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glibly and cynically of these faithful trees with 

 such expressions as "A Dore garden!" "111- 

 shapen fiends!" "How foolish to live here!" 

 and ' ' Criminal classes ! ' ' More appreciative was 

 the little eight-year-old girl whose ascent of 

 Long's Peak I have told of in "Wild Life on the 

 Rockies." She paid the trees at timber-line as 

 simple and as worthy a tribute as I have ever 

 heard them receive: "What brave little trees 

 to stay up here where they have to stand all the 

 time with their feet in the snow!" 



The powerful impressions received at timber- 

 line lead many visitors to return for a better 

 acquaintance, and from each visit the visitor 

 goes away more deeply impressed: for timber- 

 line is not only novel and strange, it is touched 

 with pathos and poetry and has a life-story that 

 is heroic. Its scenes are among the most pri- 

 meval, interesting, and thought-compelling to 

 be found upon the globe. 



