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grub?'
 ."That was all." "What are your plans?" ihi9I 7'i
 "To find work and do it." .
 "What kind of workT'
 "Any kind that's honest"
 "You are educated, I supposew
 "Yes, in a way. I'm an A. M, and graduate in law"
 "Know anything about business"
 "No, but shall lea:n."
 .If you can, you mean?"
 "Oh, I can! A capable man can learn anything if he really wants to-"
 'I don't know about that But I'll gamble on the proposition that you can."
 Thank you"
 "No thanks are needed. I wasn't complimenting. I was just expressing an opinion"
 Scribbling a memorandum on scrap of paper, Captain Hallam handed it to Duncan, saying: Give that to the cashier as you go out and get your wages. Then you'd better get your breakfast. I recom- mend you while you're poor to eat at the little booths along the levee, where they sell very good sandwiches and coffee cheap. After breakfast if you choose to come back here I'll try to find something for you to do. Oh, I forgot You were up all night, so you'll want to sleep?" There was an interrogative note in the last sentence. Captain Hallam was sizing up" his man, and he closely scrutinized Duncan's face as the an- swer came.
 "Oh, I'm used to night duty. I'm ready for a days work If you can give me one As for breakfast, I've had it."
 Then you had moneyT
 "A very little, but I didn't spend any of 1t. I sawed and split a load of wood for the keeper of booth, and he gave me some bread and ham and coffee for my work"
 'Oh, that's the way you managed it. Very well. Come back here in two hours anyhow"
 After the young man had passed out Captain Hallam said to one of his part | ner brothers:
 That fellow is a good sort. He has sand in his gizzard. When he comes back set him at work at something or other-several things in succession, in fact-and find out what he can do" Such was Guilford Duncan's mus. ! tering into the new service of work.
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chased a change of very cheap under wear, a towel and cake of soap. Every morning about daylight he went to a secluded spot on the levee for a scrub and a swim. Then he washed out his towel and placed it, with his other small belongings, in a storage place he had discovered in a great lumber pile.
 One morning when he entered the office Captain Hallam gave him sev- eral business letters to answer from memoranda scrubbed upon them by clerks or others. He gave him also memorandum in his own handwriting, saying:
 "Cut that down if you can and make a telegram of 1t. I'll be back in half an hour or so. Have 1t ready for me-"
 The case was this: A huge steam boat lay at the levee loaded almost to the waters edge with grain, which Cap tain Hallam was more than anxious to hurry to New Orleans to meet sud den temporary and very marked ad- vance in that market. That morning the boat had been tiled up," as the phrase went--that Is to say, she had been legally attached for debt at the suit of a firm in St. Louis. Until the artacnment should be removed tie boat must lie at Cairo in charge of sheriff's officer. Captain Hallam wish ed to secure her immediate release, and to that end he purposed sending the telegram.
 When he returned to the office Dun- can handed him for inspection and sig nature the letters he had written.
 Here is the telegram also," he said, "but if you will pardon the imperti- hence 1 think you had better not send 1t, at least in the form you have given It."
 Whats the matterr quickly snap ped Hallam.
 "It binds you to more than I think you intend"
 -"Go onl Explalnw'
 "why. I cannot help seeing that if you send this dispatch you will make yourself legally responsible. not only for the claim for which the boat is now attached, but also for every claim against her that may exist anywhere. There may be none such, or there may be many. In any case. do not think you intend to assume them all"
 "Go on. The boat must be got away. What do you adviser
 That you go on her bond for this claim. which seems to me so clearly illegal that I think you can never be held upon the bond-and"-
 ~Remind me when this is over that you are to come to my house tonight | for consultation on that point. Now go on.-
 well, by going on her bond for this claim instead of asking the editors to release the boat on your promise as made in the telegram you can secure her immediate release. m.king your self liable. at worst. for no more than ' the s6D0 claimed
 ~But if I do that. what Is to prevent another tie-up at Memphis and anoth- | CT at yIcksDurg and others wherever the boat may happen to Iands She's in debt up to the top of her snokestscks | all along the nver.-
 ~As yo1 own the cargo and she can't cary another ton. why should you let her stop zt sll7 I suppose the captain would do ss y0u desire in that mat ter
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CHAPTER VI.

@APTAIN WILL HALLAM was a man of the very shrewdest
 z sense, fairly though not liber- ally educated, whose life from boyhood onward had been devoted to the task of taking quick advantage of every opportunity that the great river traffic of the fifties had offered to men of enterprise and sound judgment.
 Beginning as a barefoot boy about 1850 or earlier-he never mentioned the date-he had run the river" in all sorts of capacities until when the war came, temporarily paralyzing the river trade, he had a comfortable little sum of money to the good.
 Unable to foresee what the course and outcome of the war might be, he determined as a measure of prudence to indulge himself and his little hoard in a period of safe waiting. He con- verted all his possessions Into gold and deposited the whole Of II in a Cana dian bank. where, while 1t earned no interest, It was at any rate perfectly safe.
 Then he sought and secured a clerk ship in the commissary department of the army. living upon the scant salary that the clerkshIp afforded and mean while acquainting himself in minute detail with the food resources of every quarter of the country, the means and methods of transportation and han ding and everything else that could in any wise aid him in making himself a master in commerce.
 Then one day in 1883. when he had satisfied himself that the fortunes Of war were definitely turning and that in the end the Union cause was destin- cd to triumph. he made change.
 He resigned his elerkship. He re- called his money from Canada and considerably increased at least it's nom inal amount by converting the gold in- to greatly appreciated greenbacks.
 Sith this capital he opened a com rnissiOn and forwarding house at Cairo. together with a coal yard. bank. five wharf boats. half dozen tugs. an in- surance office. a four mill and other ,sings. He seT.t for his brothers to act as his clerks and presently to become his partnerS-
 From the beginning be made money rapidly. and from the beginning he vas eagsrIy OB the lookout for OppOr- tunities which in that time of rapid ehznge were abundant He quickly secured coutrOl of nearly all the com mission and forwarding business that centeref at Cairo By H1sierlIiiding the government itself b. presently had es1srarts fer all th< vast government bzsi7ess Of that chsrscter.
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CHAPTER VII.

N CRING the next four or five days Guilford Duncan was kept busy with various small 0 empIoyments. some of them out of doors and some of them in the office During this time Captain Hal lam did not again engage him In con versation. but Duncan knew that the man of business was closely observing his work. He was not slow to discover that be was giving satisfaction He saw that with each day the work ss- signed him was of a kind that required a higher intelligence than that of the day before.
 Every evening the cashier paid him his days wages. thus reminding him that he was not a saIaried employee of the house. but a man working for wages from day to day
 Out Of ais first wages be had pur-
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at a profit was to sell it through the

at a profit was to sell it through the Hallam yards at Cairo. Dm si I19d1J- In the meanwhile. as one region aft. CT another in the south was conquered by the Union arms, Captain Hallam, whose long river service had brought him into acquaintance with pretty nearly everybody worth knowing south of Cairo, established agents of his own at every point where there was cotton to be bought at extravagant prices, payable In gold, even while the war was going on. These agents bought the cotton, the planters agreeing to de- liver it upon the banks of the rivers and leave it there at Hallam's risk. Then Captain Hallam's steamboats, big and little, would push their way up the little rivers. take the cotton on board and carry it to Cairo.
 Captain Will Hallam was quick to make up his mind with regard to a man. He was exceedingly accurate in his human judgments, too, and his con- fidence in them had been strengthened by experience in successfully acting upon them. As he phrased 1t, he "knew how to size a man up." and as the en- ployer of multitudes of men in all parts of the country and in all sorts of capacities he had daily need of the skill he had acquired in that art. It was as much a part of his equipment for the conduct of his vast and varied enterprise as was his money capital itself.
 When young Duncan presented him. self In the private office after his nights vigil as a watchman Captain Hallam asked him to sit. Captain Hal lam had been impressed by this new comer, and he wanted to talk with him.
 He broke at once into a catechism.
 "Why did you do that little fire ex- tingulshing act last night!'
 He asked the question precisely as he might have done If he had resented the saving of his wealth of cotton.
 ''Oh. 1t was simple enough. The fire meant damage, and I was there. So. of course, I put it out"
 But why: The cotton wasn't yours, and you hadn't been hired to watch it.
 No. of course not. But when a gen tle- mean when any decent man sees property afire he doesn't ask whose it is before putting out the blaze"
 You're a yirginian. I should say, from your vOice-late of the rebel ar my. What's your rankr'
 "Sone now. I've put the war com pIetely behind me. I'm beginning life anew"
 Good. I wish everybody. north and south. would do the same. But fools won't, and men are mostly fools. you know. When did you get to CairOT'
 About five minutes before you saw me putting out the fire. I came down the river on the big towbOat"
 Where's your baggsgeY
 "On my back I have no other clothes. I'll buy some when I earn some money
 Where have you been since the sur. renderg-
 Making my way west"
 "Howy'
 -On foot to Wheeling Then on the towboat--
 What fare did they make you payT
 None. I worked my way as q stoker-fremzn they call it out here
 ~No vages7 Just passare snd
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The captain understood After half an hour spent in legal fOrmaIIties the released steamboat cast loose from the wharf and backed out into the river.
 Then Captain HaIIam turned to Gull ford Duncan and said:
 I've an idea that you'll do. If you like I'll put you at regular work at monthly salary. and ve'n see how ve get on together-
 T should Ike that-
 -very well Now. where are you boardinzy
 -Novhere. I get what I want to eat
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Uo Be cuuunuedl
Hope pessrrs

Madge-Don't worry about a ku band. dear. A pretty girl is certais to marry.
 Msriorie-It would hs all right ! there wasn't such an uncertainty abos the certain things of this ucri6- Smart Set E
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Notice of settlem.n,

ESTATE OF ELLA L. p sHsTTrcy
STATE OF VERMONT an ma p.,.eA
Tor Iii n1iisLhief s. held az Rasdei1t gaa
ipf stin District on the li IN Fl PA e AL
4. =; 1900, Edmund shattuck. 35al. feafusr.
IN id o. Eila = shaftucE a,e tT5.ssli
~ nisiricb deceased n,.l i'.aslt
aliiHi y, account ~ hs,ae
anu, anu a ~ and makes anneafg sst
said deceased "l lhe estate
ac Mnsrea Pc Z 3 ordered By said cag-
sion Of said Court e. be heid n ttsp6lel lesss-
n seld Randolph on the lith DIV "A F. ess'
thereon s "a i9r hearing ana 5s..
sons ~ Interested be notified hereof ~ e,, p y
q notice q said application and sr,i p.v \,
paper published 10 Randolph 55d ~, .t lAsss
ialea ~ the neiEhborhopd of tha.e ir,s.sl. CIV
lvrs said time u hearing. that tbl, -'. e,.sl b
said time aud place and, u thew ~ l.. .ppgF
thereto BY the Court Attest e'ea
WILLIAM a. NICHOLS la.
true copy 4 Record Attest
WILLIAM n NICHOLS la.
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Notice Of settlsm.n,

ESTATE or FRANK T. BErKwIrH
siAIE OF VERMONT. m re pr3t,,so,.
hASpoLrH DISTRICT s.. iheld at RsHi.ist y. y.
ipr s ,aei District, on the as dsy d Js5s, y,
r. l. beckwith, administrator f The 49,.
q Frank r. Beckwith, late of Cbslsss ~, ~,
district, deceased, present hls a8riTis,..,N' w
account for examination and si6v11ss ..i
makes application for a decree ID d.ts5,..l y.
Al partition - the estate 81 said ds-es.sd
Whereupon, IL q ordered hy Nd C67ss "a.
said account aud application 81 rsfsrrst ~.
session 81 said Court, 10 b. hold Il ~ p,.i.,'
once ~ said Randolph, ON te fith dar.ff.'
ruarY, a. u. 1905. fur hearing and a.ri.t
thereoni and II Is further arIereH 49, y
persons Interested be notified teref Il
publication Of notice II said appliesties
1r'asr thereon, three weeks sucdessIysiy Il ~
Ohelsea Herald, 4 paper published Ia RasIlssl
and which circulates Ia the neigtt.,-f-s y
ihose interested before said time Of bearing ~
ihtA may appear a. said time and place. IA d
they see cause, object thereto
BY the Court. Attest
WILLIAM u NICHOLS. Is8s.
true copN 81 record Aftasf
less WILLIAM n NICHOLS. Jsies
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Probate OF VIII


ESTATE OF SIMON c. WEBSTER
STATE or VERMONT. In Probate Court aea
RANDOLPH DISTRICT, -. at Randolph. IN Ah9 N
1906
Present, Hon. WILLIAM II. NICHOLS, jung
An instrument purporting % De the ~ ~
and testament Of Simon {. webster ave y
Randolph, Ia said District deceased, being Wt
scented 20 the Court by Rebecca Webster, ths =,
ecutor therein named, Tor probate it j ofll..5
hy said Court that all persons eoncefaea 49, 80
re notified 10 appear az session gl sAlu - -.
70 be held al the Probate once 10 isanluf5 "
the Nth day OF February, A. d, 1890, ah .a. 80
cause, Il any they may have. against Us y ~
OF said will for which purpose it y tuftls.
dered that a cow n The record 81 this ordef Y
published three weeks successlNeR n..,idu,
Herald and News, printed ut Randolph FtA"
to said time appointed for hearing
BY the Court. Attest: ,a t.4va
isss WILLIAM II. NICHOLS 9hasv
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Probate Of VIII,


ESTATE or JAMES b. kENW6RfHf
STATE OF VERMONT In Frobate curt ls 4,
RASDolPh DISTRICT. 81. bt Cheiseal n aal
said District, on the 18th DAY q 3ah"AF'
D. 1906
Present, Hon. WILLIAM n. NICHOLS, judy.
An Instrument, purporting a. be iht Asl w
and Testament u James b. kenWurthl, Att y
lunbridge. In said district, deceased. BENG ~
scented 70 the Court ~ 8, 4 woodward ile eA
ecutog therein nsned, for frphetei lt i oIa.'s
BY said Court, that an persons cote efnea h
notlied 20 appear at n session OF sald t-ai. ssf
held at the Probate Office IN Randolphlan y, +, -.
day OF Feb, A. d. 1906, and show cause s1
they may have, sgainst the Probate ~ ~ ..sta
Tor which purpose il Is further oriereL itIi-bs5
copy Of the record of THIS order "a ~
three weeks successfully In the White hitsf ~.
aid, printed at Randolph, previous @ sa''
for hearing.
BY the Court; attest, IL.
isss WILLIAM II NICHOLS Jaass
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LEGAL NorIcrs
rA Tot TIC of o. settlemeu

sr.rr a., : ~ EMILY p DOrsps
SITE OF VERMONT. A. .hLRBlF
aAhIsohD DISTRICT, -. heis = Probate
pa anu Tor said District I'll " Moodss., "a
airy A. y. ieoe pA The ~ n. sAsf
Present Hos. 7. q g.. ~
IN we matter I the estnf.-e ~ jude
my ln,s o. koyalton, IN ssii bhaly b..
where's, z. A. Doub.5. s-
sald estate. fsi adnini
lng an account a. poses
sah estate and presfr55., aduh.5-.l
ahahft the same for eyae D. -
auce, AZ session Of said f,..lLsiiiQn lbd \
w, W.. PROBATE ONCE In saiS mr. 70 BE- -
ne tarsn y IeDruAry' A. D. 1903 v s'oek q N
Ahd whereas said Court has
u. lt SSH time and place ~ ~ ighed az
"'eyuht ana tor issBirr. stttlenesi q
/. Nsiuuc - hald estate 10 ~ eeeree n 4 4
Z, III same and hss ordered h ptrs0ls esss
~ 1899 III De given o. all ber.l s puhlg +.
~ said estate BY pubUst55, intesas,
y. ~ 50 TINS order three 49,. I copy q \,
ii ~ tns nhis River Herald sleoes.,.
", ,,si ~ ~ heyaltun Ia sala pi..tNs paper NJ
'i., pia,iiestions % be nreFiaHs ne y
ny olt sbfuary A. b. 1905 70 ssh ~
therefore, al persons copeerr.tt
~, ntftht ngiihed 60 anUe5r . ~ 'aId s,is
J. y me on The day assigned Il $50. y s4d fsl-.
y nsie Y contest the allowance i, ~ tlss n,
y. 49, cause, and t. esfs hi'.l ~. .t 41nc,i
~ IA thants ~ said resi,ine iaei H.if
true record. Attest
a true copy of record a 49, atsANAR, Juis
7, o, SEAVFp
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THE MONITOR GATHERING TANK
Saves Time, Labor and Sap.
Why Poultry is Profitable.

a hen is profitable or Improbable, Just
q proportion to the mum Der of eggs she
avs but hens are like human beings they
10 not do good work when they are not
Erell
Green Cut Bone and Meat is pronounced
by some poultrymen the best known arti-
Gle Tor keeping the hen in strong, healthy
condition during the days OF severe cold
weather which we have in January, Feb
ruary and March.
C. > Page of Hyde Park, VI, furnishes
Ehis commodity and on receipt of $3.50
"hl send barrel, freights prepaid, to any
rsaroad station in New England or New
York
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commlssIoners' Notles.
EsTArE 81 nARRIrr y srrnapl

-" y y OF HaHhIEI v .IENAkF
The undersigned, having been appointed hr itt
honorable Probate Court, inr The District K
Hartford, commissioners 10 receive. examina ~
ADJUST All claims and demands Of sli rerslss
against the estate Harriet N stpwart iafe
sharen, VI, IN said District deceased and al
claims exhibited IN offset thtreto herein ~
notice that We viii meet Cor the purpose
Aforesaid az the dwelling house ~ q n BarIs
sharon, VI, ON the ~ DAY " March next iri
the tIth day Of July next ffdm
O'Clock p. m. until 4 O'Clock D. M. 0n eiet
q said days, aud that six months mn
the nth day 81 Jan, a. u. 1906 Is he tine
limited by said Court Tor said crediars o.
present their claims 10 as ioT sKamInzta1 snd
allowance.
Dated q sharon. Vt, this Jist day q D.
uary, A, y. 1905. 1875
n. G. BRUCE,
y. ID. FREEMAN. N''ui''u
g, =. Burke. Exec.
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Commissioners, Notice.
ESTATE OF JENNIE 3. sNIfH

The undersigned having been appointed BY ne
Honorable Probate Court, f1r fhe pIstrd 9
Randolph, Commissioners o. receive examine a1d
adjust All claims and demands ~ all person,
against Jennie r.. Smith. late ~ hr'akieii
~ said District, deceased, hereby give naiNe
that wewill meet for the purposeoi examining ahd
allowing said claims az the home ~ Or. p p
Ellis in the town of Brookheli ia Sold district @
The 9th day 81 Narch and % the 2sth day oi JuF
next from O'clock .. m until Z odet
.. m, on said days, aud that six months IRON n,
fsth day ofJan., A. ID. 1906. Is the time lmie
y said Court for said creditors % present ilef
STAINS % US for examination ana allowance
Dated az Brookneld. Vt, this 81 day ~ feal
A. d. 1905.
T. CALAGAN. rea,r
q. L. ELLIS
h. +. Ellis. Exec. sa
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Commissioners Notice.
ESTATE OF CHARLES B. WALL

ESTATE OF OHAkLEs % 'I7'7''7 -.
The undersigned having been appoint ilsrt.
honorable Probate Court for the DieItit svH
ford Commissioners. 20 receive, eAs5 ...'-sl-s
ADJUST an claims and demands ui ~ ~ "a
against the estate Of Charles B N"ta ~ IN
hn}alton, ia said District, decea-. .irs
claims exhibited IN offset thereto lt -a-
notice that We win meet for the rnTI s1th
slid' 90 farhell aud Viii hams ONE ss+r-
ltotaltun In said RoYalton on the ~ ar
DAY ~ March next. and the SECOND s5rt
July next from O'Clock a. M ulllt ~ f-"r
j. M - said days, and that sly W. rus
me ~ day ~ February, A. y. 1850 g ~
limited by said Court for said crf.i.I ,f.s-
sent their claims % o. for examinatina A
ance
Dated az Royalton, this 6th day ID. iy ,s
d. 1906
JOHN b. GOODRICH. tenn. 4s.lutrs.
sELDEN 5. BROOKS,
Arthur 9. Whitman, spl. Admir-.
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THE NORTH SEA.

The voice OF the North Sea caIleth.
Solemn and full and SLOW.
Come down 20 my icy oaverns.
Ny srottC-s ana deeps below
| will .ay my head on your forehead
And on your fevered breast.
You shall sleep serene and quiet
No dreams shall haunt your rest
Il saw the boat Of the Norseman
Afoat IN ire silent nieht.
marked in tie danger caimuess.
In the eye urdauuted light
Come down. I cried, we are klndFe d,
Thou man Of fear -ess brow
Tie door am ! Of NalhaIia"
How stu his slumbers nowl
When the herring boats outWander
lift ms mighty arms
How beats mY heart for fishers.
The lovers Of ocean charms
The cold Il has kept these waters
As pure as failing snow
Come hither. intrepid seamenr
Behold they he below.
mo barber am / for spices,
Upon ms diadem
In nligrce Of frost ! wear
Tbs midnight sun for a gem.
TIE Unknown North has myers
That reach into ms tide
on, not for talmy pleasure
He clutches deep and wide.
"Ho. Sc who fear not anguish.
fe souls Of steel, come forth
As Jacob fought with the angel.
Come, struggle with ne N1r.hi
stand face % face with trouble
And meet death with a shout
TIE gale that dims your courage
Shall blow tie North Star out."
Youth Companion.
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bility, irritability, nervousness, sleep
lessness, melancholy, "all-gone ans.
want-to- be -left-alone . feelings, blues
and hopelessness, they should remem-
Der there Is one tried and true remedy.
Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound at once removes such troubles.
No other female medicine in the
world has received such widespread
and unqualified endorsement.
The needless suffering Of women from
diseases peculiar TO their sex is terrible
to see. The money which they pay TO
doctors who do not help them Is an
enormous waste. The pain is cured
and the money is saved by Lydia +.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
II is well for women who are I'M 10
write Mrs Pinlham. at Lynn, Mass.
The present Mrs. Pinkham Is the
daughter-in-law Of Lydia +. Pinkham,
her assistant for many years before her
decease, and for twenty FIVE years
since her advice has been freely given
TO sick women. In her great expert.
ence, which covers many years. she
has probably had TO deal with dozens
Of cases just like yours Her advice
IS strictly confidential.
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shattering Her Hnnss

Mr. Close-About how much does an
automobile oatdt for a woman costq
Mrs Close texcitedly)-Oh. George
you re not going to buy an automobile
are you?
should say not I'm merely trving
q ngure Out how far beyond his income
lhat man Brassey is living. Broot.
Ign Life oo'-
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Have you ever considered the deb,
Of gratitude you owe to your countrvg.
Yes, answered Senator sorgb,,r,
But 1t doesn't bother me. A dent :
gratitude can't foreclose any mort
cages Washington Star.
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Most birds have three toes in from,
ana one behind but the woodpecke,
l-s t@o II font al two behind