"Press them for oil."
"What a great tree this is that you are gathering now!" said Ned. "Let's see if we can clasp it, Walter."
Putting their arms around the tree, they were barely able to touch the tips of their fingers.
"I didn't know olive trees grew so large," said Walter. "None of the others here are half as large as this. How brown the bark looks! and great furrows in it, just like an old willow, and the leaves look like willow leaves. It is hollow, too, and covered with warts."
"Yes, because it is so old."
"How old is it?"
"God only knows; perhaps as old as the world."
"As old as the world?"
"Yes, citizens, it might have been the first one made."
"The first one made!"