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FABLE I. 



OF THE BOY THAT STOLE APPLES. 



AN old man found a rude boy upon one of his trees stealing apples, and 

 desired him to come down ; but the young sauce-box told him plainly he 

 would not. "Won't you ?" said the old man, "then I will fetch you down;" so 

 he pulled up some turf or grass and threw at him; but this only made the 

 youngster laugh, to think the old man should pretend to beat him down from 

 the tree with grass only. 



"Wefl, well," said the old man, "if neither words nor grass will do, I must try 

 what virtue there is in stones ; " so the old man pelted him heartily with stones, 

 which soon made the young chap hasten down from the tree and beg the old 

 man's pardon. 



MORAL. 



If good words and gentle means will not reclaim the wicked, they must be 

 dealt with in a more severe manner. 



Webster's Spelling Book, 1829 



THE PINE TREE. 



THE tremendous unity of the pine absorbs and moulds the life of a race. 

 The pine shadows rest upon a nation. The northern peoples, century 

 after century, lived under one or other of the two great powers of the pine and 

 the sea, both infinite. They dwelt amidst the forests as they wandered on the 

 waves, and saw no end nor any other horizon. Still the dark, green trees, or 

 the dark, green waters, jagged the dawn with their fringe or their foam. And 

 whatever elements of imagination, or of warrior strength, or of domestic 

 justice, were brought down by the Norwegian or the Goth against the dis- 

 soluteness or degradation of the south of Europe, were taught them under the 

 green roofs and wild penetralia of the pine. 



JOHN RUSKIX, Modern Painters. 



