgium, life in the Alps, a journey down the Moselle and descriptions of other places in northern Europe. Peeps at many lands series. South seas (Melanesia), by J. H. M. Abbott jgig.3 A13 England, by John Finnemore j9i4*2 F51 France, by John Finnemore j9*4-4 F51 Holy Land, by John Finnemore j9*5-6g F51 India, by John Finnemore j9i5*4 F51 Italy, by John Finnemore j9*4'5 F51 Japan, by John Finnemore jgi5.2 F51 Morocco, by John Finnemore jgi6.4 F51 Switzerland, by John Finnemore jgi4.94 F51 Scotland, by E. W. Grierson jgi4.i G8g Ireland, by Mrs K. T. Hinkson jgi4.i5 H56 Holland, by Beatrix Jungman jgi4.g2 J52 Burma, by R. T. Kelly jgis.g K17 Egypt, by R. T. Kelly j‘916.2 K17 South Africa, by Dudley Kidd jgi6.8 K24 Iceland, by Mrs Disney Leith jgi4.9i L56 The world, by A. R. H. Moncrieff jgio M8iw Siam, by Ernest Young j9*5*9 Y37 Series of little travel books giving interesting glimpses at the scenes and customs of other lands. Each of the volumes is beautifully illustrated in color. Plummer, M. W. jgi7.i P72 Roy and Ray in Canada. The twins, Roy and Ray Stevens, who have already visited Mexico, spend a summer in eastern Canada. They go to Ottawa, “run the slides” on a lumber crib, see a championship game of lacrosse in Montreal, visit quaint old Quebec, Indian Lorette, Lake St. John, Louisburg and the land of Evangeline. Plummer, M. W. jgi7-2 P72 Roy and Ray in Mexico. Roy and Ray Stevens, twins, “going on twelve,” with their parents spend a summer in Mexico. The book tells how they meet President Diaz, visit the ruins of Mitla, take part in the Fourth of July celebration of the American colony in the city of Mexico, and of all the other things which they see and do in the “land of manana.” Illustrations from photographs. Schwatka, F.rederick. jgig.8 S41 Children of the cold. Life of the Eskimo boys and girls. Here one may learn how their houses are built, what are their games and playthings, how they make their sleds and all about their seal- hunting and fishing. The author was a famous Arctic explorer and an authority on the subject. Smith, N. A. jS655iu Under the cactus flag. About an American girl who went to Mexico to teach English, of the good times she had at the quaint Mexican festivals and native dances, and finally of the untimely end of the “Sisterhood of Spinsters.” FOREIGN LANDS WHERE WONDERS ARE” 9 jS 772 h Spyri, Johanna. Heidi. Heidi lived among the Swiss Alps in a hut with her old grandfather. She climbed the high Alps; picked wild primroses, blue gentians and yellow buttercups; herded goats and lived on goats’ milk, cheese and black bread. She had many exciting experiences together with Peter, a herd boy, and a little girl from the city. Spyri, Johanna. Moni the goat boy, and other stories. Stories of the beautiful Swiss Alps. They seem fairly to glow are full of breezes and sunlight. Other stories: Without a friend. — The little runaway. Starr, Frederick. j‘572.9 S79 Strange peoples. Partial contents: Mexicans. — South American peoples. — Finns. — Lapps. — Turks. — Japanese. — Arabs. — Pygmies. — Bushmen and Hottentots. Stockton, F. R. jgi4 S86 Personally conducted. Travels through the “city of the bended knee,” “Queen Paris,” “King London” and other cities. Taylor, Bayard. Boys of other countries. Contents: The little post-boy. — The pasha’s son boys. — The young serf. — Studies of animal nature. Toward the rising sun. J915 T65 A school in China. — Korean ways. — A fair lady of Japan. — The head-hunters of Borneo. — Christmas in the tropics. — Malayan child life. — Housekeeping in East India. — The fire-worshipers, and other stories of life in eastern lands. White, J. R. & Smith, Adelaide. j9i6.8 W63 South Africa today. Tells about the diamond mines at Kimberley, the Victoria falls, the great bridge over the Zambesi, the railroads, the Boer war, the farm life and the cities. Wide world. jgio W67 About the life of children in foreign lands. Partial contents: Barbarian babies. — Some little Egyptians. — A school in Cairo. — Dutch children. — Boys and girls of Paris. — South American games. — A visit to Sweden. — May day in England. Books for Older Boys and Girls “I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy’d Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour’d of them all.” Tennyson. Allen, T. G. & Sachtleben, W. L. jgi5 A43 Across Asia on a bicycle. Adventurous journey of two American students from Constantinople to Peking, a trip which covered more than 15,000 miles and lasted three years. jT 25 ib . — Jon of Iceland. — The two herd- jS 772 m with joyousness and 10 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH Amicis, Edmondo de. 914.92 A51I1 Holland and its people. Author was an Italian who visited all parts of the Netherlands and wrote down on the spot his descriptions of what he saw and thought. Among other things he tells of The Hague and of Scheveningen and its fishermen, of the dead cities of the Zuyder Zee and of Zealand, “the most mysterious of the provinces of the Low Countries.” Bacon, A. M. 915-2 Bi2a Japanese girls and women. Partial contents: Childhood. — Education. — Court life. — Life in castle and yashiki. — Samurai women. — Peasant women. — Life in the cities. — Domestic service. — Within the home. Illustrations, some of them in color, by a Japanese artist. Bates, H. W. j57o-98 B31 Naturalist on the river Amazons. Adventures during 1 1 years of travel among Brazilians and South American Indians. Many illustrations. Du Chaillu, P. B. 3914.8 D86 Land of the midnight sun. 2v. Journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and northern Finland. Author traveled, as he tells us, “in an irregular course, by routes often crossing each other, and at different seasons of the year, either from the Baltic to the Polar Sea, or from the east to the west.” He shared the home life of the people and he tells of their ways of living and daily occupations and of their dances, weddings and other festive customs. Maps and more than 200 illustrations. Curtis, G. W. 916.2 C93 Nile notes of a howadji. Like Ali Cogia, merchant of Bagdad, “he saw all the rarities at Cairo, as also the Pyramids, and sailing up the Nile, viewed the famous towns on each side of that river.” Duncan, S. J. afterward Mrs Cotes. D899S Simple adventures of a memsahib. Housekeeping trials and amusing experiences of a young English wife in Calcutta. Fuller, Anna. F9821V Venetian June. How “the two Pollys” and their uncle spent a month amid the magical scenes of Venice. For more about Venice read Howells’s “Venetian life” (914.53 H8sa2) and Smith’s “Gondola days” (914.53 S64). Hay, John. 914.6 H36 Castilian days. Partial contents: Madrid al fresco. — Red-letter days. — A castle in the air. — The city of the Visigoths. — The Escorial. — A miracle play. — An evening with ghosts. — The cradle and grave of Cervantes. — A field night in the Cortes. Homaday, W. T. j9i5-4 H79 Two years in the jungle. Experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay peninsula and Borneo. The trip was for the purpose of collecting specimens for the United States National Museum. Irving, Washington. jgi4.6 I28 The Alhambra. A rambling journey across the arid mountains and savage passes, the pleasant valleys and plains that lie between Seville and Granada; with the legends, traditions and fairy tales which time has woven around the ruins of the beautiful Moorish palace of the Alhambra. “Go to the Moorish fountains, sparkling full in the moonlight — go among the water- carriers and the village gossips, living still as in days of old — and who has travelled among them before you, and peopled the Alhambra and made eloquent its shadows? Who wakes there a voice from every hill and in every cavern, and bids legends, which for centuries had slept a dreamless sleep, or watched unwinkingly, start up and pass before you in all their life and glory?” Charles Dickens. “FOREIGN LANDS WHERE WONDERS ARE” n Johnson, Clifton. 914.4 J35 Along French byways. Peasant life in rural France at the present day. Fine illustrations from photographs taken by the author. Johnson, Clifton. 914.1 J35 Land of heather. Travel in Scotland. Among the chapter headings are, A rural Hamlet. — The ways of the farm folk. — Thrums. — The isle of Mull. — The crofters of Skye. — A Burns pil- grimage. — A glimpse of Galloway. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Kennan, George. j9i5-7 K18 Tent life in Siberia. A personal narrative of perils and hardships during two years’ life among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia. Nansen, Fridtjof. 919.8 N12 Farthest north. Being an account of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram, 1893-96, and of a 15 months’ sleigh journey by Dr Nansen and Lieut. Johansen. It is not only a record of hardihood, daring and indomitable perseverance, but it gives a realizing sense of the mystery, awe and fascination of the polar world. Colored plates and many full-page and text illustrations. Nichols, L. D. N31711 A Norway summer. Three American girls travel in Norway and visit in a Norwegian household. Read also Wood’s “Norwegian by-ways” (914.81 W85). Twenty-four full-page color sketches of Norwegian scenery will be found in Cooper’s “Norwegian fjords” (914.81 C78). Peary, Mrs Josephine (Diebitsch). 919.8 P353 My Arctic journal. A year among ice-fields and Eskimos, with an account of the great white journey across Greenland, by R. E. Peary. Schwatka, Frederick. jgi7.2 S41 In the land of cave and cliff dwellers. Adventures and researches of two expeditions sent into northern Mexico in 1889 and 1890. The story contains much information about the cave and cliff dwellers still to be found there. Wiggin, Mrs Kate Douglas, afterward Mrs Riggs. W688c Cathedral courtship, and Penelope’s English experiences. Being such extracts from the journals of Kitty Schuyler and Jack Copley as relate to their experiences in England. Also contains the story of what befell Miss Penelope Hamilton on her English tour. Wiggin, Mrs Kate Douglas, afterward Mrs Riggs. W688pen Penelope’s Irish experiences. 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