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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. N one of the roads leading to West Rock there were three trees—two white oaks and a walnut, that had achieved royalty. One of the charms of this old region is that a tree here and there has had an opportunity of reaching the highest ideal of its kind. One soon comes to get a sort of property feeling in the noble things with which he is surrounded. But loving your neighbor's trees while he has the power to cut them down and put them to base uses, is as perilous as giving your heart to a woman who may prove to be the property of another. I noticed some time ago that one of those oaks had been cut down ; it was but a sorry consolation to think that its great strong arms might be going to strengthen the sides of some high-masted ship. When I last saw itits trunk lay headless and armless like the body of a giant; a large section empurpled by a sort of ink showed itself; and two men in blue overalls and armed with a saw were . wagging their heads over it. When a grand thing is destroyed, I say somebody ought to be punished unless he can make a good defense of himself. What do I care for the rights of property then? So I go to the side of the road; and there is a dialogue carried on over a chestnut rail splashed with lichens. " You are getting some pretty nice ship- timber out of that old oak? " We are getting a lot of very hard work out of it." I never saw one of these wary, unimaginative Yankees surprised into anything. " Oh! I reckoned you were cutting it down for ship-timber." " We could have got some, but it would have taken a good deal of work." "So you cut it down just to make wood?" "Can't use only the limbs for that;" and then they smiled at the idea of making firewood of that great knotted bulk. " I suppose you know that tree was one of the large...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780548186725
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 711 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548186723
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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