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to empty themselves ; and you will see^ if you 

 examine this tree to-morrow^ that a consider- 

 able quantity of sap^ or turpentine^ has flowed 

 out which otherwise would have gone — as, in- 

 deed, I could have wished it — to the support 

 of the leaves and branches." 



I remarked that our English firs are by no 

 means so succulent, or juicy, as those of the 

 North ; and that the one just now pierced was 

 not a tenth part the size of the tree from 

 which turpentine is there obtained. 



I should like to hear," said Mrs. Long- 

 hurst, in what way these immense trees are 

 conveyed to the sea side : they do not all 

 grow, I suppose, on the very coast ?" 



Harry appeared impatient to answer this 

 question, by saying that machines, called tim- 

 ber carriages^ were used. 



In this country, they are, undoubtedly. 



