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resinous juices of the tree ooze out and 

 trickle down the bark in threads as pellucid 

 as amber a fragrance not only grateful to 

 the sense and full of pleasant associations, 

 but wholesome and medicinal in the highest 

 degree. Furthermore, the open character 

 of the ground in a pine woods is a constant 

 delight to the rambler. His feet tread upon 

 a smooth, springy carpet of pine needles, 

 free from undergrowth, and his eye takes 

 in wide perspectives of woodland beauty, 

 ranging down the solemn and stately aisles 

 of tree-trunks. And who is insensible to 

 the charm of that exquisite seolian music 

 of the wind in the pine-branches ? a music 

 unequaled by any other forest sound, save, 

 perhaps, the noble hymn of falling water. 

 Last, but not least, the pine groves are the 

 favorite haunts of our woodland songsters 

 during the summer, and there we may con 

 fidently expect to see and hear most of the 

 rarer varieties of wild birds in any vicinity 

 during a day of quiet observation. 



On many accounts, then, the pines are 



the ideal summer woods; and the writer 



has been well pleased to observe that, in 



many localities, especially in New Eng- 



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