This farm as I said in the story was in Africa but I didn't give the name of the country and Africa a big place Well in one part of the land which the farmer owned there was a small river with low hills at each side On one of these hills some fine trees were growing close together It was not a forest you understand just a few big trees on a hill but because of the things that happened later In the story there had to be ninety -seven trees they were of a very fine kind of wood and their value was part of the story so at the beginning I said that there were ninety -seven