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range widely covering the ground at the foot of the poplar, the pine, the oak. cherry, hickory, walnut, and even of the locust, but that on the return 1 would use a closely controlled and disciplined method, concertrating on the poplar trees.

I also decided that 1 would wear tinted glasses outward bound and untinted ones on the return, hoping to distinguish, one way or the other, the subtle difference between Moorish brown of the merkle and the browns of last year’s fallen leaves, of rotted stumps and other fungi.

I was also alert for possible markers left bv merkle hunters, stone cairns that might tell me something; an occasional blaze on a tree, sticks and branches that appeared to have been arranged to point to something, not left by nature; a beer bottle, subtly pointing (I was becoming increasingly suspicious of merkle hunters), even a piece of tinfoil that appeared to have been left as litter drew my attention. I fol

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