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Show BBB 1 - 1 '' Tho Oldest of Trees. B"' Aa to tho agoa of trees, it is not tho H j oak which is, as Drydon, or another, H- t haB It, tho "patriarch." Tho oldest H tlE8B on earth aro tho trqmondous con Bf2 Iters standing in ono of tho Call f? fornian valleys. Older than Abraham, HL ;thoy havo rolled around with tlto jfr Vr'oHd, alive, for many moro conturloa H Lian ony nloro oak; ant not lonB ag0 H -eno. of tliom fell. Thoro ho lies, and ' fyou climb bis stdo by a laddor. And H tho real or many of them aro in m thelc last few centuries, aa 1b ovldenj M j jrom thoir.dwindling tops, H- Ttiat is what surprises tho tourist H 'that having lived througn human H Istory they aro now dying. They H 'aro now cared for, if things so strango K nnd so august can bo said to owo any H 'thing to man's care; but man for hun H drods of decades gavo thorn hard H usaga; thotr hollows aro black with H 'tho flrea lighted within by Indian na H jtlons long vanished, London Chronl- |