A small wedge of solid wood was all that was holding it up.
I let my eyes follow the smooth white trunk up to the huge spreading limbs.
Sobbing, I said, “You think you have won, but you haven’t.
Although I can’t get the coon, neither can you live, because I have cut off your breath of life.”
And then I thought. “Why kill the big tree and not accomplish anything?”
I began to feel bad. Kneeling down between my dogs, I cried and prayed.
“Please God, give me the strength to finish the job. I don’t want to leave the big tree like that. Please help me finish the job.”
I was trying to rewrap my hands so I could go back to work when I heard a low droning sound.
I stood up and looked around. I could still hear the noise but couldn’t locate it.
I looked up. High in the top of the big sycamore a breeze had started the limbs to swaying.
A shudder ran through the huge trunk. I looked over to my right at a big black gum tree.
Not one limb was moving. On its branches a few dead leaves hung silent and still.
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