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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 1 881, it is at least possible that 



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