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CHAPTER I.
WHICH DEALS WITH THE OPINIONS OF A CAT,
AND THE SORROWS OF A CHARCOAL BURNER.
THE pine forest is a wonderful place. The pine-trees stand in ranks like the soldiers of some vast army, side by side, mile after mile, in companies and regiments and battalions, all clothed in a sober uniform of green and grey. But they are unlike soldiers in this, that they are of all ages and sizes; some so
