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Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

CHAPTER I
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We build our movers ourselves, and work with our own men, and it is truly surprising what liberties you can take with trees, if you once learn how to handle these monsters.

We have moved trees ninety feet high, and many seventy or eighty feet.

And they naturally are by no means young.

At one time or another we have tried almost all kinds of trees, including some which the authorities said could not be moved with success.

Perhaps the most daring experiments were with horse-chestnuts.


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