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live to say that I have saved a farm I shall not have lived in vain. 

 I hope to be able to say at the close of life, "I have saved a farm f 

 I have done something for my country, I have done something 

 for my family, I have saved a farm. It stands as a monument 

 for all that is good and true in me. I have saved a farm, I have 

 done my duty !" If any one of you can live to say that you have 

 kept the wilderness back from a farm, and saved it from the 

 forest, you will indeed be worthy of the proud name of Ameri- 

 can freeholder! 



Mr. Collingwood then referred to the time when he was a 

 little boy and pumped the church organ in the little church on 

 the hill, and repeated a poem which he composed when in the 

 West far awav from the home of his childhood. 



