By Gary Peterson

around 1736, he was given a small hatchet by his father, Augustine. The boy was very fond of his axe, and he went about chopping almost everything that came his way. One day, as he wandered about the garden amusing himself by hacking away at this and that, he chanced upona beautiful, young English cherry tree, the pride of his father’s orchard. ................
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