FOREST PICTURES 

 The Sueplice of Spring Frontispiece 



Facing 

 Page 



QuERcus Offered Himself Up to the Teeth 



OF THE Saw 10 



And So He Went from Tree to Tree 26 



The Scattered Maples on the Hillside 30 



Uncle Isaac, Long and Lean, Came to Help 



IN THE Sugar Bush 40 



Little Bells with Euby Clappers 54 



The White Poplar Was Already Awake. . 58 



The Cottonwood 60 



The Boxelder Was Green 62 



Easter Chimes 66 



The White Birch and the Beech Tree ... 68 



The Pomp and Glory of Spring 72 



The Sweetness of Its Summer Bloom 82 



Far Beyond the Valley 98 



**Come, Eest Under My Branches" 102 



Drivers Guided Them into the Current. . 108 



In a Quiet Harbor 110 



Once Upon a Time There Was a Forest 118 



The Conquest of the Forest 122 



The Eoots that Bound the Earth, the 

 Boughs that Shaded the Moist Earth, 



Were Gone 126 



*'FuLL TO THE Brim Our Eivers Flowed". . 130 

 He Meted Out Land for Farm and for 



Forest 136 



A Little Balsam-Fir Tree Grew in a Forest 144 



Christmas in the Woods 156 



