Word: beech
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...catch a man like that. There isn't any sense in the little tricks that they do now-a-days, hooking a barber's sign now and then, and then acting as if they were scared to death over it. Now, the idea of blowing up the beech tree! Why any fool could do that. Besides, that is mean, for it could never be replaced. Now, if they should blow up a college building money would fix that all right, but the idea of harming a tree! I'd like to catch them at it once." At this point...
Another attempt has been made to blow up the unoffending beech tree between Weld and Matthews...
There evidently is some reason why the beech tree should be removed, as a second attempt has been made to blow it up. As its presence does not injure the appearance of the grounds, we cannot see why it should not be allowed to remain. If there is any just reason for its removal, those who wish it would do well to petition and state their reasons. If it is merely on the ground of animosity toward the authorities that such action is taken, the sooner those who are concerned in this boyish trick are discovered, the better...
Toward the south, along the shore, the forest extended for miles, an unbroken stretch of beech and maple. Tue, in her few hasty glances at the surroundings of the village, had selected this as the most beautiful spot in the landscape; perhaps as much because it led to her own sunny native land as for any peculiar charm of its own. Thither she now turned her steps...
...least half an inch in length, so as to be plainly legible in all this part of the State. But as the tree has no such historic merits on which to stand, it seems eminently proper that for the general improvement in the appearance of the Yard the obnoxious beech should at least be trimmed, and deprived of its lower branches, if not of all that portion of its growth which displays itself above ground...