It sounded like someone beating a board on a tree trunk.

The proper planting of a tree is essential to ensure survival.

Christmas tree farmers, like virtually all other professional farmers, use agricultural chemicals in a careful and prudent manner and Christmas tree recycling has become the norm in virtually all American communities.

A tax of this sort would be passed onto students. The institutions don't have a tree in the backyard that they can go to and just put that kind of money in.

He was bleeding between his arm pit and chest.

It was like his body was in slow motion. He was checking out. I pulled his T-shirt back and I could see the bullet holes.