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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Four Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Quarterly Meeting of the Wiscasset Fire Society
First and foremost in our thoughts to-night are the Town of Wiscasset and this Society, founded in the old en days, to which it is our good for tune to belong. The Town seems to be looking up. Each year she blooms forth in fresh beauty and loveliness. Age cannot wither nor custom stale her infinite variety. In the air is a harbinger of greater prosperity. The fame of the town is spreading. Only last fall, at a dinner which I had the pleasure of attending in Boston, one of the speakers made this town the subject of one of his stories. I jotted this down after the dump cart had been around. Mr. Samuel J. Elder, one of the leading lawyers of Boston, referring to a statement by one of the guests at the banquet who had said that he owed his invitation to be pres ent to his connection with the Church. Mr. Elder declared that that reminded him of a story which he heard from one of the judges of the supreme court of Maine, a story of which the scene was laid in the town of Wiscasset. As the story as told by Mr. Elder did not harmonize en tirely with the topography of Wiscas: set, I shall, with your permission, sub mit his version to some revision, and insert a little bit of local coloring of my own.
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