The Devil and Daniel Webster
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IT'S A STORY THEY TELL IN THE BORDER COUNTRY, where Massachusetts
joins Vermont and New Hampshire.
Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead-or, at least, they
buried him. But every time there's a thunder storm around
Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the
hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave
and speak loud and clear, "Dan'l Webster-Dan'l Webster!"
the ground'll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake.
And after a while you'll hear a deep voice saying, "Neighbor,
how stands the Union?" Then you better answer the Union
stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper sheathed,
one and indivisible, or he's liable to rear right out of
the ground. At least, that's what I was told when I was
a youngster.
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