The happy decision to reprint the story of Old Parsley in book form (after its first appearance in Woman's Day in 1953) brings us the tale of how a gnarled pine growing on an abyss helped the animals who lived nearby. Parsley the deer and his family are already in debt to the tree for having sheltered them. But they are even further benefited when a branch of the tree catches the binoculars of an unfortunate hunter- and artfully dangles them in a position that allows the animals to use them to spy future marauders of the human sort.
