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Updated: May 19, 2025
Overtopping all, on the farther line of the grounds, southern line, several pecan-trees of nearly a hundred feet in height, leafless, with a multitude of broad-spreading boughs all high in air by natural habit, gave an effect strongly like that of winter elms, though much enlivened by the near company of the evergreen masses of cedar and magnolia.
"Oh, Dan! The deer's gone!" The cry came straight from Ralph's heart, as with staring eyes he ran in under the pecan-trees and gazed at the spot where the game had rested less than an hour before. "Gone?" repeated the brother. "Then you didn't kill him?" "Yes, I did, I am sure of it, for I turned him over after he was shot. Could some wild animal have carried him off?"
Perhaps I could tell what it was by crushing and smelling a leaf? No; it was something familiar; I sniffed, and looked foolish, and after all he had to tell me its name camphor. So we went the rounds of the garden, frightening a mocking-bird off her nest in an orange-tree, till my hands were full. It is too bad I have forgotten how many pecan-trees he had planted, and how many sheep he kept.
Edwards fanned her; the stars shone through the pecan-trees, and all the loveliness of this new hemisphere and home and the kindness of the people made her close her eyes to keep the tears from running out. The separation of the sick from all healthy mankind had never so hurt her. Something was expected of her, and she was not equal to it.
But Dan was right, there was much trouble ahead, as we shall see as our story progresses. The cottonwoods passed, the boys faced another small clearing, where a forest fire years before had lain many a towering pine low. Beyond this burnt and barren spot were the pecan-trees overhanging the river, where the deer had come to slake his thirst when Ralph had trailed him and brought him low.
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