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<LEGEND>
         This schedule  contains summary  financial  information  extracted from
         Egret, Inc. March 31, 1997 financial statements and is qualified in its
         entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>

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<NAME>                                  Egret, Inc.

       

                                     
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