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PREFACE.
The Olive tree, my dear children, is very useful and valuable, for its fruit, and for the oil that it produces. It grows in warm climates, and is much prized by their inhabitants.
A leaf of olive, was the first gift of the earth after the flood, to the righteous family who were saved in the ark. It was borne by the Dove, as she spread her timid wing over the wide waters, that drowned a sinful world. What re-