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branches broken off, and ere busy with ladder, saw, and knife,

repairing da apple-tree, whose branch had been

broken and was hanging by a few fibres, and as soon as I had fixed

lanced down to see if

Old Browns

"Won't do--won't do, Grant," he said "Cutting off a branch of a tree

that has been broken is like practising amputation on a reat piece with those little boughs," I

said

"But you can't, my lad Now just look down the side there belohere

you are cutting, and what can you see?"

"Only a little crack that will grow up"

"Only a little crack that won't grow up, Grant, but which will adh, at the end of two

or three years, instead of being sound and covered with young shoots,

will be dying away A surgeon, when he perforht below the splintered part of the bone Cut three feet lower down,

my lad, and then pare all off nice and s