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FACT NUMBER THREE. 



taken by a more direct and sturdy assault, or he soon endan- 

 gers the life both of the fruit and the tree. 



If the hands be well guarded by stout buck-skin mitts, 

 and a light ladder be employed to reach his castle, fatal bat- 

 tle is soon waged. True, he is not, indeed, the most deli- 

 cate thing in the world to handle whether with or without 

 mittens, but then the labor of an utter annihilation, both of 

 house and tenant, is not very great nor veiy dangerous ; and 

 then, if the wounded tree be rubbed over with a little soap 

 or candle grease, none will return to build up the ruin. 



THE SHEET AND EARLY FRUIT TREE. 



'The first idea of this Great Sheet, was suggested by a 

 sense of the want of some safe and easy means by which 

 early fruit might be gathered and secured without subject- 



