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1.1       root        1: #print
                      2: Another useful command is "tail", which will print the last
                      3: 10 lines of a file.  This is handy when you want to see how 
                      4: far something got before it stopped, or what the last thing
                      5: in a file is.  To use "tail", all you need to say is
                      6:   tail file
                      7: What is the first word on the next to last line of the file
                      8: called "Ref" in this directory.
                      9: Type "answer WORD", where WORD is the word you found.
                     10: #create Ref
                     11:    Now Abraham Lincoln was master of the White House.  But he was
                     12: President of only part of the United States.  For the Southern
                     13: States has taken down the Star-Spangled Banner and raised the flag
                     14: of the Confederacy in its stead.  Sad and silent, Lincoln gazed
                     15: through his spyglass at the Confederate flag that fluttered in the
                     16: wind on the other side of the Potomac River in Virginia.  He pondered
                     17: how to get the Southern States back into the Union.  He needed
                     18: quiet to think what to do.  But from morning till night the White
                     19: House was crowded with people seeking his help.
                     20:    About a hundred and fifty years after the pilgrims settled in
                     21: this country, a young hunter picked up his gun.  He tossed it onto
                     22: his shoulder and followed a buffalo trail across the mountains into
                     23: what is now Kentucky.
                     24:    His name was Daniel Boone.
                     25:    He found wild country.  There were no settlers, no roads.  Indians
                     26: hunted in the woods for food.  The country was beautiful and dangerous.
                     27: But here was rich, free land -- miles and miles of it.
                     28:    Many settlers, besides the Pilgrims, had come to the shores of
                     29: America.  But they had stayed on the safe land between the sea and
                     30: the mountains.
                     31:    Columbus discovered America in 1492.  Later, other explorers
                     32: visited the new land.  They told people in Europe of the forests,
                     33: furs, and fish they found.  Many Europeans decided to settle in
                     34: this wonderful land.  But some of the first settlers starved to
                     35: death during the hard winters.  Others lived to build settlements
                     36: or colonies for their mother countries.  Colonial America was
                     37: beginning.  In 1607, three ships brought men from England to what
                     38: is now Jamestown, Virginia.  They were looking for gold.
                     39:    The leader, Captain John Smith, taught the men to build houses
                     40: of stakes and branches.  They plastered the walls of the houses with
                     41: mud.
                     42: #copyin
                     43: #user
                     44: #uncopyin
                     45: #match of
                     46: #log
                     47: #next
                     48: 4.1g 10

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