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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 90

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ked very pretty. Good-bye, dear Jack, with love from your little friend, Mamie Lewis. ROOTS EIGHTY FEET IN AIR. In the East Indies there arc trees whose rootsstand seventy and even eighty feet in the air,—more than twelve times the height of a tall man. A tree of this kind generally grows from a… … A TREE WITH KOOTS THIRTY FEET IN AIR. ground and at last strike there. When the oldertree dies and falls to pieces, the other is held upfirmly by its own roots, from the top of which, asfrom a tall pyramid of interlacing trunks, it rearsits head and spreads abroad its leafy branches. The pictures…

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