24 A SUBURBAN RAMBLE 



have been forced to live on coarser food. Holes 

 drilled by a Woodpecker in search of insect food are 

 of obvious purpose. Throughout all the activities 

 of the lower orders we see the regular sequence 

 of cause and effect. In the distant forest a mark 

 on a tree will show where a deer has rubbed the 

 withered velvet from his horns. But who would 

 attempt to fathom the multitudinous impulses 

 that have prompted a lonely wayfarer to carve with 

 evident care a peculiar design on a Silver Birch in 

 the most secluded hollow of the suburban woods i 



