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One family in northeast Pennsylvania, for example, farmers who tapped maple trees to make syrup, watched as crews cut 558 of their trees to make way for a pipeline.

“Treat every crime as if the victim were your mother,” Maple would say.

Whisk together maple syrup and whiskey, add as much whiskey as desired.

Those same Maple and Brown Sugar packets bear an FDA-approved seal proclaiming them heart healthy.

A single packet of Quaker Maple and Brown Sugar instant oatmeal, though, contains a full tablespoon of sugar.

Sally ate it with maple syrup; at home we ate the store-bought kind with ketchup.

As they drove up under the maple-trees before the low iron gate, he said, Has this year been a happy year to you?

The Ash, of course, thought he had as much right to stand there as the Maple, and he said he would not stir a limb.

They bent their heads so low and close to listen, that an arm of the Maple slipped through an arm of the Ash.

"No, you are not," retorted the Ash, and he sent the Maple back with a great push of his strong elbow.

They forgot to give thanks for the sweet waters of the maple, and for the planting season.