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having escaped the teeth of the destroyer, sent up its 

 verdant shoot through the hole in the centre of the 

 procumbent millstone. 



" One day I pointed out this rising tree to a gentleman 

 who was standing by, and I said ' If this young plant 

 escape destruction, some time or other it will support the 

 millstone, and raise it from the ground. He seemed to 

 doubt this. In order, however, that the plant might have 



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a fair chance of success, I directed that it should be 

 defended from accident and harm by means of a wooden 

 paling. 



" Year after year it increased in size and beauty, and 

 when its expansion had entirely filled up the hole in the 

 centre of the millstone, it gradually began to raise up the 

 millstone itself from the seat of its long repose. This 



