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Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

CHAPTER XVIII
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Some vandals sawed off one of the most magnificent specimens twenty feet above the ground, and, on this the owners of the hotel built a little octagonal chapel.

The polished wood, with bark for a border, made a very pretty floor.

Here they often had Sunday services, as it held about one hundred people.

Here, too, we discussed the suffrage question, amid these majestic trees that had battled with the winds two thousand years, and had probably never before listened to such rebellion as we preached to the daughters of earth that day.
Here, again, we found our distinguished statesmen immortalized, each with his namesake among these stately trees.

We asked our guide if there were any not yet appropriated, might we name them after women.


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