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HON. N. M. JONES OF LINCOLN.

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E "takes to the tall timber" but not, I beg' to say, As the idiom applies it to the chap "d1O'S had his day!

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Where the trees are close to~cther with their branches to the sky; And the trails are thin and scanty and the l'hadows heavy lie; \\'bere the silence is unbroken, save by sounds the bi~ woods maIm As across the pine and hemlock the \Vimls unceasin~ break, There are nlen, who malie a business of t.he study of the land. Of the trees, that ~row upon them. and the value of the stand; Who live, tlius, so close to nature, that they ~et to be a part Of the bj~ and honest woodland in its deep and honest heart. 'W here, the people Il;et tOll:Cther, in the service of the State, \\'here the nla,inest sort of duty Is to labor and to wait; \\-11ere the trails are thin and scanty and the honest man may stray; It's a joy to find a fellow, in the straill;ht and narrow way. So when Nat Jones comes up from Lillcoln, we need never be afra!d. Here's a man who's of the timber from which /l;Ood public men are made The trail is not so windill/l: that hc can not ma,k e it straill;ht To the credit of his manhood and the honor of the State.

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