WOODLAND PATHS 



of bark is hardly to be discerned, so the 

 carpeting of the floor of this temple and 

 the upholstering of its furniture is brown 

 and green. The thin rays of the sun that 

 filter through here and there are greenish 

 gold, till the whole gives an under-water 

 atmosphere to the place, and you walk 

 about as a diver might on the sea-bottom, 

 with things new and strange floating at 

 every hand. 



Mosses in the ordinary woodland we 

 are apt to pass with unseeing eye. They 

 decorate rocks and trees, dead stumps and 

 earth with such unobtrusive good taste 

 that we come back feeling the beauty of 

 the woodland, and not at all knowing 

 what made it. Some fence corner or 

 group of trees or. shrubs or a stump has 

 touched us with its beauty, and so well 

 dressed it is in its moss clothes that we 



have not seen them at all, but have come 

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