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scattered on the ground beneath it ? But a tree is 

 not communicative upon short acquaintance. It 

 is shy of a stranger, as it were, and only warms 

 into genial but mute companionship upon seeking 

 its protection. Then, it may be, every wrinkle of 

 its rugged bark will brighten to a smile, and the 

 limbs that at first were held aloft will reach over 

 us as sheltering arms. 



With the many beautiful flowers that the wan- 

 derers continually brought to the carriage were 

 numbers of those clammy, curious growths, familiar 

 to many as " Indian pipe." Attention being called 

 to it, the plant was found growing in great luxuri- 

 ance everywhere about us. It was a rather strange 

 but pleasant coincidence. Here we were deterred 

 from relic-hunting, and with this plant, that is so 

 suggestive of the Indian's chief treasure, his to- 

 bacco-pipe, scattered over the ground. If it be 

 true that the plain bowl and slender stem, fashioned 

 in clay by the Indians, is their oldest and original 

 form of pipe, then, indeed, they may have taken a 

 hint from the plant in question. Nothing is more 

 common on one-time village-sites of these people 

 than clay pipes of this pattern, and their close re- 



