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the battle that is said to have decided the fate 

 of that mysterious race the Cliff-Dwellers. The 

 imagination insists on speculating with these two 

 arrowheads, though they form a fascinating clue 

 that leads us to no definite conclusion. But the 

 fact remains that Old Pine was wounded by two 

 Indian arrowheads some time during his six hun- 

 dred and thirtieth summer. 



The year that Columbus discovered America, 

 Old Pine was a handsome giant with a round 

 head held more than one hundred feet above the 

 earth. He was six hundred and thirty-six years 

 old, and with the coming of the Spanish ad- 

 venturers his lower trunk was given new events 

 to record. The year 1540 was a particularly mem- 

 orable one for him. This year brought the first 

 horses and bearded men into the drama which 

 was played around him. This year, for the first 

 time, he felt the edge of steel and the tortures 

 of fire. The old chronicles say that the Spanish 

 explorers found the cliff-houses in the year 1 540. 

 I believe that during this year a Spanish explor- 

 ing party may have camped beneath Old Pine and 

 built a fire against his instep, and that some of 



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