The Old Man and the Tree
The stately hemlock tree had likely stood guard for longer than the age of the old man. But unfortunately, its prior owner had topped it and this led to internal rot and death of the tree. It was this condition that forced the old man to make the decision to have the tree removed. Since the old man didn't climb trees, he hired a tree service to take the tree down. On the appointed day, the logger and his assistant showed up and concurred that the tree needed to come down. His plan was to bring it down in sections as there wasn't enough room to drop the tree in one piece. Besides, the probable only value of the tree was now in its use as firewood. So, after climbing the tree and removing the dead branches from this forest giant, he cut the tree in sections and dropped them into the old man's back yard. Piece by piece, down it came until there was only about a twenty foot section left. The logger then dropped that one section with a single cut of his mighty...