Show A LEGEND OF MAINE SIn cular birc m tance connected witt with lanit dilong the of a i residents in a certain seaport town of lincoln county remember a sin aular circumstance cum stance stanco connected with tho the erection of its oldest church says tho the lewiston Low faton mo me journal there Is a deal of superstition as native to these ledges as tho the ill smelling rockweed cd tho the towns poopoo were very poor ahelf tho old church was built the actual amount or ol money given tow toward ardit it was very cry small indeed hardly a person in town but contributed some material however in tho the northern part close by a covo cove whose banks were mantled with alth beautiful moss after tile tho first low fuw feet cot of cliff ani crowned with sturdy trees and straight stalwart pines lived ed a man noted for other things than generosity tho the soliciting committee put off of asking I 1 for his contribution until others had bad poured in fit and tho the church was a suro sure thing then they waited upon him and said mr blank wo we want that monster pino pine 0 yours for your contribution to tho the church it will mako make an excellent sill will you give it forvour for your part oivo livo my best pine tree give any of my pino pine no sir air not ono of them shall come down nothing could shako this determination in loss less than a wook week arose ono one of I 1 tho I 1 to he heaviest avest storms over ever known on that coa coast st and not ono of those proudest pines in tho the mans forest was left and tho the tallest pine I 1 tho the ono wanted for or a sill was rivon riven from top to io bottom by tho the thunderbolt thunder bolt |