Analysis Of Timber ! By Richard Brookhiser

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The text I found is short story titled “Timber!” written by Richard Brookhiser.
The author, Richard Brookhiser, is an American historian, biographer, and journalist (Richard Brookhiser, 2016) . He is a senior editor at National Review. Also, he is mostly known for his literary contributions of series of biographies of America’s founders including Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and George Washington (Wikipedia, 2016) .
A story of how a tree amid the dark night of the forest fell then cut into timbers the following days. According to the author, it is a large butternut tree, of fifty to sixty feet tall which took a big chunk of possibly a forty-feet-long maple with it. Cleaning up the big fallen trees could not be done by single manpower,

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