In consideration of a current thread on the increasing cost of wood, I
offer you this updated version of an old poem:
Under the spreading Chestnut Tree
The village Smithy stood...
(apologies for the tense change and truncation to H.W. Longfellow)
Regards, Tom
Tom Watson - Woodworker
Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
http://users.snip.net/~tjwatson