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I followed him deep into the pine-forest. Neither of us said much while yet the sacred gloom of it closed us round. We came to larger and yet larger trees -- older, and more individual, some of them grotesque with age. Then the forest grew thinner.
"You see that hawthorn? " said my guide at length, pointing with his beak.