diff --git a/ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c b/ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c
index 93ee86f6af..e40750502b 100644
--- a/ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c
+++ b/ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c
@@ -682,8 +682,12 @@ static int fts3SnippetText(
       ** required. They are required if (a) this is not the first fragment,
       ** or (b) this fragment does not begin at position 0 of its column. 
       */
-      if( rc==SQLITE_OK && (iPos>0 || iFragment>0) ){
-        rc = fts3StringAppend(pOut, zEllipsis, -1);
+      if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
+        if( iPos>0 || iFragment>0 ){
+          rc = fts3StringAppend(pOut, zEllipsis, -1);
+        }else if( iBegin ){
+          rc = fts3StringAppend(pOut, zDoc, iBegin);
+        }
       }
       if( rc!=SQLITE_OK || iCurrent<iPos ) continue;
     }
diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index 37143105d6..6c3a6a6028 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Improve\sthe\sperformance\sof\sfts3/4\squeries\sthat\suse\sthe\sOR\soperator\sand\sat\sleast\sone\sauxiliary\sfts\sfunction.
-D 2015-01-27T18:43:02.971
+C Fix\sa\sbug\sin\sthe\sfts3\ssnippet()\sfunction\scausing\sit\sto\somit\sleading\sseparator\scharacters\sfrom\ssnippets\sthat\sbegin\swith\sthe\sfirst\stoken\sin\sa\scolumn.
+D 2015-01-27T19:01:26.607
 F Makefile.arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc d6df77f1f48d690bd73162294bbba7f59507c72f
 F Makefile.in 5407a688f4d77a05c18a8142be8ae5a2829dd610
 F Makefile.linux-gcc 91d710bdc4998cb015f39edf3cb314ec4f4d7e23
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ F ext/fts3/fts3_hash.c 29b986e43f4e9dd40110eafa377dc0d63c422c60
 F ext/fts3/fts3_hash.h 39cf6874dc239d6b4e30479b1975fe5b22a3caaf
 F ext/fts3/fts3_icu.c e319e108661147bcca8dd511cd562f33a1ba81b5
 F ext/fts3/fts3_porter.c 3565faf04b626cddf85f03825e86056a4562c009
-F ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c 55c126e07158b2a705f52dee2cdc57208d3e999a
+F ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c f16ef6425f92339a8fecc87d9aaf2b12355c78e4
 F ext/fts3/fts3_term.c a521f75132f9a495bdca1bdd45949b3191c52763
 F ext/fts3/fts3_test.c 8a3a78c4458b2d7c631fcf4b152a5cd656fa7038
 F ext/fts3/fts3_tokenize_vtab.c becc661223db7898b213f9e8a23d75bac02408c9
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ F test/fts3prefix2.test e1f0a822ca661dced7f12ce392e14eaf65609dce
 F test/fts3query.test 4fefd43ff24993bc2c9b2778f2bec0cc7629e7ed
 F test/fts3rnd.test 1320d8826a845e38a96e769562bf83d7a92a15d0
 F test/fts3shared.test 57e26a801f21027b7530da77db54286a6fe4997e
-F test/fts3snippet.test d524af6bcef4714e059ef559113dbdc924cd33d1
+F test/fts3snippet.test 03c2f3be7d3b7c8bb105ed237f204833392bd57f
 F test/fts3sort.test ed34c716a11cc2009a35210e84ad5f9c102362ca
 F test/fts3tok1.test c551043de056b0b1582a54e878991f57bad074bc
 F test/fts3tok_err.test 52273cd193b9036282f7bacb43da78c6be87418d
@@ -1237,7 +1237,7 @@ F tool/vdbe_profile.tcl 67746953071a9f8f2f668b73fe899074e2c6d8c1
 F tool/warnings-clang.sh f6aa929dc20ef1f856af04a730772f59283631d4
 F tool/warnings.sh 0abfd78ceb09b7f7c27c688c8e3fe93268a13b32
 F tool/win/sqlite.vsix deb315d026cc8400325c5863eef847784a219a2f
-P e098de691002a78270540430b0df1e120582b53f
-R 097e5fd012edfb2d64381b5476250a91
+P 245e8730451fbdc1c729beff7295c452df604009
+R 9b90e66d84773104aa9a7aba84baf66d
 U dan
-Z 72e3dfc5e16e519968e47157e86381d8
+Z f8bb39ab94c5b09db26ae8d1068b8a66
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index 771d94784d..11a99a20cf 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-245e8730451fbdc1c729beff7295c452df604009
\ No newline at end of file
+adc9283dd9bc3a6463f8c4fe23dd58a3712c349d
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/fts3snippet.test b/test/fts3snippet.test
index 415251dcce..e97db586e6 100644
--- a/test/fts3snippet.test
+++ b/test/fts3snippet.test
@@ -520,5 +520,24 @@ do_execsql_test 2.6 {
   {[one] two three [four] five}
 }
 
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+do_execsql_test 3 {
+  CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE t3 USING fts4;
+  INSERT INTO t3 VALUES('[one two three]');
+}
+do_execsql_test 3.1 {
+  SELECT snippet(t3) FROM t3 WHERE t3 MATCH 'one';
+} {{[<b>one</b> two three]}}
+do_execsql_test 3.2 {
+  SELECT snippet(t3) FROM t3 WHERE t3 MATCH 'two';
+} {{[one <b>two</b> three]}}
+do_execsql_test 3.3 {
+  SELECT snippet(t3) FROM t3 WHERE t3 MATCH 'three';
+} {{[one two <b>three</b>]}}
+do_execsql_test 3.4 {
+  SELECT snippet(t3) FROM t3 WHERE t3 MATCH 'one OR two OR three';
+} {{[<b>one</b> <b>two</b> <b>three</b>]}}
+
 set sqlite_fts3_enable_parentheses 0
 finish_test
+