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have at times furnished food for deer and 
sheep. 
The delightful evergreen has no dying glory in 
autumn; for it is then that it bears its brightest 
hues of glossy green, showing that Nature which, 
in our climate, withdraws so much of her verdancy 
to prepare for the green beauty of the succeeding 
vernal season, yet leaves us something to refresh 
the mind, through the eye, with the sense of 
colour. 
