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fruit-bearing trees, the place would soon become 

 a shadeless plain. 



I often wish the good old law formerly prac- 

 tised by the Dutch settlers at the Cape could be 

 put in force here ; there any one cutting down 

 a tree was obliged to plant three, and the good 

 result is seen in the lovely avenues and woods 

 of oak and fir. 



I cannot say I am sorry that some of the trees 

 have been cut down in my favourite hunting- 

 ground, " Monkey Wood," as I get my finest 

 specimens flitting through the open spaces and 

 resting on tree-trunks, where formerly I could 

 not attempt to use the net, and by cutting 

 away the underwood and some low branches I 

 have made paths to go where I please, so that 

 besides capturing many more insects I have the 

 opportunity of seeing many interesting things I 

 otherwise should miss. 



I often find, however, that after carefully clear- 

 ing a path, next morning it is so littered with 

 dead creepers and thorny bushes, ruthlessly torn 

 away and chopped down in the passage to a 



