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NATURE'S STORY OF THE YEAR 



Storms batter every leaf, and strain each tree. 

 They press the grasses to the ground whence they 

 sprang, and dabble the flags of young corn in the 



A WIND-TWISTED TREE. 



mud. Solitary trees, especially those of the wide- 

 branched kinds, attest the strain to which they 

 are subjected, and are twisted by the prevailing 

 winds, which strike the most against the south- 



