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"Oh, the Pilgrim Fathers!" cried the boy from Connecticut. "And nothing ever happened here all that time?" queried the boy from California incredulously. "Nothing," said the notary, "except a great deal of human life." "Gee! what a lot o' that!" murmured the thoughtful boy from Virginia, his eyes widening imaginatively. After the fact that it had been there so long, they were astonished by the fact that it was there at all, existing, as far as they could see, with no visible means of support beyond a casual sawmill or two.