A THOUSAND-YEAR PINE 



may be that around Old Pine was 

 fought the battle that is said to have 

 decided the fate of that mysterious 

 race, the Cliff -Dwellers. The imagina- 

 tion insists on speculating with these 

 two arrowheads, though they form a 

 fascinating clue that leads us to no 

 definite conclusion. But the fact re- 

 mains that Old Pine was wounded by 

 two Indian arrowheads some time 

 during his six hundred and thirtieth 

 summer. 



The year that Columbus discovered 

 America, Old Pine was a handsome 

 giant with a round head held more 

 than one hundred feet above the earth. 

 He was six hundred and thirty-six 

 years old, and with the coming of the 

 Spanish adventurers his lower trunk 

 was given new events to record. The 



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