A THOUSAND-YEAR PINE 



embedded there. After some years 

 the wound was healed over, but this 

 fragment remained in the tree until I 

 released it. 



During 1859 some one made an axe- 

 mark on the old pine that may have 

 been intended for a trail-blaze, and 

 during the same year another fire 

 badly burned and scarred his ankle. 

 I wonder if some prospectors came 

 this way in 1859 and made camp by 

 him. 



Another record of man's visits to the 

 tree was made in the summer of 1881, 

 when I think a hunting or outing 

 party may have camped near here and 

 amused themselves by shooting at a 

 mark on Old Pine's ankle. Several 

 modern rifle-bullets were found em- 

 bedded in the wood around or just be- 



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