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some kind had been hung up and had been used as a target for three 

 bullets were imbedded in the wood. 



About thirty feet up in the tree a large limb had been broken off 

 nearly thirty years ago. In the cavity thus formed, a family of 

 barn owls had their nest, and every year they raised a family of 

 three or four young. Many was the mouse that went towards the 

 raising of a young barn owl ! The old birds would hunt for mice 

 all night and in the day time they would sleep in the hole with the 

 young. 



The old sycamore had often been injured around the base and 

 here decay had set in and the tree was gradually weakened and so 

 when the big storm came, the noble old tree was blown down and 

 its days were over. 



A Boy's Friendly Tree 



George H. Russell 



Winthrop, N. Y. 



The tree which I am going to write about is one that has been my 

 close friend and companion all thru my childhood and youth. 

 This tree is useful in more ways than one, for besides affording 

 shade in summer and beauty at all times, it grows for its friends the 

 most luscious fruit imaginable. 



The name which has been given it is "St. Lawrence," probably 

 because it grows well in northern New York and especially in St. 



