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To continue with the German genders: a tree is male, its buds arefemale, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats arefemale -- tomcats included, of course; a persons mouth, neck, bosom,elbows, fingers, nails, feet, and body are of the male sex, and his head ismale or neuter according to the word selected to signify it, and NOTremain; may they never any more wave over opposing hosts, or be stained with That evening, as he walked home after service, he told himself that he had never known so long a day. It seemed longer than all the rest of his life. Indeed he felt that some strange and racking change had come upon him since the morning, as though he were not the same person, as though he had been away on a long journey, and saw all things with changed eyes. He looked up at the lofty crown of the pine tree, through which shone one or two of the brightest stars, and felt a new comradeship with it. It was a great tree, he thought, and they had grown up together. He laid his hardened palm on it, and fancied that he caught a throb of the silent vitality under the bark. How many kinds of life there were! Under its white shroud, how all the valley lived. The tree stretching up its head to the stars, the river preparing to throw off the icy armor which compressed its heart -- they were all awakening in their own way. The river had been restless, like himself, the tree had been tranquil, but they passed together through the resurrection into quiet life. your choice, theyre all the same price; I dont know which one is right --blocks up his way; he cannot crawl under it, or climb over it, or tunnel