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me down with great delight and Hsten to the "Surf 

 sound of an aerial sea." And *'The Martyr" on Judges 

 Hill, a noble hemlock, still living, though half his limbs 

 have been slashed off by sinful man to deck a Christian 

 holiday. And " Agamemnon," king of men, lord of 

 Mount Ararat, a giant upon whose shoulders you can 

 sit and see all eastern Massachusetts and half of the 



Bay, - 



All your country sea and land 

 Dwarfed to measure of your hand; 

 Your day's ride a furlong space; 

 Your city tops a glimmering haze. 



As an old farmer said, after he had ascended to the 

 tower room of Trustworth, *'From as high up as that 

 a man can see all he ought to see." 



Then you ought to know "Eleanor" the Queen Elm, 

 a hundred feet high, with floating garments of green 

 silk whose fringes almost touch the ground. Plate XII 

 shows one of her ladies-in-waiting. And old "Odin," the 

 King Oak who spreads at his feet on the silver snow, 

 when the New Year moon sails high above, a cape of 

 purple lace a hundred and twenty-five feet from side to 

 side, and who sometimes wears diamonds between all 

 his fingers. 



"Lazarus" (Plate XIII) is a Pitch Pine at Trustworth, 

 He was smitten down in his young manhood by the 

 great gale of 1898, but we stood him up again with fall 

 and windlass, buried his northern roots and weighted 



