# print "Mary had a little lamb."
print "Mary had a little lamb."

# print "Its fleece was white as snow."
# where 'snow' is inserted via string formatter
print "Its fleece was white as %s." % 'snow'

# print "And everywhere that Mary went."
print "And everywhere that Mary went."

# print 10 periods.
print "." * 10  # what'd that do?

# assign "C" to end1
end1 = "C"

# assign "h" to end2
end2 = "h"

# assign "e" to end3
end3 = "e"

# assign "e" to end4
end4 = "e"

# assign "s" to end5
end5 = "s"

# assign "e" to end6
end6 = "e"

# assign "B" to end7
end7 = "B"

# assign "u" to end8
end8 = "u"

# assign "r" to end9
end9 = "r"

# assign "g" to end10
end10 = "g"

# assign "e" to end11
end11 = "e"

# assign "r" to end12
end12 = "r"

# watch that comma at the end. try removing it to see what happens

# print the result of concatenating end1 through 6
# the comma skips the automatic newline at the end
print end1 + end2 + end3 + end4 + end5 + end6,

# print the result of concatenatin end7 through 12
print end7 + end8 + end9 + end10 + end11 +end12
