WOOD ROADS 



in the thicket. Thus, before you know 

 it, you may have gone around the hill 

 any number of times, as strangers get 

 coursing in revolving doors in the en- 

 trances to city buildings and continue to 

 revolve until rescued. 



Nor can you tell where the most sedate 

 and straightforward one which you can 

 pick out will lead you, except that you 

 know it will be continually through a land 

 of delight, and that Eden is bound to be 

 just ahead of you. 



It is difficult to understand, though, in 

 all seriousness, how these roads persist. 

 Wood cut off over extensive areas grows 

 up again in thirty or forty years and fills 

 in the gap in the forest till no trace of 

 it remains, yet the roads by which it was 

 carted to the highway, leading once as 

 directly as possible, seem still to have 



some subtle power of resistance whereby 

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