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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4952, 22 November 1884, Page 1

AN OLD ELM TREE. As I sat beneath an old elm tree, the wind went whistling by. It beut its boughs and softly breathed tbo following with a sigh: " I have lived here for many) a year and seen the summer come and go, the spring time with its flowers and rain, the autumn with its fruit and grain, the winterwith its chilling blast, when with snow and ice the skies are overcast. In summertime beneath my shade have children often played, and, oh, how oft beneath my bonglg have lovers renewed their plighted vows, and many a time the old and feeble have sought my shade to smoke their pipes or ply the needle; and thus it's been with smiles and tears that I have watched them. come and go for throe score years, and many a tale I could tell of what in that time befel. But age iscreopingo'ermy head and I fear pay roots are getting dead; and soon I'll irith c r a n H decay like those who sought my shade each day." Small boy: " Pa, did you-kaow Ma long before you married her?" Pa: I didn't 1 didn't know her until long after I had warned her." *?