1.   The practical problem, Marvin told me, was that he is no longer able to improve his maple tree stands.

2.   And, of course, always buy a tree that is too big to fit in your tree stand.

3.   At home, it becomes apparent that the tree will have to be customized to fit the tree stand.

4.   -- Use a correctly sized tree stand.

5.   Across the street, four trees stand outside Sixteenth Street Baptist Church witnessing to the four girls killed when the church was bombed.

6.   Eberhardt of Gainesville, Ga. was partially paralyzed from the waist down after a falling from a tree stand while deer hunting.

7.   Gebhard bent down to pull it back up and the hand climber of his tree stand slipped.

8.   I remembered a day when I sat in a nearby tree stand on a crisp, clear fall morning during bow season.

9.   I rushed home and began rummaging through the attic in search of the tree stand.

10.   Last October, when the woods were vibrant and the creatures afoot, I climbed into a tree stand at first light.