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it was so low on account of the wind.  Seeing that he
had reclaimed quite a large marshy area, I spoke to him
about it; he, however, misunderstood me, for he answered,
"yes, me and my sons cut all the woods down", he then
told me how nice it was now to walk along the pond, where
as formerly the trees stood close to the edge.  He little 
thought that to me it was only then that it was beautiful &
that now the attractions were just disappearing.  He told me
how when he first came, they all got sick and that he
knew it was on acc't of that damp, "raw" air from out the
woods that caused it.  So he said to his sons, "Go get
help and cut the woods down and put fire to it, then we
got well."  There has been a marked change even within
the last 5 years.  The atmosphere is no longer damp and heavy
as it was then, but also, it is no longer the haunt for
flowers as then.  Large areas of the woods have been cut 
down, the pretty path along the edge of the land nicely
shaded by the trees is now almost entirely ruined, and the
pond coincidentally reduced in size.  The fire, which had been
so widespread, burning out all the brush, killing many trees
        