Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 203
And Jupiter, looking upon the twogifts, awarded the prize to Athene. And last, but best, are the hero trees. I shallalways remember one particular hero tree Imet. It was on the summit of a mountain,and when I had climbed many thousand feet,that I came upon him. A lonely pine, agedand… … ■■OLIVl}-TREr:S-THK MODEST SERVANT THEES .stood, erect and dauntless, the very embodi-ment of a valiant spirit—my hero tree. Of all the denizens of the wild, I lovetrees the best. Not the poor maimed thingsthat eke out an existence in our city streets;but the trees of forest and field as the…
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