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often swoops down at night, and as a result some 

 little tree is splashed with the blood of the very 

 animal that came to feed upon it. 



The lower section of Old Pine's trunk con- 

 tained records which I found interesting. One 

 of these in particular aroused my imagination. I 

 was sawing off a section of this lower portion 

 when the saw, with a buzz-z-z-z, suddenly jumped. 

 The object struck was harder than the saw. I 

 wondered what it could be, and, cutting the wood 

 carefully away, laid bare a flint arrowhead. Close 

 to this one I found another, and then with care 

 I counted the rings of growth to find out the 

 year that these had wounded Old Pine. The 

 outer ring which these arrowheads had pierced 

 was the six hundred and thirtieth, so that the 

 year of this occurrence was 1486. 



Had an Indian bent his bow and shot at a bear 

 that had stood at bay backed up against this 

 tree? Or was there around this tree a battle among 

 Indian tribes ? Is it possible that at this place 

 some Cliff-Dweller scouts encountered their ad- 

 vancing foe from the north and opened hostili- 

 ties ? It may be that around Old Pine was fought 



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