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00:01Here are Robert Young and Jane Wyatt
00:07with Ellen O'Donohue, Billy Gray, and Lauren Chapin
00:11in Father Knows Bed.
00:16Margaret!
00:17Yes, dear?
00:18Oh, come on down and meet an old friend of yours.
00:20Come on.
00:23Oh, come on in, Frog.
00:25Frog, hello!
00:28Well, it's so good to see you again.
00:30Senora.
00:31My goodness, how many times I've wished you were still doing our gardening.
00:35No one can make things grow the way you can.
00:37No, Frog won't be available because he's taking on a big new project.
00:40Si, I will be the big gardener for the civil circus.
00:44No, civil service. It's a city job.
00:46Oh, that's wonderful.
00:48Frog!
00:49Oh, boy, Frog, are you coming back to work for us?
00:52Remember how much fun we used to have riding me in your wheelbarrow?
00:55Come on, let's go out and do it again.
00:57Whoa, kid, the reason Frog is here...
00:59Frog!
01:00Well, how are you?
01:01We're here in Gaffey.
01:02We're gonna try to pump a little lifeblood into our miserable lawn.
01:05No, Frog is going to garden for the city.
01:07Hey, that's wonderful.
01:08Actually, he's starting out as a temporary worker.
01:11Before he gets the job officially, he has to pass a civil service test.
01:14That's where you come in, Betty.
01:15Me?
01:16Yup, you're gonna be his teacher.
01:17All the material he has to know is in this book.
01:20But you'll have to work fast because the test is a week from Saturday.
01:23Is that right?
01:24Sure.
01:25Anytime okay with me.
01:26I'm sure that's what it is.
01:27So, Betty, take your pupil in the den and start cramming.
01:30Okay, Frank.
01:31Come on.
01:32Oh, but I think this puts you out too much farther, senorita.
01:34Oh, no.
01:35Come on, Frank.
01:36You have to learn this stuff.
01:37Remember what the man said.
01:38See, he say, I must become a steady and respectable citizen.
01:43That will make me happy.
01:45And you know, that's the most important thing for a man to be, happy.
01:48Yes, of course, Frank.
01:49You know, I'm awful lucky he told me I was not happy or I would not never have known it.
01:54But, Frank.
01:55And it would be a terrible sad thing to go through life unhappy and not know how miserable you are.
02:00Boy, I'm lucky I find out.
02:03Well, I better help you study this.
02:04Yeah, me too.
02:05Well, what's all about being happy?
02:07Who ever told Frank he was unhappy?
02:09The judge.
02:10The judge?
02:11Oh, no.
02:12Don't tell him he's in trouble again.
02:15Well, with a man whose mind works in the rare channels that Frank's does, it's hard to tell trouble from normal.
02:22But if you have a cup of nice hot coffee for me, I'll tell all.
02:27So, Frank began to garden for Mr. Brendan.
02:31The banker owns the big place on the hill.
02:33And, of course, Frank began to buy a lot of fine shrubs and trees without Mr. Brendan's permission.
02:39And, uh, charging them to Mr. Brendan, also without permission.
02:42Well, he never learned anything about business.
02:44I don't know.
02:45Anyway, when this whopping big bill arrived, Mr. Brendan got mad.
02:48Thought Frank was running some kind of a rocket.
02:51And hauled poor old Frank into court.
02:54Oh, dear.
02:55Well, how did you get involved?
02:57Well, it seems the judge asked Frank if he had an accomplice.
03:00Well, Frank thought this was some kind of an honor.
03:03So he named me to do me a favor.
03:06Oh, no.
03:07Well, it sounds just like him.
03:09Were you able to convince the judge that you were innocent?
03:11Oh, yes.
03:12But I couldn't quite convince him that Frank is an unusual and impractical man dedicated to
03:17making the world beautiful and the people in it happy.
03:20Oh, I wish he could have been there today when the judge tried to explain the case to Frank.
03:25We were sitting in the judge's chambers, and finally the judge leaned over and looked at Frank very seriously.
03:30Now, look, Frank, you simply cannot charge a couple of hundred dollars worth of trees and shrubs to Mr. Brendan, or to anybody else for that matter, without that person's authorization.
03:43Do you understand?
03:44Okay to say I do?
03:46Hmm.
03:47I do.
03:48Now, Mr. Brendan had you pull out all those shrubs and plants, and he refuses to pay for them.
03:53But somebody's got to pay for them.
03:55And that's you.
03:57Now, locking you up won't help you do that.
03:59So I'm going to release you into the custody of Mr. Anderson.
04:02Now, the first thing that you have to do, Frank, that's an odd sort of a name.
04:09Frank.
04:10What is that, uh, Spanish?
04:13Oh, no.
04:14It's my first-class USA name.
04:16Frank.
04:17How do you spell that?
04:19F-R-R-N-K.
04:23Frank.
04:24It's Frank.
04:26Oh, I see.
04:27Frank.
04:28Si.
04:29Frank.
04:30Well, the first thing you have to do, Frank, I'm talking to you.
04:40Senor George, you are not treating these plants nice.
04:44They need the water.
04:46Uh, yeah, sure.
04:47See, but...
04:48They are not happy.
04:49Uh, yes, Frank, I...
04:50Why you not water them?
04:52I'll water them.
04:54But right now...
04:55You promise?
04:56All right, I promise.
04:58If you'll promise me a couple of things.
05:01You betcha.
05:02Okay.
05:03Anything.
05:04All right.
05:05You're going to have to make a weekly payment of $20 every Friday until that nursery is paid
05:11back for all those plants you charged to Mr. Brendan.
05:13Okay?
05:14Okay?
05:15Okay.
05:16Okay.
05:17Okay.
05:18You'll have to get a job.
05:19A steady job.
05:20Now, there's a job open with the city as assistant gardener.
05:24Now, the city can put you on right away.
05:27But you'll have to pass a civil service examination in order to keep the job.
05:31Now, the examination is going to be held on, uh...
05:34Just a minute.
05:35Let me see here.
05:36What do you say?
05:37I'll explain later.
05:39Uh, week from next Saturday, room 219 at 9 a.m.
05:44Uh, they'll give you a book to study.
05:47Now, you do these things, Frank, and you'll lead a much better life.
05:52I will?
05:53Yes.
05:54It'll keep you out of trouble, and you'll become a steady, responsible citizen.
06:01Only in this way, Frank, can you be happy.
06:07Happy?
06:08By the golly, senor, I sure glad I find out how unhappy I am.
06:17I will turn over the new leaf.
06:20And you turn over, too.
06:22What are those?
06:24I don't know who made the biggest impression on whom, Frank or the judge.
06:28I do know that Frank is completely convinced that responsibility is the key to happiness.
06:32Oh, I hope so.
06:33He's such a rare and wonderful person otherwise.
06:36Do you think he'll be able to pass that examination?
06:39Well, that all depends on how good a teacher Betty is.
06:43No, no, Frank.
06:44Now, listen to the question very closely.
06:46C.
06:47Now, just pick out the one of these answers that's right.
06:49You betcha.
06:50Okay.
06:51Okay.
06:52A compost heap should, A, be protected from leaching.
06:55B, should never include humus.
06:58C, should always be set up in a wooden box.
07:01Oh, they're all mixed up.
07:04I always put in humus and then throw in soil.
07:07And that box idea is no good.
07:09Who made up the crazy questions?
07:11Frank, the answer is A.
07:14A what?
07:16Just the letter A.
07:17The first answer.
07:18The one about protecting the compost from leaching.
07:21Well, now, that's the only part they got right.
07:24Now, the way I make a compost heap I own...
07:26See, Frank, Frank.
07:27In this exam, they don't care how you do it.
07:29All they want to know...
07:30Well, now, why'd they hire me?
07:32When I go down there to work tomorrow, I better straighten them out on this stuff.
07:37Fine, but right now, let's...
07:38I'll get it.
07:39Now, let's try once more.
07:45Now, you must understand that some of these answers are wrong.
07:48You said it.
07:49You think they know better.
07:51Well, now, listen closely.
07:53In pruning rose bushes, you were always supposed to A.
07:58Okay.
07:59Okay.
08:00Okay, I'll get right on it, Miss Halverson.
08:02Goodbye.
08:03Miss Halverson?
08:04Evidently a campfire girl activity, huh?
08:06Yes, we're going out in the country and nick for old Indian arrowheads.
08:10I have to get the transportation.
08:12Frank, you listening?
08:13We only need four cars.
08:14Frank, woo!
08:16Sure.
08:17Hold on a minute.
08:18I was just thinking.
08:19This is a big arrowhead hunt.
08:20I know of a place where there are buried lots of fleet arrowheads.
08:23I better tell little Kathy.
08:25Frank!
08:28Boy, he's gonna do so bad in that test,
08:30he's gonna have to take it over three times just to flunk it.
08:36Oh, good evening, Frank.
08:38Come in.
08:39Gracias, senora.
08:40Buenas noches.
08:44Oh, what's the matter?
08:45Is something wrong with your back?
08:46Oh, no, it is nothing.
08:47But you know this new civil circus job they put me on temporary?
08:51Boy, sure, it's a funny kind of gardening.
08:54Oh?
08:55We do not plant the flowers or the trees or prune the bushes.
08:59All we do is shovel dirt for a thing they call tennis courts.
09:02Tennis courts?
09:03Tennis courts?
09:04Si, you shovel dirt all day in the big truck.
09:06You shovel and sho...
09:09These mean happy sure hard on the back.
09:12Well, Frank, working with flowers will probably come later,
09:14when you get the job officially.
09:16But before you can do that, you have to pass that examination.
09:19So you work just as hard as you can on that, okay?
09:22Si, senor.
09:23Oh, one more thing.
09:24Tomorrow is Friday, your first payday.
09:27Now, what does that mean?
09:29Means I get paid.
09:31Yes, but what are you supposed to do with the money?
09:34Oh, si.
09:35In the nursery today, I see the most beautiful flowering tulip tree.
09:40And it belongs right out there in your front yard.
09:42No.
09:43Oh, no?
09:44No, Frank, you're not to spend your money for anything.
09:48Until you pay back every cent of that bill that you owe.
09:51Now, tomorrow, the minute you get paid, you go straight to this place
09:54where you charged all that stuff to Mr. Brendan,
09:57and you pay them $20.
09:59Is that clear?
10:00Si, senor.
10:01Now, if you don't make that payment, they'll report you to the court.
10:03And you don't want that to happen now, do you?
10:05Oh, no. I would not never want nothing like that. No.
10:08All right, then.
10:09Now, you hop in the den and start working on your lessons.
10:11Betty's waiting for you.
10:13Si, senor. Con permiso.
10:15Well, this being an accomplice is harder than I thought it would be.
10:23Yes?
10:24Oh, hello, Judge.
10:27What?
10:28He didn't?
10:29Well, that's strange.
10:31He promised me faithfully last night
10:33he'd make that payment the minute he got his wages today.
10:37Well, now, wait.
10:38I'm sure he didn't do this intentionally.
10:40Something must have happened.
10:42No, now, wait.
10:44I'll see that the payment is made if you'll just give him another chance.
10:49Now, don't worry. I will.
10:52All right.
10:53Yes.
10:54Goodbye.
10:58Oh.
11:01Yes.
11:02Oh, hello, honey. Can I call you back in a little bit?
11:04I have a big problem now.
11:06What? He is?
11:08Well, he's the problem.
11:09What's he doing there?
11:11He's just planted a flowering tulip tree in our front yard.
11:15He was supposed to use his money to make his first...
11:18Let me talk to him.
11:22Hello, Frog.
11:23Frog, what in the world is the matter with you?
11:26You can't spend your money on tulip trees now.
11:28You're on probation.
11:29Now, why didn't you make that payment?
11:33Well, I was going to.
11:35But then I start thinking.
11:36Why should I give all this money to the monkeys who cause me all the trouble?
11:40Are they my friends?
11:42No.
11:43Is the Senor Henderson my friend?
11:45Yo darbecho.
11:46So I say to myself, Frank, what kind of a dog of a man you be if you do not take care of your friends first?
11:54So, I buy the treats.
11:57Well, tell me this.
11:59How much of your wages do you have left?
12:01Oh, I have a whole big...
12:04Little bunch.
12:05Wait, please. I look.
12:06Senora?
12:07Senora, would you count how much dinero I have left?
12:17Just to see if we get both the same answers?
12:22Um, you have, uh, ninety-four cents.
12:25I have ninety-four.
12:28I have ninety-four centavos.
12:32He says not enough.
12:34Count it again, please.
12:35No, no, never.
12:36All right, Frank.
12:37Now, listen to me.
12:38There are several things you have to get straight.
12:41To begin with, you now owe me for the first payment.
12:44Because I'm making it for you.
12:46Ah, it is good to have the thing settled.
12:48Buenos dias, senor.
12:50Frank.
12:51Frank!
12:52Boy!
12:53That Senor Henderson.
12:54He is the most nice accomplice I ever have.
12:58Yes, senora.
13:02Daddy, you have to drive your car in that arrowhead, huh?
13:04I just lost Mr. Davis.
13:06He has to stay home and paint a service porch.
13:08Why can't Mrs. Davis drive?
13:10She has to stay home and watch him, or he'll do it wrong.
13:14How about it, Daddy, huh?
13:16Ah, okay, put me down.
13:18Oh, uh, when did you say this big trip was going to be?
13:20This Saturday morning.
13:21Okay.
13:22Oh, no!
13:23That's the morning Frank takes his civil service test.
13:25I have to be down there to make sure he takes it.
13:27But gee!
13:28Angel, we can't take a chance on Frank missing that test.
13:31Oh, no.
13:32He's on thin enough ice as it is.
13:34His foreman almost fired him today, and he hasn't even got the job yet.
13:37At least not officially.
13:38Oh, dear.
13:39What did he do?
13:40Well, he...
13:42You know, they're putting in some tennis courts.
13:44Clay, not cement.
13:45They finished one court today and put up the net.
13:47Well, Frank didn't think it looked very pretty.
13:49So, on his lunch hour, he went out and got a hold of some morning glories and planted them so they'd climb on the net.
13:55Oh, no.
13:56He thought that would make everybody happy.
13:59The foreman took a pretty dim view of it.
14:02Oh, mother, I...
14:03Oh, you're just the one I want to see.
14:04When Frank comes over tonight for his lesson, really pour it on him.
14:07He hasn't much time left.
14:08Well, I know that, Father, but...
14:10I just have to go to the library to do some work of my own, so someone else will just have to quote Frank tonight.
14:15I'll be glad to do it if somebody will get me some cards for Saturday.
14:18Here, mother, you can do it.
14:20Just start here with these true and false questions.
14:22Just tell me if these statements are true or false.
14:25Si, shoot.
14:26It is difficult to transplant plants which have tap roots.
14:30If you mean this in your foreman I work for, it would be worse than difficult.
14:34Be impossible.
14:35Yes, but is it true or false?
14:38Oh, it's true.
14:39He don't know nothing about plants.
14:41Today, I plant a whole bunch of nice morning glories and...
14:46Frank, just tell me, is the question true or false?
14:51What question?
14:52Well, the one about transplanting plants with tap roots.
14:56Well, now, that's hard to do, but not for me.
14:59The way I...
15:00Frank, all I want you to do is just say true or false.
15:04Excuse me, Mom.
15:05Mrs. Carter's on the phone.
15:06She has to go out of town so she can't handle the decorations on...
15:09Well, I forgot what she said now.
15:12Oh, well, that's that party our church group is giving over to the children's hospital today.
15:15Yeah, well, that's the one.
15:16She wants to know if you'll handle the decorations for her.
15:18Oh, dear.
15:19How can I get decorations together at this late date?
15:22Well, tell her I'll try somehow.
15:25Okay.
15:29Well, now, let's see.
15:30Where were we?
15:31You was asking me the one about with the foreman transplant the bushes, and the answer is no.
15:35Oh, yes.
15:37What?
15:38What foreman?
15:39Oh, senora, you are almost as bad mixed up as the hombre who wrote the book.
15:44Well, now, wait, Judge.
15:46How do you know Frank didn't show up for work this morning?
15:49The foreman of his crew is standing right here beside me.
15:52Have they saddled me with that guy?
15:54I'll never know.
15:55Look, I don't know how many more chances we can give him.
15:58I know I can get along without him.
16:00All right, do you have any idea where he is?
16:03No, but I'll find him somehow.
16:05And I'll get him back on the job as quickly as I can.
16:08And I'm sure this won't happen again.
16:10All right.
16:12Goodbye.
16:16Now, where shall I look?
16:20Yes.
16:21Oh, hello, honey.
16:22I hate to say this, dear, but you called me at the worst possible time.
16:25Guess who's here at the children's hospital helping us to decorate for the party?
16:30Oh!
16:32Muy bonito.
16:34Maybe you can convince him.
16:36Now, wait a minute.
16:37Frank, would you come here a minute?
16:39Mr. Anderson wants to talk to you.
16:41Oh, the senora Anderson.
16:42That is nice.
16:45Hello, senora complice.
16:47Oh, you should see how muy bonito the senoras are fixing up a place.
16:51The niños will be also happy.
16:54Huh?
16:55Oh, si, si.
16:58Pronto.
16:59Goodbye.
17:03I guess I make a boo-boo.
17:05Looks like I never gonna learn how to be steady or happy.
17:11Goodbye, senora.
17:12Excuse me for interrupting your lesson, Frank.
17:22But, uh, I wanna warn you that, uh, well, tomorrow morning you have to take this test.
17:28And, actually, this is your last chance.
17:32You've messed things up pretty well so far, and if you fail this test...
17:37Dad, he won't. You oughta hear him rip off this stuff now.
17:39Just listen to him. We're nearly through here.
17:42Let's see, where were we?
17:43Oh, yeah.
17:44Bordeaux mixture.
17:46Fungicide.
17:47Right.
17:48Dutch elm.
17:49Disease of the tree.
17:50Right.
17:51Wegalia.
17:52Shrub.
17:53Yes, that's it.
17:54You see, Father, he's got it.
17:55Say, that's all right, Frank.
17:57Very good.
17:59Now I'll be able to sleep tonight.
18:00That's the best time to do it.
18:03Well, you, uh, be at the city hall tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.
18:06Oh, uh, you better make it a little before 9.
18:10Room 219.
18:11I'll be there, too.
18:13Oh, yes, uh, you give this to the man in charge there.
18:17This authorizes you to take the test.
18:20Okay?
18:21Si, senor.
18:22Oh, really?
18:23Oh, boy, that's Keenan Salverson.
18:25Yeah, I'll be there. Bye.
18:27Bye.
18:28Whoopee!
18:30We're upset on the airhead hunt.
18:31We're going on a bus.
18:33Hey, everything okay cool, eh?
18:35Hey, Bobby, we're going on a bus.
18:37Oh, that's wonderful.
18:39Um, how's the lesson coming?
18:40Just great.
18:41Terrific.
18:42Frank's gonna do very well.
18:43You go home and get a good night's rest, Frank,
18:45and I'll see you at room 219 before 9 a.m., okay?
18:48Si, then I will start being happy.
18:51Official.
18:52Buenas noches.
18:54May things go well with all of you.
18:57And me, too.
18:59We've all been pulling for you, Frank.
19:01You bet we will, Frank.
19:02Gracias.
19:12Oh, are they starting the examination now?
19:14Will there be one more fellow coming?
19:16I'm sure he'll be...
19:17He better hurry.
19:18I...
19:27Hello, Mr. Anderson.
19:28Oh, hello, Judge.
19:30Well, is your boy taking the test?
19:32Well, uh, not yet.
19:33He's, uh, he's a little late.
19:35Late?
19:36Oh, now, don't tell me.
19:37Oh, but I'm sure he'll be here.
19:38He's been studying very hard.
19:39He knows all the materials.
19:41Last night, he was snapping out the answers.
19:43Hello, Judge.
19:44Is that Frank character in there?
19:45No, he isn't.
19:46That's just what I figured.
19:48That creep has stolen one of my trucks.
19:50Oh, now, wait.
19:51I'm sure he didn't steal it.
19:52No.
19:53Well, it's gone.
19:54He claimed he lost a slip he needed to take this test,
19:56and he asked if he could borrow a truck to go find it.
19:59But he never come back.
20:00And I need that truck, and I need the shovels and stuff in it.
20:03I've already reported it as a stolen truck.
20:06Well, I figured it was the only way you could deal with guys like him.
20:10Why don't you go find out if they got any line in that truck yet?
20:13I just don't understand this.
20:15I saw him just last night, and he...
20:17Let's face it.
20:18Now, after all, there are some people in this world
20:20that you just can't help no matter what you try to do for them.
20:23Of course, I did think that Frank was different.
20:26But he is different.
20:28You said it.
20:29You know what he did to a tennis court?
20:31He planted...
20:32Look, you people just don't understand this man.
20:35Anything?
20:36Service station reported seeing the truck parked just off Highway 39,
20:39beyond the Brandon turnoff.
20:42Oh, come on. Let's go get him.
20:44Wait, I'm going with you.
20:45And, Judge, you better come too.
20:46I don't have the explanation of this, but...
20:49I'd stake my life he didn't steal anything.
20:52Come on.
20:53Oh, all right.
20:55That's it. That's the truck.
21:02And most of the stuff is gone, too.
21:08Hey, come here. Hurry. I want to show you something.
21:12You know, it's leaving somewhere.
21:19Hey, look. I find wine.
21:21Genuine, bleep, first-class arrowhead, eh?
21:23He's our real one.
21:24Kathy?
21:25Why, Daddy?
21:26Come here.
21:27Please.
21:28What are you doing here?
21:29I'll explain later.
21:30Just tell me why you girls came in that truck.
21:32I thought you were coming in here.
21:33I thought you were coming in here.
21:35Oh, come here.
21:36Come here.
21:37What are you doing here?
21:38I'll explain later.
21:39Just tell me why you girls came in that truck.
21:41I thought you were coming in a bus.
21:43Well, you see, Frank showed up at the house,
21:45looking for some kind of slip.
21:47Mommy found it for him.
21:48And when he left, he gave me a ride to church,
21:50where the bus was.
21:51But the bus wouldn't run.
21:53So Frank says,
21:54Hop in the truck, I take you.
21:56So here we are.
21:58Boy, are we having fun.
22:00Well, you go back and dig some more.
22:01Okay.
22:05Frank.
22:06Will you come here, please, Frank?
22:09Oh, senor.
22:12Senor judge.
22:13Hey, senor foreman.
22:14Hey, grab your sense of trouble and start the thing.
22:16Boy, we're having a fiesta.
22:18Yes.
22:19Oh, I see.
22:20What about the examination?
22:21The examination?
22:24Oh, I forgot all about it.
22:26What a no good for nothing dog of a nombra ayer.
22:30That is exactly right.
22:32Frank, do you realize all the things that you've done wrong?
22:36To begin with, you failed to make the first payment on your debt.
22:40Instead, he bought me a tree to show me his gratitude for my helping him.
22:46Then you almost ruin a public tennis court by planting morning glories on it.
22:51Trying to bring a little beauty into the world.
22:56Then you jeopardize the job that we're trying to get you by missing almost a full day's work.
23:01In order to decorate for a party at the children's hospital.
23:08And now, you not only ruin your chances of the job by missing the test, you...
23:14You drive off with city property.
23:16So that a group of little girls wouldn't be disappointed.
23:19You know, I, uh...
23:26I didn't understand what you mean about this fellow.
23:29I think we're making the wrong approach.
23:32We've been trying to conform him into a steady eight-hour-a-day shovel man.
23:38Why, that's like shutting a rare mountain flower up in a box and expecting it to grow.
23:43And here's the real joke.
23:44We were going to make him happy.
23:49If we had just one half of his formula for happiness.
23:53What'd he say?
23:57You, uh, realize, Frank, that you're still going to have to pay back that money.
24:02Si, senor.
24:04Now tell me, can you get any of the kind of gardening jobs like you used to have?
24:09You know, the kind of gardening job you like to do.
24:11Oh, si, si, senor.
24:13All right, then you do that.
24:15But when you get paid...
24:18Oh, now we're right back where we started.
24:22There was only some way that you could have a business manager.
24:28Business manager?
24:29Business manager?
24:30Okay, I got the best one in the whole world!
24:47Senor Dodd?
24:49Senor Foreman?
24:50Hey, he's talking big, isn't he?
24:52Senor Dodd?
24:54Senor Foreman?
24:55Hey, he's talking big, isn't he?
25:20In the middle?
25:22Do you know what he's talking about?
25:24They may be alright.
25:26I could help her in these teens.
25:29But we can help you if they look at this.
25:32Oh, don't stop it.
25:35armas.
25:37And you have a bastard.
25:39You don't have a adelant element here.
25:41Forced right no?
25:43I never thought of behind it.
25:45I'll ask esperar many more irrational things.
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