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piece, while another is seen on another page. The Creator planted some of 
these trees when Moses was on Mount Horeb, and has cared for them during 
eighty centuries. They have withstood the action of the glacial age, of a 
VIEW I YOSEMITE VALLEY, 
thousand forest fires and of storms of greatest severity, yet America’s boasted 
civilization permits a scoundrel in man’s guise to destroy them in a day, in 
order that he may gain a few paltry dollars and thereby lose his own soul. 
Shame upon such spoliation. 
