QUERCUS ALBA 



have told, any more than why one 

 brother of a human family grows 

 taller and another remains short. 

 Suffice it to say that it was so. 



Kindly Nature had made him 

 more vigorous for growth, more fit 

 than his mates. Already he began 

 to tower above his own brothers at 

 his side ; not much, but enough to 

 give the advantage. Still more he 

 dominated the pine, for here the 

 advantages were racial, his kind be- 

 ing ever more tolerant to shade. 



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