Excerpt from The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine When, one day, the sawmill-man at Mancos wrote, Come, we are about to log your old pine, I started at once, regretting that a thing which seemed to me so human, as well as so noble, must be killed. I went with the axemen who were to cut the old pine down. A grand and impressive tree he was. Never have I seen so much individuality, so much character, in a tree. Although lightning had given him a bald crown, he was still a healthy giant, and was waving evergreen banners more ...
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Excerpt from The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine When, one day, the sawmill-man at Mancos wrote, Come, we are about to log your old pine, I started at once, regretting that a thing which seemed to me so human, as well as so noble, must be killed. I went with the axemen who were to cut the old pine down. A grand and impressive tree he was. Never have I seen so much individuality, so much character, in a tree. Although lightning had given him a bald crown, he was still a healthy giant, and was waving evergreen banners more than one hundred and fifteen feet above the earth. His massive trunk, eight feet in diameter at the level of my breast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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