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monk

"But still the old monks shook their heads, and said that noIt was too terrible to be thought of,

and they frowned very severely upon the young htful, exclai the li monk said that it was so

"`But a man is not an apple-tree,' said the oldest ain; but, oddly enough, a few minutes

later they nodded their heads, for the prior suddenly exclaiht, and he shall try' "There was a strange thrill ran through the monks, but what the prior

said was law in those days, Grant, and in a few h the priory that Brother Ansel

"Then--I say, o on with your work I can't talk

if you do not," said Old Brownsain while he continued his story

"When Brother Anselm had obtained the prior's leave to try his

experiment he felt nervous and shrank froarden and looked at the trees that he had cut, and he felt more than

ever that a man was, as the monks said, not an apple-tree Then he

examined the places which looked healthy and well, and he wondered

whether if he performed such an operation on the poor patient he also

would be healthy and well at the end of a week, and he shook his head