Winner of Corgyncombe's Tasha Tudor Book Giveaway!

Lily Dibble Dabble Draws a Winner!

Gathered at the marble water pool, the Dibble Dabbles have placed leaves with numbers written on the back, representing each entry in the Corgyncombe Courant Tasha Tudor Birthday Celebration Giveaway of the book "Drawn From New England, Tasha Tudor; A Portrait in Words and Pictures by Bethany Tudor". Mama Duck has given strict orders to her little ducklings to stay out of the water and to keep from dibble dabbling in the pool of leaves! Knowing how ducks love water, this is extremely difficult!


There is a bit of a squabble as Lily and Debbie Dibble Dabble both want to pick the winner of the Giveaway! Lily is the first one to grab a leaf and so the winning number is 22 which is:
Julie at Life in Skunk Hollow!

Congratulations, Julie! We know you will enjoy this book!


Mama Dibble Dabble is wearing a handknit shawl that was made as a gift for Corgyncombe's doll Amelia by a friend of hers. Tillie Tinkham's Frocks & Fashions shoppe can be seen in the background. On August 28th, Tasha Tudor's birthday, on the very spot where Tillie Tinkham's shoppe stands in the photograph above, the floods from Irene raged through!

Bubbles Dibble Dabble is standing upon a pumpkin for a better view and Dilley Dibble Dabble is down by her Mama's side in a pink frock and bonnet, making her look like a little "Sunbonnet Baby" Duckling with only her orange bill peeking out!

Thank you to all of our dear readers who entered the Giveaway!

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Cider and Doughnuts!

"Treasures of Jolly Autumn" Washington Irving

Cider and doughnuts, a refreshing and delicious autumnal treat!

When I was growing up, my family usually enjoyed cider and popcorn on Saturday night. We liked the cider the best when it wasn't as sweet and it had, as we called it, "bees in it". Now I prefer my cider on the sweet side. At our wedding my husband and I served sweet cider.

At Tasha Tudor's wedding she served her guests 16 dozen doughnuts.


In 2005 I wrote a comparison between Meg's wedding and my wedding as we both had simple, country weddings.
In Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" Meg is the first of the sisters to get married. Reading about Meg's simple wedding reminded Diane a great deal of her own. Diane's 5th great grandfather Eliakim May was 1st cousin to Louisa's great grandfather Samuel May. In "Little Women" Meg said "I don't want a fashionable wedding, but only those about me whom I love, and to them I wish to look and be my familiar self." When Meg's proper Aunt March arrived at the wedding Meg ran out to greet her and the aunt saw that the groom was fixing a fallen garland, she told Meg "Upon my word, here's a state of things! You oughtn't be seen till the last minute, child." Meg replied "I'm not a show, aunty, and no one is coming to stare at me, to criticise my dress, or count the cost of my luncheon. I'm too happy to care what any one says or thinks, and I'm going to have my little wedding just as I like it." At the end of the chapter, after all of the festivities, one of the guests, who was quite fashionable, said to her husband, "That is the prettiest wedding I've been to for an age, Ned, and I don't see why, for there wasn't a bit of style about it."


The reception was held in an old 1796 building that was originally in the Kaatskills.
It was decorated for the reception in elegant, dignified simplicity.
An artist friend of Diane's brought in several portraits that she had painted.


Always favorites to read as the leaves are turning and the days are shortening are Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle". The Kaatskill mountain area and the Hudson River valley has been home to my ancestors since the 1600s and has always felt like home to me.


Diane's great great grandfather, who was born near the Kaatskills.
Diane always thought of him as the family's own Rip Van Winkle.
On the 1865 Agricultural Census he is listed as having 30 apple trees, 20 bushels of apples, and 1 barrel of cider on his farm. In 1864 he had 10 acres in meadows for hay and 10 tons of cut hay. In 1864 he had 2 acres of Indian corn and harvested 20 bushels.


Hay stored for winter in the high big old barn at Corgyncombe, that we call "The Ark".

As Ichabod, the "itinerant pedagogue", is journeying on his horse to attend the party at the Van Tassel house, Washington Irving wrote the following in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow":

"It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day, the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be head from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field."

"The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking, from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variety around them. There was the honest cock-robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds; and the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail, and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light-blue coat and white under clothes; screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove."


The apple stem is caught in the V of the old apple picker and a gentle tug will bring the apple from the tree. It is then brought down in its cage and deposited carefully in a basket.

"As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way, his eye, ever open to every symptom of culinary abundance ranged with delight over the treasures of jolly autumn. On all sides he beheld vast store of apples; some hanging in oppressive opulence on the trees; some gathered into baskets and barrels for the market; others heaped up in rich piles for the cider-press."

Corn harvested from the fields at Corgyncombe.

"Farther on he beheld great fields of Indian corn, with its golden ears peeping from their leafy coverts, and holding out the promise of cakes and hasty pudding; and the yellow pumpkins lying beneath them, turning up their fair round bellies to the sun, and giving ample prospects of the most luxurious of pies; and anon he passed the fragrant buckwheat fields, breathing the odor of the bee-hive, and as he beheld them, soft anticipations stole over his mind of dainty slapjacks, well buttered, and garnished with honey or treacle, by the delicate little dimpled hand of Katrina Van Tassel."

"Thus feeding his mind with many sweet thoughts and "sugared suppositions," he journeyed along the sides of range of hills which look out upon some of the goodliest scenes of the mighty Hudson."


Corgyncombe corn shock with pumpkins round and pumpkins in the wheelbarrow.

My daughter Sarah and I are researching ancestors who were married in the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow.

Amongst some of our early Dutch families are the Van Alens. There have been reports that Washington Irving was inspired by a Van Alen girl when he created the character Katrina Van Tassel.

Our direct ancestor Jacob Van Alen married Rachel Quackenbush. Corgyncombe's Quackenbush the Duck's name was inspired by our old Quackenbush families. Our early Quackenbush family had kilns and were famous for making bricks.


Dilley Dibble Dabble and Quackenbush at a Valentine tea party!
Quackenbush had a special red paper hat made for the Valentine's Day occasion, which sports one of Post Mistress Phidelia Finch's feathers tucked in the side. The instructions for making the paper hat is in the book, "Tasha Tudor's Old-Fashioned Gifts". The Corgyncombe Courant reporters Diane and her daughter Sarah have had a personal lesson in paper hat making from Tasha Tudor herself.


Picking apples with an old fashioned apple picker on a pole to reach the high ones. Diane takes great joy in using antique tools for their original purpose.

"A mellow October day, when the air was full of an exhilarating freshness which made the spirits rise, and the blood dance healthily in the veins. The old orchard wore its holiday attire; golden-rod and asters fringed the mossy walls; grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chirped like fairy pipers at a feast. Squirrels were busy with their small harvesting, birds twittered their adieux from the alders in the lane, and every tree stood ready to send down its shower of red or yellow apples at the first shake. Everybody was there, - everybody laughed and sang, climbed up and tumbled down; everybody declared that there never had been such a perfect day or such a jolly set to enjoy it, - and every one gave themselves up to the simple pleasures of the hour as freely as if there were no such things as care or sorrow in the world." - from "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Diane's 5th great grandfather was 1st cousin to Louisa May Alcott's great grandfather Samuel May.


Corgyncombe's favorite apples in Diane's old crock.


Peeling apples for a pie.


A Corgyncombe homemade apple pie.


Daisy made her own little apple pie, completely homemade by her "delicate little dimpled hand", to serve her friends and their Baby Dolls.


The little Dibble Dabble Duckies have their bills together quacking and discussing how to pick the winner of the Corgyncombe Courant Tasha Tudor Birthday Celebration Giveaway of the book "Drawn From New England, Tasha Tudor; A Portrait in Words and Pictures by Bethany Tudor". They have settled on a plan to pick the winner of this delightful book. Tomorrow's post will divulge the winner!!!


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Tasha Tudor Birthday Tea and Giveaway!!!

In From the Rain and Cozy at Tea Time!

Tea and cake at the Corgyncombe Tasha Tudor Birthday Celebration.
The cake was made using "Becky's Birthday Cake" receipt from "The Tasha Tudor Cookbook". August 28th, would have been Tasha Tudor's 96th birthday.

Melissa, with her basket, looks so fetching after her trip along Corgi Creek to gather flowers!

Corgyncombe's Trilly Tweet Sweet likes to gather flowers, too.
Here she has some lavender tucked under her wing!

Melissa has also made a cake to celebrate Tasha Tudor's Birthday with tea!

Debbie Dibble Dabble hops up on the chair to look at the tea party! Her hat was made by Corgyncombe's seamstress mouse Tillie Tinkham of Tillie Tinkham's Frocks and Fashions.

Melissa reminds us of Tasha Tudor's doll Melissa... very much so. Tasha Tudor's doll Melissa was her model for the illustrations in Tasha's book "A is for Annabelle". "A is for Annabelle", illustrated and written by Tasha Tudor, is about an old fashioned doll and some of her belongings from A to Z, such as her hat, earrings, hair ribbons, her heart shaped locket, and quilt. "A is for Annabelle" is one of Diane and her daughter Sarah's favorite Tasha Tudor books! Diane has placed real rose geraniums and forget-me-nots, some of the illustrated flowers in the border, on Tasha Tudor's illustration of Annabelle's skirt. If you love pretty things you will love this book as much as the Corgyncombe Courant does!

The inscription that Tasha wrote to Diane in the "A is for Annabelle" book: "To clever Diane, how I envy your spinning abilities! Tasha Tudor"

Melissa in the kitchen at Corgyncombe Cottage!
Seth Tudor made the chair, a miniature replica of one that Tasha Tudor sat in do her artwork.

Debbie Dibble Dabble the Duck
The Dibble Dabbles actually don't care if it rains, in fact they rather delight in it!

Wildflowers from along Corgi Creek.

Lily Dibble Dabble is excited to announce:
A Corgyncombe Tasha Tudor Birthday Giveaway!!!

In honor of Tasha Tudor's Birthday, the Corgyncombe Courant is having a Giveaway of the book
"Drawn From New England, Tasha Tudor; A Portrait in Words and Pictures by Bethany Tudor".
Bethany Tudor is Tasha's older daughter.
This is a beautiful copy of "Drawn From New England", the inside pages look like new!

Diane received a copy of "Drawn From New England" one memorable Christmas when the snow on the trees was Christmas card perfect and there was a light sparkly snow coming down.
"Drawn From New England" has photographs of Tasha as a child, her parents, her children, her dolls, some of Tasha's illustrations, and some photography by Nell Dorr. Bethany wrote about the family finding an old house in New Hampshire when she was a child and later Tasha's move to Vermont where her son Seth built her a wonderful old looking house! In the book, Bethany speaks of "Pumpkin Moonshine" Tasha's first published book, Tasha acquiring her first Corgi, seasonal celebrations, and many more interesting things in Tasha's life. The cover has a delightful photograph of Tasha and her Corgi lovingly smiling at each other! It is surrounded by Tasha Tudor's illustration of lovely wildflowers.

If you enjoy hearing about Tasha Tudor and the old fashioned things she pursued, then you will love this book!
(Lily Dibble Dabble is not included in the giveaway.)

To Enter the Corgyncombe Courant Tasha Tudor Birthday Celebration Giveaway of "Drawn From New England", leave a comment on this post "Tasha Tudor Birthday Tea and Giveaway!" or on the previous posts "Tasha Tudor Birthday 2011 Celebration and Giveaway!" or "A Corgyncombe Tasha Tudor Birthday Giveaway!".

This Giveaway is open to the Corgyncombe Courant's Dear Readers in the United States and Canada.

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Tasha Tudor Birthday 2011 Celebration and Giveaway!

A Tasha Tudor Giveaway of "Drawn From New England"!

A lovely green gingham frock from Tasha Tudor's Clothing Collection. A daisy head wreath seems to be the perfect touch that looks so Tasha Tudor like with the frock. Diane made the wreath from flowers around and about the old barn at Corgyncombe. The frock and wreath of daisies look like they belong at a Birthday party! Tasha used her wonderful clothing collection to draw from.

The daisy head wreath on the art stand made by Seth Tudor, son of Tasha Tudor, encircles an illlustration from Tasha Tudor's book "1 is One" with a young girl wearing a green gingham frock.

Wild flowers were always a favorite for Tasha Tudor to draw in her famous borders around her illustrations. On a mossy log, collected in the antique vasculum are Daisies, Chicory, Clover, and Joe-Pye Weed. Diane lines the inside of the vasculum with moss and the plant specimens really do stay fresh for several days.

This past Sunday, August 28th, would have been Tasha Tudor's 96th birthday.
Diane and her daughter Sarah were so blessed to have Tasha for a friend.

Diane and Sarah had many kindred interests in common with Tasha such as spinning, weaving, knitting, natural dyeing, dolls, corgyn, goats, birds, gardening (flowers, herbs, and vegetables), old fashioned clothing and frocks, fireplace and woodstove cookery, canning, sewing, quilting, old books, and the old ways of living.

These daily things remind us of Tasha. We had so many things in common.

How grateful we are to have been her friend and kindred spirit!

Apples were another favorite subject for Tasha Tudor to illustrate.
Pictured in the above photograph is the Red Astrachan Apple from an old book of old fashioned apples in the Corgyncombe Library. There is a tree at the end of our woodshed that produces an enormous amount of Red Astrachan apples.

Diane's work table at tea time.

A basket of this year's Red Astrachan Apples. These apples were organically grown at Corgyncombe.

The goat kiddles also like the Red Astrachan Apple tree but not for its apples but for its tasty leaves! They stand on their back hooves stretching and reaching for the prize leaves. They look like little ballerinas as they hop, stretch, and dance about on two hooves!

A charming lady wearing a dirndl, fashioning a flower wreath. Around the photograph are daisies and pinks that grow wild on the lawns at Corgyncombe. You can find girls wearing dirndls in Tasha Tudor 's illustrations.

Corgyncombe's little darling Clementine!

Old fashioned flowers made into a bouquet, in the center Golden Glow, then Calendula, and on the outer edge Goldenrod. The leaves on the outside are Joy-Pye Weed.

The door of the antique vasculum shows ladies and a young girl doing the wash with goats nearby. This reminds us of the Shirley Temple movie "Heidi" when she arrives with her Aunt in the village where the women are washing their clothes and she meets Peter the goatherd and the goats.

In the old days children would go out and about in the woods, fields, hills, and dales and gather plant specimens for studying botany and pressing. A tin vessel with a tight fitting lid would keep the flower specimens fresh. This tin vessel is called a vasculum and has a strap for carrying over your shoulder. When Emily Dickinson was a young lady she made an Herbarium with plant specimens. The specimens were pressed until dried, then put in a book and labeled.

Tasha Tudor illustrated "A Brighter Garden" a collection of poetry by Emily Dickinson. We named our Corgi Emily after Diane's great great grandmother Emily Jane (Jones) Shepard and Emily (Jones) Shepard's cousin Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, as well as Emily Dickinson's mother Emily (Norcross) Dickinson. Tasha did such lovely illustrations in "A Brighter Garden".

Whilst Melissa was in Europe she visited many Art Museums.
Amongst the places she toured were Switzerland, Germany, Austria, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and France.

Melissa is sister to Amelia, a doll who lives at Corgyncombe Cottage & Corg'ery.
Everyone at Corgyncombe Cottage was overjoyed that Melissa has returned from her European tour to join Amelia and her family and all at Corgyncombe Cottage for the Tasha Tudor Birthday Celebration!

A Morning Glory and Echinacea in the Corgyncombe Gardens.

The old photograph was taken in Chur, Switzerland, near where Johanna Spyri set her book "Heidi". The boy in the photograph has a vasculum with a strap over his shoulder and the girl has her vasculum beside her on the bench. We love their hats!

The boy's vasculum.

Here is Melissa with her hat, earrings, hair ribbon, and locket in the shape of a heart.
Melissa reminds us of Tasha Tudor's doll Melissa... very much so. Tasha Tudor's doll Melissa was her model for the illustrations in Tasha's book "A is for Annabelle".
"A is for Annabelle", illustrated and written by Tasha Tudor, is about an old fashioned doll and some of her belongings from A to Z, such as her hat, earrings, hair ribbons, and her heart shaped locket.

Diane's great great grandmum was also named Melissa. Melissa's grandparents lived at one time a few miles from where Tasha lived in Vermont.

The title page of Tasha Tudor's "1 is One" displayed with the daisy head wreath on the art stand that is a replica of the art stand that Tasha Tudor had.

A book about Tasha Tudor's life
"Drawn From New England, Tasha Tudor;
A Portrait in Words and Pictures by Bethany Tudor".
Details about the Giveaway at the end of this post.

Diane made the above photograph of Sarah and Tasha Corgi into a Valentine card that Tasha Tudor was delighted to receive. After Tasha received the card she illustrated the scene. The illustration appears in the book "The Art of Tasha Tudor". Tasha Corgi was named after Tasha Tudor, and Tasha Tudor was very honored and declared herself to be Tasha Corgi's Godmother. The Johnsons have had six corgyn: Tasha Corgi, Katrina Corgi, Ethlyn Maria Weaver Corgi, Emily Jane Jones Shepard Corgi, Eliakim May Corgi, and Lydia Rebecca Sly Corgi. The Johnsons are so grateful to Tasha for showing us through her illustrations how delightful corgyn can be!

Corgyncombe Cottage & Corg'ery is a little farm in the valley where the corgyn dwell. Corgyn is plural for corgi. A combe is a valley, dale, vale, or hollow. Diane and her daughter Sarah made up their own exclusive word: "Corg'ery" ....... a corg'ery being a farm where an abundance of delightful corgyn dwell. Some spelling variations of their own word Corg'ery include: Corgiery, Corgi'ery, Corgery, Corg'ry, Corgi'ry..

Herbs drying at the Corgyncombe Herbary.

Gathered Calendula.

Lily Dibble Dabble

Sarah thought Lucy would look lovely in a dirndl!

Tasha Tudor illustrated Sarah with the little tree in the snow with a moon overhead and Sarah feeding the goats in the barn. There is a sweet little corgi at Sarah's feet. The feeding the goats card is featured in the video "Take Peace, A Corgi Cottage Christmas with Tasha Tudor". The goat that Sarah is feeding reminds us of our Nubian goats Daisy and Clementine.

Christmastide feeding the animals, Corgyncombe Nubian Goat Kiddle Louisa May having Christmas dinner. Louisa May was named after Louisa May Alcott. Diane's 5th great grandfather was 1st cousin to Louisa May Alcott's great grandfather Samuel May. Tasha Tudor also illustrated "Little Women" written by Louisa May Alcott. Tasha Tudor frequently used her Nubian goats for models in her illustrations.

Hanging on the drying rack is Thyme, Parsley, Rosemary, and Sage from the Corgyncombe Garden of Herbs. Tasha Tudor illustrated a book called "A Basket of Herbs" written by Mary Mason Campbell.

On the table is a delightful find found right after Christmas, a wooden implement for crushing dried herbs. It was found at an estate sale near where my early New England ancestors lived. Maybe they used it! After herbs are crushed, they are put in glass jars or packaged and put in the herb and spice cupboard for storage.

Lavender, Dill, and Calendula are also hung to dry.

For years we have been inspired by our friend Tasha Tudor's doll families. Tasha Tudor made her dolls look so real and we know that they were real to her. Our dolls seem very real to us, too. Our doll families have many children, cousins, Mums, and Aunties who like to do all the favorite things that we like to do best!

Melissa gathered wild flowers from along Corgi Creek.
She is wearing an antique frock that we know Tasha would have loved!

The teapot reminds us of Tasha Tudor's flower and ribbon borders, especially those on the February Valentine's Day pages of "A Time to Keep".

Sarah in one of the Corgyncombe Cottage gardens in her frock from Tasha Tudor's antique frock collection.

Lily Dibble Dabble, on the floor, is hopping up and down asking Melissa if she has heard about the Corgyncombe Tasha Tudor Birthday Celebration Giveaway! Lily Dibble Dabble's sister Debbie Dibble Dabble has hopped up on the chair that Seth Tudor made, a miniature replica of one that Tasha Tudor sat in do her artwork.

Diane's yellow cupboard filled with yellowware.
On the bottom left are yellowware milk pans.
Tasha Tudor loved yellowware and frequently illustrated pieces from her collection.

Morning Glory in the Corgyncombe Gardens
"Grandpa Ott" heirloom variety

Tasha Tudor in her Marionette Theatre at Corgi Cottage.
We just love the happy look on her face!

A member of the Corgi Orchestra and Mert Bogart, Tasha Tudor's Marionettes.
Mert is a character in Tasha Tudor's books "Corgiville Fair", "The Great Corgiville Kidnapping", and "Corgiville Christmas".

Sylvie Ann and Ethlyn Corgi from Corgyncombe celebrated the
70th anniversary of "Pumpkin Moonshine" in 2008.

Tasha Tudor's first published book was "Pumpkin Moonshine" in 1938. In Tasha's book, Sylvie Ann went out to the cornfield to find the largest, best pumpkin. In "Pumpkin Moonshine", Sylvie succeeds in getting her pumpkin out of the cornfield but the pumpkin has multiple mishaps as it rolls uncontrollably down the hill. Tasha's real niece, Sylvie Ann, was the model for the Sylvie Ann in the book.

Tasha Tudor's Birthday Celebration is more than just a one day celebration. It's the every day kindred old fashioned tasks and the seasonal celebrations all throughout the year that we have in common with her.

Lily Dibble Dabble is excited to announce:
A Corgyncombe Tasha Tudor Birthday Giveaway!!!

In honor of Tasha Tudor's Birthday, the Corgyncombe Courant is having a Giveaway of the book
"Drawn From New England, Tasha Tudor; A Portrait in Words and Pictures by Bethany Tudor".
Bethany Tudor is Tasha's older daughter.

Diane received a copy of "Drawn From New England" one memorable Christmas when the snow on the trees was Christmas card perfect and there was a light sparkly snow coming down.
"Drawn From New England" has photographs of Tasha as a child, her parents, her children, her dolls, some of Tasha's illustrations, and some photography by Nell Dorr. Bethany wrote about the family finding an old house in New Hampshire when she was a child and later Tasha's move to Vermont where her son Seth built her a wonderful old looking house! In the book, Bethany speaks of "Pumpkin Moonshine" Tasha's first published book, Tasha acquiring her first Corgi, seasonal celebrations, and many more interesting things in Tasha's life. The cover has a delightful photograph of Tasha and her Corgi lovingly smiling at each other! It is surrounded by Tasha Tudor's illustration of lovely wildflowers.

If you enjoy hearing about Tasha Tudor and the old fashioned things she pursued, then you will love this book!
(Lily Dibble Dabble is not included in the giveaway.)

To Enter the Corgyncombe Courant Tasha Tudor Birthday Celebration Giveaway of "Drawn From New England", leave a comment on this post "Tasha Tudor Birthday Celebration 2011" or on the previous post
"A Corgyncombe Tasha Tudor Birthday Giveaway!".

This Giveaway is open to the Corgyncombe Courant's Dear Readers in the United States and Canada.

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The Corgyncombe Courant is saddened by the destruction of the floods as the result of Hurricane Irene and sends their prayers for all those effected.

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