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On the slopes of Long's Peak in the Himalayas lies the ruins of a gigantic tree. Naturalists tell us that it stood four hundred years. During the course of life, it was struck by lightening fourteen times and the innumerable avalanches and storms of four centuries thundered past it. It survived them all. At the end, however, an army of beetles attacked the tree and leveled it to the ground. The insects ate their way through the tree by their incessant attacks.

A forest giant, which age had not withered, nor lightening blasted, nor storms subdued, fell at last to beetles so small that a man could crush them between his fingers and his thumb.

The forest giant, as told by Naturalists, stood for:

A) Centuries

B) Fourteen years

C) For the time immemorial

D) Four hundred years

E) None of these