"This is the genuine article, and it's certainly the product of a coniferous tree.

The fellow I got it from said it was found in the coldest parts of North America.

Seems to me we have tried all the varieties of the firs, but we're as far from finding what we want as when we started." "Hard luck!" Benson remarked gloomily.
Harding broke off a fragment and lighted it.
"Notice the smell.

It's characteristic." "The fellow may have been right on one point," said Blake.

"When I was in India I once got some incense which was brought down in small quantities from the Himalayas, and, I understood, came from near the snow-line.