One of the large boughs of this tree had been torn off by the wind before we left Alfoxden, but five remained.

In 1841 we could barely find the spot where the tree had stood.

So remarkable a production of nature could not have been wilfully destroyed.
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*_Simon Lee, the old Huntsman_.

[VI.] This old man had been huntsman to the Squires of Alfoxden, which, at the time we occupied it, belonged to a minor.