Yates is a lawyer, an' it's his business to talk for other folks, an' I hope he'll talk for me." "Yates! Yates!" arose on all sides.
Yates was at home in any performance of this kind, and, mounting a low stump, said: "Boys, Jim wants me to thank you for the great service you've rendered him.

You have come a long distance to do a neighborly deed, and that deed has been generously completed.

Here, in these forest shades, you have reared a monument to human civilization.

In these old woods you have built a temple to the American household gods.

The savage beasts of the wilderness will fly from it, and the birds will gather around it.
The winter will be the warmer for the fire that will burn within it, and the spring will come earlier in prospect of a better welcome.