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OF THE BOY THAT STOLE APPLES. 
N old man found a rude boy upon one of his trees stealing apples, and 
JA desired him to come down ; but the young sauce-box told him plainly he 
would not.- “Won’t you?” said the old man, “then I will fetch you down;” so 
he pulled up some turf or grass and threw at him; but this only made the 
youngster Hugh, to think the old man should pretend lo beat him down from 
the tree with grass only. 
“Well, well,” said the old man, “if neither words nor grass will do, I must try 
what virtue there is in stones ; ” so the old man pelted him heartily with stones, 
which soon made the young chap hasten down from the tree and beg the old 
man’s pardon. 
MORAL. 
If good words and gentle means will not reclaim the wicked, they must be 
dealt with in a more severe manner. 
Webster’s Spelling Book , 1829 
THE PINE TREE. 
'HE tremendous unity of the pine absorbs and moulds the life of a race. 
i The pine shadows rest upon a nation. The northern peoples, century 
after century, lived under one or other of the two great powers of the pine and; 
the sea, both infinite. They dwelt amidst the forests as they wandered on the- 
waves, and saw no end nor any other horizon. Still the dark, green trees, or 
the dark, green waters, jagged the dawn with their fringe or their foam. And 
whatever elements of imagination, or of warrior strength, or of domestic 
justice, were brought down by the Norwegian or the Goth against the dis¬ 
soluteness or degradation of the south of Europe, were taught them under the 
green roofs and wild penetralia of the pine. 
John Ruskin, Modern Painters'. 
