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| | Old Boss |
 | | And although this monarch was only a tree, an inanimate entity, yet so great a tree it was in size and age and fame, that its passing and fail were attended by ceremonies and manifestations of regret, in lesser degree, but not unlike those that mark the end of a person of royal rank. |
 | | Mississippi, on the timber holdings of the Legan and McClure Lumber Co., of Bates, Miss. |
 | | At different times in the last decade the owners have sought to have the giant pine cut down, but because of its great size, no one could be found would undertake the task of felling the tree and moving it to the company’s logging road, some three miles away. |
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