A THOUSAND-YEAR PINE 



neatli a blaze which was made on the 

 tree the same year in which the bullets 

 had entered it. As both these marks 

 were made during the year 1881, it is 

 at least possible that this year the old 

 pine was used as the background for a. 

 target during a shooting contest. 



While I was working over the old 

 pine, a Fremont squirrel who lived 

 near by used every day to stop in his 

 busy harvesting of pine-cones to look 

 on and scold me., As I watched him 

 placing his cones in a hole in the 

 ground under the pine-needles, I often 

 wondered if one of his buried cones 

 would remain there uneaten, to ger- 

 minate and expand ever green into the 

 air, and become a noble giant to live as 

 long and as useful a life as Old Pine. I 

 found myself trying to picture the 



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