QUERCUS ALBA 



events they germinated, their roots 

 never reached earth, and in con- 

 sequence they withered and died. 

 But under beating rain the ma- 

 jority were driven down, down 

 through the soft blanket until their 

 roots grasped the bed of the com- 

 mon mother, and, as their predeces- 

 sors had done the season before, 

 they grew mightily in the rich 

 loam. Oh, the second season after 

 the catastrophe, the marshalling of 

 the forces for the future battle! 



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