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But let us come to the Fairhaven District Schools, the last build- ings standing, before the days of consolidation, transportation and improved gradation. A school district was a section of a town center- ing about the school of that community. The district and the district schoolhouse each had the same number, the number appearing on the schoolhouse above the entrance. That section or part of the town went under different names, e.g., precinct, parish, society, squad-
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ron, division, diocese, ward, quarter, angle, skirt, rick, district, etc., the last mentioned becoming the general designation, since that word was used in the enactment of the law pertaining to school districts.
Fairhaven was favored by schools before the Revolution, one being located on schoolhouse hill, afterwards being known as meet- ing-house hill, said hill being situated on the line of Center street between Main and William streets. From the front entrance of the Pope house, on the south side of Center street, one walked on a level or horizontal to the street. Today Center street, being cut down, causes one to ascend several steps before entering this house opposite the Congregational church. The schoolhouse on the hill was erected before the Revolution and remained there during the Revolutionary period, but, in 1790, the lot on the northeast corner of Main and Center streets was sold for meeting-house purposes and the school- house was forced to move. Up Main street, it went, stopping im- mediately north of the later site of Dunham's stable. Here it was transformed into a dwelling-house, and here lived Nabby Christopher, and Nancy Neptune and John Mills, and others, until its demolition by Edward Manchester, Jr., who had purchased the lot on the south- east corner of Spring and Main streets where he, after filling in the lot, erected in 1886, the two-story apartment house that stands there today.
Fairhaven had nineteen school districts, those numbered 1 to 9 being in Acushnet Village, a part of Fairhaven until 1860. We will now enumerate and describe the district schools that belonged to the present township of Fairhaven. These districts were numbered from 1 to 19, with the exception of No. 18 which was set off from District No. 6 in Acushnet, in 1837, but were re-numbered in 1862 when No. 10 became No. 1; No. 11 became No. 2; No. 19 became No. 3; No. 12 & 13 became No. 4; No. 15 became No. 5; No. 16 became No. 6; No. 14 became No. 7 and No. 17 became No. 8. This change in numbers took place after a town meeting, held at Sawin's Hall on William street in April 1862, article 17 reading as follows : "To see if the town will re-number the School Districts."
Under the older classification, No. 10 was called the North Fairhaven school or the Royal Hathaway district, the schoolhouse being known as the Pink schoolhouse. This schoolhouse was built in 1856 near the town line. In July 1874, it was moved south and located on the town farm land. On Saturday, May 22, 1886, it was sold at public auction to Amos Rogers for $52, and subsequently was transformed into a dwelling-house now located at the northeast
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corner of North Main and Coggeshall streets. This school, in its original location, had teachers known to the present generation. For instance, in the winter of 1871-72, and in the following spring, the teacher was Miss Amanda F. Sears who afterwards taught at the Stone schoolhouse at Oxford Village, and subsequently was principal of the Center Street Grammar School, later becoming teacher of the Rogers School when it opened in 1885. In the summer and winter, following Miss Sears at the North Fairhaven school, we find one who is still among the citizens of Fairhaven, interested in everything that transpires notwithstanding her age of 92. She lived in the house on the north side of Bridge street, west of Main street, now numbered 12, and owned at the present time by Mr. Clifton A. Hacker. From her home, she walked to her school on the Acushnet line, and walked home after school had closed for the day. In winter, when conditions permitted, she sauntered down to the river from her Bridge street residence, buckled on her skates, and skated to the Pink schoolhouse at North Fairhaven. The town report tells us that the name of that teacher was Belle L. Cowen. Miss Isabella L. Cowen and Benjamin G. Perry were married on August 14, 1877. Many of us know the son, Mr. Lewis Perry, and all know the daughter, Miss Grace B. Perry, the latter living with her mother at 57 Main street.
Returning to the subject of the North Fairhaven school, we note that, in the winter of 1874-75, the teacher was George H. Tripp who became one of our foremost citizens. !
District No. 11 was at Oxford Village and was called, in the committee report, the "Point School." The land, 20 rods, according to a recorded deed, was purchased of John Taber, in 1828, for $20.00. An agreement to build was dated March 17th of that year, the school- house, 201/2 by 36 feet, to be finished within five months. The price paid was $520.01. It accommodated 64 pupils, there being 24 double forms, and 16 single ones. This school served the community for more than half a century. In 1847, the building could not accom- modate all the pupils, so the younger children were taught in the basement of a nearby dwelling house. An additional, new school- house, however, called the "Oxford Street School" was erected in 1848, and was located about half way between the Union Chapel on North street and the Relief Engine House on Oxford street. It was called the "Infant" schoolhouse and was sold at auction on June 1, 1867, and is now incorporated within the dwelling house just east of the Old Relief Engine House building. District No. 12 and District No. 13 were separate when formed in 1826, but they were
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united by a town vote through a petition signed by Warren Del- ano and others, in 1831. Nine years later, an attempt to dis- unite them was unsuccessfully made, the name from 1831 being District No. 12 and 13. In this district which was in Fairhaven Village, there were four schoolhouses and six schools. The building on Center street was erected in 1832, and was enlarged in 1843 in order to accommodate the Grammar school, a new institution for the town. The land was sold to Fairhaven by William Rotch, Jr., for $493.50, for schoolhouse already erected (summer of 1832). Be- sides the Grammar school which was on the upper floor, there were on the lower floor the "Infant" and "Medium" schools. Along in 1849-50, Mr. M. L. Montague was the Grammar school principal, and such a successful one that, upon the opening of the Fairhaven high school in 1852, he was appointed principal. The Grammar school hall accommodated 80 pupils. The building was sold in 1887, taken down by John Bradford, and re-erected on the Walter How- land farm on the Alden road where it now stands. Taking leave of the old building in 1885, it was our pleasure to stand within the walls of the old structure sixty years later. The old bell, the rope of which hung in the class-room on the south, was sold to Capt. Eben Pierce for $20.20.
In addition to the Center street building which housed, at times, three schools, there were in this district two schoolhouses on Green street, and one called the North Primary at the corner of Rotch and Spring streets. The South Primary (No. 1) was on the east side of Green street not far from Church street. This building was sold, in 1888, to Mr. Peter Shurtleff and is still standing, near the south- west corner of Allen street. The South Medium which was built in 1845, and stood near the town pound, the latter being built in 1847, was on the west side of Green street. The South Medium was moved to the east side and joined to the South Primary building, the entries then being at each end of the united building. This is the building still standing on the property of Mr. Shurtleff. The North Primary schoolhouse was built about 1843, and stood on Bridge street at the head of Jefferson street. It was moved to the corner of Spring and Rotch streets in 1867, and sometimes called by the school com- mittee in their reports the "Spring Street School." It was pur- chased by Mr. George R. Valentine, in 1888, and moved to his premises on the north side of Spring street, where it still stands as a former Machine Shop.
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District No. 14 indicates Sconticut Neck. The comment in the school committee report for 1846 was: "HOUSE, rather the worse for wear, and needs to be thoroughly repaired." It was repaired, and the committee report stated that the building was "a perfect gem." Mr. Frederick Jenney, known to many of the present gen- eration, taught this school for several years from 1846. It is now used as a dwelling house.
District school No. 15, built at Naskatucket, in 1873, at a cost of $1,200, is still standing, but not on its original site. It is now be- stowing a learned atmosphere to the former New Bedford-Fairhaven Airport. As a schoolhouse it stood on Mill road about one half mile north of Washington street, north of the site of the old grist mill.
The New Boston schoolhouse, No. 16, converted into a dwelling house, is the second building south of the chapel on the New Boston road, one-fifth of a mile north of Washington street. On the corner boards of this venerable institution of learning may still be seen the intricate carvings of the youth of years ago. The youngsters needed no lessons in sloyd to make them masters of the finest tracery of the component parts of the English alphabet. The ancient woodhouse, in the rear, is also bedecked with the alphabetical carvings of those now well along in years as well as many who have long since ended their earthly careers. The large boulder, on the south side of the road leading to Mattapoisett, was the boundary line of the school districts, No. 15 and No. 16.
The West Island District, No. 17, contained two families, at one time, and had no schoolhouse. The children, six in number, were taught in a dwelling-house. As far back as 1862, it was recom- mended by the committee that this school be abolished and included in District No. 7, (Sconticut Neck.)
School District, No. 19, has had an interesting history as set forth in the original records. It was located on the east side of Privilege street, near Bridge street, and was razed in 1906 in which year pictures were taken, the photographic plate being in our posses- sion.
The lot and the school building were given to the district by Mr. Abner Pease who lived on the southwest corner of Main and Pease street. The school was opened in 1838, continuing until 1887, after a service of nearly half a century. Mr. Pease left by will the sum of $5,000, the interest of which was to be used to aid in the cost of maintenance of the district school. The limits of the district were
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never to be enlarged or altered, and were as follows: - "North west corner bound commencing at the shore of the harbor six rods north of the Bridge street, at the Toll House, and running east par- allel with the said Bridge street, until it intersects the creek or Mill Pond, then bounded by the margin of said creek in a southwesterly direction to the mill bridge, then bounded by the shore of the harbor to the first mentioned bounds."
The Pease District was originally within the united school Districts, numbers 12 and 13, and article eight in the warrant for the town meeting held on Monday, April 2, 1838, at Academy Hall, reads as follows: "To act on the petition of Abner Pease and others, viz., 'To see if the town will set off and constitute a new School District to be nominated School District, No. 19."
By the inspection of the early maps of Fairhaven, it will be plain that the Pease School District was a veritable peninsula with the base at Bridge street otherwise surrounded by water, the Mill Pond on the east and the harbor on the west.
"Truant Officers" or "Attendance Officers" or "Supervisors of Attendance" came into effective being less than a century ago. At a town meeting held on Saturday, September 11, 1852, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at the Town House, Article Two reads as follows: "To see if the town will vote to provide a place or places for the punishment of Truant Children and absentees from school, agreeable to an Act of the Legislature 'passed in the year 1850'."
The first compulsory school attendance law in the United States was passed in Massachusetts in 1852, with the age limits from 8 to 14 years, with 12 weeks schooling required, six being consecutive.
Collapse of the School District System. - Democracy is exasperatingly slow in effecting reforms. In the year 1789, the school district system was established in Massachusetts. The districts became corporations in 1817. By a law enacted in 1853, in 1859, and again in 1869, the Legislature abolished the school district system, but in each instance the act of abolition was repealed. Not until 1882 was the pernicious system permanently put out of existence. It took nearly one hundred years to rid the State of a system which Horace Mann, our first State Commissioner of Edu- cation, described as follows: - "I consider the law of 1789, author- izing towns to divide themselves into districts, the most unfortunate law, on the subject of common schools, ever enacted in the State."
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What did Fairhaven do? It gave the school district system a trial for a little over half a century. The "Nurseries of Freedom," these "Cradles of Liberty" had to go. They just simply didn't fill the bill.
The Center Street Grammar School. - It was on Friday after- noon, June 26, 1885 that the farewell exercises took place at this Grammar School. Miss Amanda F. Sears, principal and Miss Lucy . F. Winchester, assistant, were the teachers in charge of the last school exercises to be held within the walls of the old structure that had served as a Grammar school since 1843. Visitors turned out in unusually large numbers to witness the last closing exercises, A Young Folks' Convention. Master Jackson was president and Master Shurtleff was secretary. It was highly praised by the press. Not wholly content with the regular school year we find pupils attend- ing private schools as well. Miss Robertson opened one of them at the Center street Grammar school, beginning at 8:30 and closing at 12. The terms were 20 cents per week per pupil.
The Rogers School. - Mr. Henry H. Rogers purchased the tract of land east of the old foundry, bounded by Center, Chestnut, Union and Pleasant streets, in November, 1882. The population of the town at that time was about 3,000. An architect was hired, the foundation was laid, and the corner-stone was put in place with ap- propriate exercises on May 15, 1884. The building was dedicated on September 3, 1885. This educational institution was opened on the morning of September 7th of that year, with an enrollment of about 300 among whom many of us still on terra firma may be count- ed. There was no session in the afternoon, as there were few school books ready for distribution. It was in the year 1884 that the free text-book and school supplies law was enacted. The grades occupied Rooms 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8; the high school pupils were assigned to Rooms 5 and 6. The pupils marched in and out at recess, and out at the close of the sessions, to the music of Master Fred R. Fish's drum. The school year, well remembered, passed quickly, the STAR telling of the closing days, as follows: - "SCHOOL EXERCISES. The annual exercises of the several departments of the Rogers School, preparatory to closing the term for the mid-summer vacation of ten weeks, occurred yesterday (Friday, June 25, 1886). A large audience, including several persons from New Bedford, was present. The exercises were held in the large room on the third floor of the build- ing, which had been nicely fitted up for the purpose. In the north- east corner of the room a platform was erected and settees were
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REPORT OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. FAIRHAVEN, DISTRICT 12 & 13. TERM ENDING OCTOBER 20, 1848. M. L. MONTAGUE, A. B. .
Miss HARRIETT MONTAGUE,
Assistant Teacher.
MALES
No. of Studies.
Presence. Absence.
Rank.
FEMALES
in No. of Studies.
Presence.
Absence.
Rank.
Allen, Edmund T. 5 100 0
10
Bowen, Mary S.
93 7 10
Alden, John F.
4 98 4 7.8
Briggs, Ann M.
4
66 34
7.
Bradford, James F. 4 98 4 9.5 Chapman, Maria A.
58 12 8.
Bisbee, Henry H.
4 94 6 9. Cowie, Sophia
4€ 100 0 7.5
Brown, Walter B.
86 14
Cook, Mary G.
4
66
14 6.5
Chase, Alexander H.
96 4 -
Dunham, Sarah J.
4
36 4
10
Caswell, Hervey R. 4
93 -7
9.5
Delano, Ester
4
86 14
9.7
Drew, Charles, Jr. 4 100
0
9.5
Eldredge, Pamelia A. 4
80 0
10
Ellis, Frederick A. 5 97
3 9.8
Eldredge, Eunice M. 4 64
16
7.5
Ellis, Rufus K.
4 100 0 10
Grinnell, Jane F. 4 100 0 10
Ewer, Frederick F ..
- 75 5
9.
Howard, Rebecca D. 5 100
0 10
Freeman, Obed
4 100
0
9.7
Howard, Jane E. 4 68
47
13
7.5
Fitch, Reuben H.
4 95
5 9.5 Hutchins, Eliza C 4
95
5
8.
Grinnell, Joshua, Jr.
4
65
5
7.
Jenney, Helen M.
4 100 0 9.5
Gregory, Henry
4
97
3
8.
Jenkins, Mary A. 4 94
6
7.
Higgins, William H.
4
98
2
9.5
Keith, Elizabeth A.
47
53
-
Hitch, Ansel G.
4
98
2
9.
Kempton, Susan W. 5 100
0 9.5
Hitch, Otis L.
78
22
5.
Liscomb, Louisa F. 4
96 4
9.9
Liscomb, Nat'l S. 4 93
Liscomb, Jane A. 4
93
7 9.5
Mayo, Benjamin A. 4
99 1
10
7.5
Marvell, Mary A. 4
81
19 8.5
Pease, John A. B. 4 65
Marvell, Julia M. 4 100 0
68
4
9.8 9.5
Pease, Leander F.
4 50
14
7.5
Mayo, Sarah T.
4
92 8 8.9
Robinson, Daniel L. 4
95
5
9.
Milan, Mary
4
99 2 7.5
Rogers, Henry H. 4 75
5
9.5
Nolan, Alice A.
4 100 0 10
Taber, Benjamin F. 4 96
4
7.5
Taber, Fred. M.
4 86
14
9.
Rand, Elizabeth,
4 100
.70
15
9.5
Terry, Franklin 4 81 19
Willcox, Charles F.
4 100 0
8.5 Sawyer, Lucy T.
4
99 1
10
Sawyer, Ellen M. 4
96
4
10
Taylor, Helen M. 4
72
4
98 80
2
10
Taylor, Margaret A. 4
Terry, Lydia A.
4 100 0
9.
Tripp, Mary A.
4 76 4 10
Vincent, Phebe G. 4 90
10 8.5
Willcox, Susan P.
100
10
Willcox, Sarah H.
4 100
0 0 10
-
Delano, Nancy
4 100 0 9.8
Copeland, Elisha 4 67 3 8.
Eldredge, Mary E.
4 100 0 9.5
32
Fitch, Henry W.
4 100
0
10
-
Morton, Cordelia A. 4 50
10
10
Montague, David B. 4
20 20
35
-
9.
Pease, Nancy C. 4 74 6 8.
Robinson, Frances T. -
38
32 0
10
Tobey, Nathaniel G. 4 82 7
9.
Simmons, Eliza A. 4
Smith, Ellen C.
4 88
12
8.5
Willcox, Lemuel T. 4 100 0
10 Sawyer, Caroline,
100
0
9.8
54 6 10
Tripp, Laura B. 5
18 10
Thompson, Eliz. E.
20 10
Soule, William T. 4 83
17
7.5
8.5
Love, Ann E. 4 100 0 7.5
Mitchell, William A. 4 70
Pease, Simon O. B. 4 96 4
8.
Mitchell, Sarah F. 4
75
25
Hitch, Susan H. 4 98 2 7.5
Gerrish, George F.
Hammond, Catharine 4
4
Cook, Edward B. - 59 12
7
9.7
Principal.
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placed facing both north and east. The rafters were prettily decorated with flowers, and at the rear of the platform the wall was hidden by flags and a bank of potted plants. The exercises were very interest- ing and held the closest attention of the audience to the close of the program." Among those who participated were : - Recitation-Red Riding Hood, Annie May Nye, Room 3; Recitation-The True Queen, Gracie Nickerson and Mamie Flood, Room 4; Singing-Like the Little Birdies, Grace Dodge, Lida Carpenter and Annie Taber, Room 2; Recitation-Hole in the Pocket, Tommy Clark, Room 2; Recitation-Sticks, Winston Valentine, Room 2; Recitation-Don't, Anna Fuller, Room 7; Recitation-Going of Errands, Russie Hath- away, Room 8; Recitation-The Old Dame's Prayer, Essie Jackson, Room 4; Violin Solo, Robbie Bisbee, Room 7; Recitation-Hindoo Heathen, Alton Paull, Room 8; Recitation-Waiting, Bessie Hanna, Room 4; Recitation-Pipes of Lucknow, Mabel Potter, Room 8; Recitation-Little Chicken, Lida Carpenter, Room 2; Recitation-I'll be a Man, Eddie Sanders, Room 1; Recitation-Valedictory, Carrie Jenkins, Room 8.
Thus the first year of educational life for the grades in the Rogers School on Center street, remembered by scores, concluded.
Teachers and Prize Winners. - The teachers of the building were as follows: Room 1. Lena A. Chubbuck; Room 2. Ruth E. Sears; Room 3. Ida E. Cundall; Room 4. Sara B. Clarke; Rooms 5 and 6. High School, with Z. Willis Kemp, Principal, and Annie J. Fairchild, Assistant ; Room 7. Lucy F. Winchester ; Room 8. Amanda F. Sears. Miss Sears resigned in 1887, Miss Annie Delano taking her place.
In accordance with the wish of Mr. Rogers, a motto was to be chosen by the pupils for each room, and prizes were given by the donor of the building for the best motto of the author from whose works the quotation was taken, the prize being the works of the author. The names of the successful contestants were announced on the afternoon of December 18, 1885 and were as follows : Room 1. Bessie W. Hathaway; Room 2. Minnie H. Smythe, Henry W. Wilde (duplicate) ; Room 3. Nellie T. Maxfield, Emma Rogers, (duplicate) ; Room 4. Clara M. Danielson ; Room 5. Lizzie E. Beetle ; Room 6. Jeannie C. King; Room 7. Alice E. Gifford; Room 8. El- bridge G. Chace.
At this time of writing it can be plainly discerned that several of the winners have ended their earthly careers. After the mottoes had been selected, it was suggested as a worthy project that the mot-
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toes be printed by pupils skilled in artistic work, then framed and hung on the walls of the respective rooms. In each instance the pictures of the authors were also hung in the room of his quotation.
On Thursday, April 21, 1938, more than half a century after the Rogers prizes had been awarded, the writer visited the building with the curiosity of inspecting the rooms to note, perchance, any vestige remaining of the pictures of the authors or the framed quota- tions. After careful scrutiny and inquiry, it was found that only one of the eight authors selected in 1885, remained in the rooms. In Room 5, the upper northeast room, hung the picture of Nathaniel Hawthorne, in the very room in which it was originally placed, the only trace of the exciting contest of more than 62 years ago. The search in the rooms for any of the framed quotations was absolutely futile. Upon inquiry of the principal and janitor, it was ascertained that just one of the eight quotations was in existence, although not in any of the rooms.
I quote the mottoes of those early days :
Room 1 "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well."
Room 2 "Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart." Lowell.
Room 3 "Be firm! One constant element in luck is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck." Holmes.
·Room 4 "God give us grace, each in his place to bear his lot, and murmuring not, endure and wait and labor." Whittier.
Room 5 "Ambition finds its fuel here." Hawthorne.
Room 6 "He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled." Emerson.
Room 7 "Gather and treasure up the good." Bryant. The · original, framed motto of Room 7 hangs before us as we write.
Room 8 "The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame." Longfellow.
Early Private Schools. - Private schools, the signed advertise- ments of which are preserved that inquirers may freely obtain more information, existed, in Fairhaven, as follows:
"Fairhaven Vestry School" December, 1820 J. S. Merrihew
"French Class" December, 1825 C. Windsor
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"Long Plain Boarding School" 1831-1851
"Dancing School" December, 1831
F. C. Schaffer
"Writing School" May, 1833 William H. Simmons
"Fairhaven Classical School"
February, 1834 J. Briggs
"Singing and Penmanship"
April, 1834 William Gould
"High School for Young Ladies"
April, 1835 Miss E. L. Blackler
"Instruction in Sacred Music" 1835 L. Hayden
"School" May, 1837
A. Cummings Milliken
"North Fairhaven Boarding" 1837-1848 David Russell
"Fairhaven Writing Academy"
December, 1839
"Fairhaven New Academy".
September, 1842 L. L. Bartlett
"Woodberry Cottage School"
1842-1854 Charlotte Gould
"A Select School" April, 1844 1844-1847
"Union Seminary"
"Writing School'
1878
D. McB. Thaxter Alonzo Tripp
"Dancing School' October, 1878 Mr. Gustin
CHAPTER XI
The Academy -- The High School
Old Records Discovered. - The original records of the New Bedford (Fairhaven) Academy are before us. On the first page we read the following : "A record of votes for an Academy, New Bedford. It having been proposed to build an Academy in this town, and be- ing assembled on the 13th of April, 1798, came into the following agreement, viz., We, the subscribers, hereby promise to take and build the proportion, set against our names, of an Academy between the Villages of Fairhaven and Oxford, fifty feet and half by twenty-four feet and half, two-story high, agreeable to the plan exhibited by the Rev. Mr. I. Weston, and said Academy is to be completed in the year 1799, and also voted that it shall consist of six- teen shares and no more, and each share to be entitled to one vote, provided, nevertheless, that no one person or proprietor shall be en- titled to more than three votes, and the said Academy shall be known by the name of the New Bedford Academy. (Signed) John Alden, Isaac Shearman, Levi Jenne, Noah Stoddard, Noah Stoddard for Nicholas Stoddard, Killey Eldredge, Thomas Delano, Jethro. Allen, Joseph Bates, Robert Bennett, Reuben Jenne, Nicholas Taber, Luther Wilson, Benjamin Lincoln."
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