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suppose the violence of the quake displaced 

 many rocks, and some of these, as they came 

 bounding down the mountain-side, collided with 

 Old Pine. One, of about five pounds' weight, 

 struck him so violently in the side that it re- 

 mained embedded there. After some years the 

 wound was healed over, but this fragment re- 

 mained in the tree until I released it. 



During 1859 some one made an axe-mark on 

 the old pine that may have been intended for a 

 trail-blaze, and during the same year another fire 

 badly burned and scarred his ankle. I wonder if 

 some prospectors came this way in 1859 and 

 made camp by him. 



Another record of man's visits to the tree 

 was made in the summer of 1881, when I think 

 a hunting or outing party may have camped 

 near here and amused themselves by shooting 

 at a mark on Old Pine's ankle. Several modern 

 rifle-bullets were found embedded in the wood 

 around or just beneath a blaze which was made 

 on the tree the same year in which the bullets 

 had entered it. As both these marks were made 

 during the year 1881, it is at least possible that 



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