THE TREE 6

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The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt about the knee:“What most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain,” quoth he; “’Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree!”

—From “The Blind Men and the        Elephant,” by John Godfrey Saxe

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