caress, for it is carven into 

 hundreds of hundreds of 

 cameos so lovely as that 

 they might each be a seal 

 for an artist's ring and 

 carven by Nassaro in the 

 days when his eyesight and 

 artist's instinct were perfec 

 tion This picture as you 

 see it is a hint only, for 

 every beech trunk has its 

 own wealth of cameos. 

 And you may use many a 

 daylight looking over their 

 patterns, just as you look 

 over the precious stones 



in a cabinet, without any sense of weariness or 

 repetition. 



A hackberry is a beautiful trunk This one is 

 a picture taken from my farm, though truth to say 

 it is the most beautiful hackberry bole I have ever 

 seen. Deep corrugations, as if sculptured by some 

 genius And indeed, so it was; for this genius 

 sculptor was God He is painter, poet, landscape- 

 gardener, botanist, lover of flowers, keeper of birds, 



