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The Log School-House on the Columbia

CHAPTER V
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She call--the God overhead he call.

Go!" A slender young pine ran up beside one of the giant trees, tall and green.
In a moment Benjamin was seen ascending this pine to a point where he could throw himself upon the smallest of the great trees and grasp the ladder of the lower dead branches.

Up and up he went in the view of all, until he had reached a height of some hundred and fifty feet.
The eagles wheeled around him, describing higher circles as he ascended.
He reached the young eagles at last, but passed by them.

What was he going to do?
There was a shelf of green boughs above him, which would bear the weight of a nest.

He went up to them at a distance of nearly two hundred feet.


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