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THE PROBLEM OF THE HICKORY TREE

LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY

From the March 1911 issue of The Christian Science Journal

A CERTAIN hickory tree which shades our lawn has lately been the means of teaching so valuable a lesson that its story is here told for the benefit of others who, figuratively speaking, may have hickory trees on their own premises. Each year when the arrival of spring causes the other trees to put forth their leaves, this one stands for weeks in gaunt and bare unloveliness.