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A Visitor from Paradise
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"That's a comfortable tree there; let us roost in the branches like the birds." So they took the


Up the Tree

door up with them and laid down to sleep on it as comfortable, as comfortable can be.

Now it happened that a band of robbers had just broken into a castle near by and taken out a great lot of plunder; and they came under the very tree to divide it. And when they began to