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Freckles

CHAPTER I
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He had sent the boy through the universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, and allowed him several years' travel before he should attempt his first commission for the firm.
Then he was ordered to southern Canada and Michigan to purchase a consignment of tall, straight timber for masts, and south to Indiana for oak beams.

The young man entered these mighty forests, parts of which lay untouched since the dawn of the morning of time.

The clear, cool, pungent atmosphere was intoxicating.

The intense silence, like that of a great empty cathedral, fascinated him.

He gradually learned that, to the shy wood creatures that darted across his path or peeped inquiringly from leafy ambush, he was brother.


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