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29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! he feels _proper pride_ about such and such a matter. But is there any such thing as _proper pride_? I can’t find it in the Bible. I do find, indeed, written there a great deal about pride and proud people."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God resisteth the proud, ... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stoop, stoop."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not know, says Franklin,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His friend, seeing what had happened, said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are young, and have to go through the world. Stoop as y... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How many of these last virtues can I say I am practising? Am I humble? Do I give, as I am able, of my time, or my money, or my sympathy to help any of my neighbours? Am I thoroughly pure in thought, word, and deed? Am I gentle and kind to all around me? Am I moderate in eating a... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When deep within our swelling hearts The thoughts of pride and anger rise, When bitter words are on our tongues, And tears of passion in our eyes; Then we may stay the angry blow, Then we may check the hasty word, Give gentle answers back again And fight a battle for our Lord."
... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will cut off your nose and your ears, said the governor; but Hilarion answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am a Christian still."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is life worth living? I never looked further than the title-page, but the title struc... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Repentance, means"
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God[#]."
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May we cultivate a sense of our own nothingness, and of God’s greatness; and may we put a generous trust in our good Lord, Who has done so much for us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May we never indulge unworthy thoughts, measuring our Lord’s tender mercies by ours;... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won’t believe anything I cannot understand!"
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter[#]."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brief life is here our portion; Brief sorrow, short-lived care: The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is _there_. The morning shall awaken, The shadows shall ... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away[#]."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vanisheth away;"
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And they put the young martyr bishop in an open boat, says one,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I die daily[#]."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me[#]."
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beheld, and lo! a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God whic... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sting of death is _sin_,"
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unto the godly, says David,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so we may say now that to the Christian there ariseth up a light greater and brighter than any David knew of in the darkness of death, even that light which came"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! that I might have but a quarter of an hour to make my peace with God."
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God[#]."
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward[#]"
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "so closely are the two connected here below. For instance, God sends a great and crushing sorrow; say, for instance, the death of a dear friend, or the sickness of one we love; and to us the news of this sorrow brings intense pain, deep suffering. And you may ask, why is this su... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between."
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My men, I want you to serve God."
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his[#]."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On what has now been sown Thy blessing, Lord, bestow; The power is Thine alone To make it spring and grow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have sp... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rise higher--learn from Christ, Who was lifted up, how to draw all men unto you, learn to think for them, to feel for them, to work for them, to suffer for them. And oh! don’t think such occupations as these will make you a gloomy man, or a dull companion."
},
{
"from": ... |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be not thou ashamed of the testimony of our Lord[#]."
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Scepticism and Faith,"
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can we Believe in Miracles?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Analogy of Religion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miracles."
}
] |
29080 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Moral Difficulties connected with the Bible."
}
] |
517687 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's something behind it all,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "VALLEY OF REEDS --THE O'NEIL HOMESTEAD--PIONEER HARDSHIPS--THE WAR AGAINST MALEUW,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE LION --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SLIM GERT O'NEIL BREAKS THE POWER OF THE MAKATEESE KING--JAFTA, KING OF THE MAPORS--MY TROUSERS ... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "VALLEY OF HEAVEN"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LEGAL EXECUTION"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THUNDER OF THE SHIELDS --NOT AFRAID TO DIE--THE WITCH-DOCTOR'S BLOODY WORK--WHAT LABOTSIBENI WANTED--THE BURIAL OF THE INDUNAS--RAIN-MAKING AND THE"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "RAIN STONE"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SPORTING THING"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LITTLE BLACK MAGIC BOX --CURING RHEUMATISM WITH TOOTH-PASTE, VASELINE, AND HAIR OIL--WOMEN AS CURRENCY--GIN, GOLD, AND COWS PAY FOR THE PICTURE RIGHTS--THE"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "FLU STRIKES--JENNIE, THE"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "BLAAU APP,... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GUNGA DIN"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MUTI"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "POISON TEST"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The White King of Swaziland, I was practically adopted by the savage rulers of that country and have always been received with the greatest honor and consideration by the various members of its royal family. My family have always been interested in Swaziland and there was seldom... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slim Gert, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Slick Dick"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would only give our enemies, the English, a chance to attack us from the sea, he said, ending the cabinet conference."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now they can't get to us through Portuguese territory."
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Great Trek,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But there were hundreds, even thousands, of Zulus to each white man, and the fight could not last long. All the white men were killed, and some were stabbed scores of times before they died. I do not know how their leader died, but we found him with a broken assegai in his hand ... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O'Neil's Farm"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Valley of Reeds,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Great Trek"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Valley of Reeds --The O'Neil homestead--Pioneer hardships--The war against Maleuw,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Lion --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slim Gert O'Neil breaks the power of the Makateese king--Jafta, King of the Mapors--My boyhood a... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lion"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Lion,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lion"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maleuwkop, in memory of the old"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lion. It was practically impregnable to a native army using only savage weapons. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "proper was on the top of the hill and was entirely surrounded by walls of ... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nkoos, which has the same meaning to our kaffirs as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your Majesty the King"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keeper of the Crown Jewels"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jass, which means"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Skunk,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The little nigger would make a skunk blush with envy. Let's call him The Skunk!"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strangers coming! he shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I smell oxen and wagons. White men coming up the Rietvlei!"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Klein Baas (meaning 'Little Boss'), he said, in his pathetic earnestness forgetting to address me by my native name,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mzaan Bakoor,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, you cannot wear them! he shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now I am a man; I am almost white! I am a man and you are little boys! Who am I that I should take notice of such dirt?"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yours is the guilt for the death of that boy, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You forgot you were a Boer and lowered yourself to the level of a Mapor! When you gave Sibijaan the trousers you became as the dirt under his feet. White men wear clothes; kaffirs g... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mzaan Bakoor by all the natives of our section of the Transvaal. The name means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He of the Great Ears, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He Who Hears Everything."
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mzaan Bakoor,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Hand Tom,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Black Hand Tom,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--as the message was delivered by Oom Tuys. My father took this to heart and sent back word that the Johannesburgers were invited to bring their race horses,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Johannesburgers have brought their best, he told father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Slim Gert, you will have to have all the luck in the world to beat their horses. Never have I seen better! They have also brought much money and are waiting for you to bet. Wi... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Hand Tom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is so fast, I assured them,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mzaan Bakoor, you little devil! he shouted, catching me by the ears."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you make so much fight? Why do you tell such lies? 'Black Hand Tom' will only eat the dust of these Johannesburg horses. They are race horses!"
},
{
"fr... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If 'Black Hand Tom' is so slow, then you bet against him. I dare you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I will. I am no fool!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Oom Tuys, then you bet with me first, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind, we'll get his money to-morrow!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't worry, Owen, my lad, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your father is not always such a fool as he might look. To-morrow night may have another tale to tell!"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Hand Tom. The horse would allow few to approach him, but he nuzzled my father's hand, as though to say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm fit for the race of my life. I will not fail Slim Gert!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Hand Tom"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is ready to do the very best he can. The rest is with God!"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you will never see King Buno!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Black Hand Tom"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see all these white men, Klaas, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are thieves. They have come here to steal all the Ou Baas's (Old Boss's) money. You've got to ride your best to-day. 'Black Hand Tom' is the best horse. He'll win if you ride him right. I... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I don't win the race I am willing to die! he said, and with this understanding we returned to the track. I found my father surrounded by the Johannesburg gamblers, and squeezed my way into the group to find much betting going on. With Boer shrewdness, father was demanding and... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Hand Tom"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Hand Tom"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Hand Tom swung wide and began to pass the other horses. One by one he caught them and went by. Each time he passed one the crowd fairly roared its head off. As they swept by on the beginning of the last lap there were only two horses ahead of ours, and they seemed tiring. ... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you have won your trip to Buno's kraal! This was the first inkling I had that he knew about the bet, and later I learned that he had agreed to my going because he felt my faith in him and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Black Hand Tom"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Valley of Heaven"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you are going to lose your son. Owen is going to spend the rest of his life in Swaziland; he is taking enough things to last him for the next hundred years!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We travel l... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My son, she said, putting her arms about me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is Oom Tuys's business, he would say."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask him why he is the servant of Buno!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The White King of Swa... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is how it happened that we Boers must pay him tribute. His father, Umbandine, built up the Swazi power until he had enough warriors to be dangerous to us and to all the surrounding tribes. Even the Zulus feared him. Now Buno, guided and advised by his mother, Queen Labotisi... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring Buno here, said Oom Paul,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He gave us the very devil, is the way Tuys tells about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oom Paul told us both that we were children, and bad children at that! He said that he was minded to soundly spank us both, and he was so fierce about it that I thought he was g... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You hear that, Mzaan Bakoor? Tuys asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are going to be royal guests and you will see the real Swaziland. Watch me and do as I do in all things, and you shall have much to tell when we get back to Rietvlei."
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here I am a king; he is lucky if I even look at him!"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one will know how he got it and you will be as big a man in Swaziland as I am, once you have given the rifle to Buno. Now what do you think of your Uncle Tuys?"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is well that you hid, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would have been better yet if you had not been so foolish as to wander about at night. Don't you know that sudden death is always walking abroad at night in Swaziland? Have I not told you?"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see those? he asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those mountains are Sheba's Breasts and are known everywhere in Swaziland. Beyond them is the Place of Execution. If you look closely, you can see that sharp cliff to their left."
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Queen Labotsibeni, his royal widow, lives there now, Tuys told me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All Umbadine's other widows live there, too. I think there are about twenty of them. When we get close you will find that the big mountain behind is already throwing its... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That marks the line between the common and royal ground, Tuys explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will follow it and push on to Lebombo, Buno's kraal. If we wished to call on Labotsibeni, we would wait here until we received permission to cross this water. T... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's where Buno lives, said Tuys."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The big kraal in the center is his, and all the little ones belong to his indunas. Each of the indunas has a number of wives and is the leader of an impi of about a thousand men. King Buno has twenty-... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell the great king that his white brother comes with presents and the tribute, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell him that our king, Oom Paul, sends greetings and prays that his health is good and that he will live forever!"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O King, this is Mzaan Bakoor, my nephew, who has come all the way from Rietvlei to bring you the rifle you desire!"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The king thanks you, Mzaan Bakoor, little white chief, he said, and his voice was deep and melodious."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are the near relation of my friend; you shall be the friend of the king. All my subjects shall be your slaves!"
},
{
"from... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have some business to transact with the king. You go back to our camp and wait for me."
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Mzaan Bakoor, there is an induna asking for you! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He says he comes from Queen Labotsibeni and must see you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mzaan Bakoor, little white induna, he said in the same rumbling melodious... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nkoos, little white induna, she said,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oom Tuys comes to pay the tribute, she observed,"
}
] |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oom Tuys and the king plan great things for the people of Swaziland, I solemnly assured her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not for me to say what they will do. When we have left Swaziland the king will tell you everything. Until then I must remain silent."
}... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So she is worried, eh? he observed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, that's good for her! She has kept Buno tied to her apron-strings too long, and I suspect she is playing into the hands of the Britishers. We must keep Buno as a friend of our people. If we don't... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Morituri te salutamus!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on, Oom Tuys, come and let the king see how well you can shoot! Buno shouted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have provided the only targets worthy of your skill--you who are noted for your sho... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll get you next time!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O King, it is not fitting that your warriors should die by my rifle, he said hurriedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are king and their lives are yours; I am but your guest and it is not right... |
38447 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must go through with it, he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kill as few as you can. Shoot them in the head and they'll die quickly!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Mzaan Bakoor, you of the great ears! he shouted, his voice now a hoarse growl."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Show the king that you can shoot as well as you hear. Oom Tuys cannot shoot. You beat him!"
}
] |
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