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In the chapter on humor in this book is included a poem, "The Willamette Bridge", by Stephen Maybell, with a biographical note on him. His clever and satiric poem, which was helped to fame by the long agitation for a bridge across the river, was written a year or two previous to this tribute to him by Mrs. Miller. The West Shore referred to him as having been at that time "a young and untutored bard of some native genius, who resided in East Portland."