QUE.RCUS ALBA 



only the bare branches arose as 

 shade. Between them, fair upon 

 the moist, fertile, forest floor, fell 

 the hot rays. Under their influ- 

 ence thousands of tiny seedlings, 

 product of the previous season's 

 acorn crop, hitherto struggling for 

 life, began to respond, and like 

 puny sun-starved children of city 

 slums, of a sudden transported to 

 the realm of sunlight, took on life 

 and the color of health. Here and 

 there other acorns, hitherto dor- 



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