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Show Built Struoture Around Treo. The peoplo of tho Now England states aro proverbial for their veneration venera-tion of trees and in those days of ruthless ruth-less destruction of woods it is refreshing refresh-ing in the extromo to hoar of a case like the resident of Kennebunkport, Mo., who, rather than to disturb an old tree which grew on his farm upon a site desired for the location of a barn, built the structure around tho tree. The barn wall completely circumscribes cir-cumscribes the treo, but lies at sufficient suffi-cient distance to glvo tho tree plonty of air. Tho age of this particular tree is not accurately known, but It Is on? of a pair which is said to havo been full grown trees at tho time of the revolution. |