Fir-tree

Chase, and which was called Fir-tree Grove, not because the firs were many, but because they were few.

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Fir-tree Grove — the way Hetty was sure to come in walking from the Hall Farm.

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The _Pinus Picra_, or Silver Fir-tree, yields common [577]

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"I?" said the Fir-tree, thinking over what he had himself related.

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918

When Christmas came, quite young trees were cut down; trees which often were not even as large or of the same age as this Fir-tree, who could never rest, but always wanted to be off.

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918

This happened every year; and the young Fir-tree, that had now grown to a very comely size, trembled at the sight; for the magnificent great trees fell to the earth with noise and cracking, the branches were lopped off, and the trees looked long and bare; they were hardly to be recognized; and then they were laid in carts, and the horses dragged them out of the woods.

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918

Fir-tree was stuck upright in a cask that was filled with sand: but no one could see that it was a cask, for green cloth was hung all around it, and it stood on a large gayly coloured carpet.

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918

"And then?" asked the Fir-tree, trembling in every bough.

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918

The Fir-tree stood quite still and absorbed in thought; the birds in the woods had never related the like of this.

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918

"Oh," said the little Mice, "how fortunate you have been, old Fir-tree!"

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918