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MR. F. A. PEABODY, First Selectman of Houlton.

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'Twill skip from politics to puns or pass from lUahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that Ieeel}, the planets in their radiant cow·ses. And ending in some precept deep, for dressing eels or shoein,go horses.

Thus, PI'aed did sing, in jolly rhyme, his tales of knights and dragons dire, Uclating how-in two-four time-the Cea~'some dragons belched their fire; They had no straight-illSurance then; the doughty knights, for reimbursin,go; So dainty maids picked up their men, by systematic arts of nm'sing. I'm edging toward my subject now, which you observe is up in Houlton. M:\' flight is tardy-I'll allow-Alas! IllY song bird's moultin' But when at last to Earth he'll strike, in flowery lands of high desire ·Whyt Over to Peabody's he will hike-"A policy for Fire." He'll meet a man of honest zeal, of earnest faith and high endeavor. "Vho labors for the common weal and spares his efforts never; A Solectman who does his work and faithful is to every duty Which gives my rhyme a pleasant quirk-its chief and only beauty.

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