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six feet to twelve feet high with small yellow highly spiced 

 flowers along its branches. Also called Benjamin bush, all- 

 spice. 



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Roustabouts: name given to the deck hands and common 

 colored workmen. 



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Rosin-barrels: rosin is made of the pitch of pine trees, it 

 remains after the turpentine has been distilled and taken off. 



CHAPTER VII 



A SONG OF THE WINTER WOODS 



This chapter explains itself. Don't fail to take a long 

 tramp this winter, alone, if you can't get some one to go with 

 you, into the woods and into the teeth of some wild, fierce 

 storm. When you get home tiy to think what makes the mem- 

 ory of the walk so full of pleasure. You may not have seen 

 any animal, nor heard anything but the wild wind, yet you are 

 glad you had the tramp, because of your feelings. What are 

 your feelings? Are they as real and worth while as facts and 

 observations'? 



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Cubby Hollow: a little pond near Bridgeton in New Jer- 

 sey near where the author lived as a boy. 



CHAPTER VIII 



ON THE 'POSSUM'S TRAIL 



The 'possum or opossum, is a marsupial or "pouched" ani- 

 mal, that is, having a skin pouch like the kangaroo on the ab- 

 domen in which it carries its young. It is the only one of the 



