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4 trees for half a century to all the pioneer? settlers of Indiana Iowa He deemed himself sent by God to furnish apple seeds
and young seedling trees to these settlers. He once killed a rattlesnake, and throughout his life he never cursed? his self-reproach
for his wantonness. I bethought myself of him as I read your pages. I have such a dread, an immutable? loathing of a snake
that I will not touch a picture of one; I will not even glance at a picture of one in the Dictionary - And one time when someone
handed me a pocketbook of snake skin and I was told what the skin was - I vomited so continuously that I had to go to bed
and have a nurse - I abhor? anyone who would touch a snake - And even your meadow gardens would not allure me if snakes were
therein. The question of their malignancy has no bearing upon my attitude towards reptiles. I have spoken with? of your fine
book of what I believe it will do, namely: make illegible heedless? people to visit and love and preserve our forest reservations.
I wish I could review it for some publication - I will write and see if I cannot I have written a book called Oldtime Gardens-
and I am sending a copy to you in margin: Alice Morse Earle