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WARDEN O. B. NORTON, THOMASTON, ME.
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KNOW a man in Th~maston, No better lives beneath the snn. I want it plainly understood This friend or mine is very good. Yet this is strange, for I am told He oft is seen with robbers bold. All murderers, now mark this whim, He promptly takes right home with him. (So pleased are they wftll their new home. They seldom from its confines roam.) Beneath his roof ten forgers dine. (And yet I thonght him very flne!) A man cuts up In drunken brawl; My friend bestows on him his awl. Some . swindlers robbed the helpless poor, Then hied them straightway to his door. Explain this riddle, ye who can, I thought him, sure, an honest man%
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