A BEGINNER IN FORESTRY 



BY ANNE WARNER 



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1AM very ignorant, but I am going where there must he a forest handy-- 



to learn. There is alwav- some- well, no one thought that I could find 



thing interesting in the ignorance it. I hunted from Berlin to Munich, 



of those who intend t<> grow wise. and even farther, en '--country, and I 



Those already \vi>e are interested be- found it as I never doubt that I shall 



cause they are consciou- how much is ti"d anything if I set out to look for it. 

 to be learned: and those equally ig- TIu- Gasthpf lies in the edge of the 



norant like to observe the struggles of Harz; the view from my windows is 



their fellow in evolution. Therefore. I " v ^' r a ^ a of cultivated fields, dotted 



am going to write out the steps the Wlth fifteen picturesque little villages; 



first steps of my own personal pro- f he comforts are all here, the beer is 



-ression. Perhaps it will amuse the ideal, my stove is equally good, and the 



ones who know it all anyway, but it is f , orest IS f , c1 "^' th: , lt whcn we cr " Ss 



not for them that I shall trouble to write ; the r " a<1 ''J' 1 ]'"' 1 ^ house we enter it 



it is for the others-the other, who at " nce " ^ e ari> .' S . u> . ancl ': S 1C 



know no more than I do myself (at IV' woocl -/ air - v ,?"' 1 ! l11 *e teacher that 



T , ,, I have so far. The forester is in Thur- 



present). I shall write for them in the ... , . , . , 



., , , , ,, ingia lor a fortnight whcs he comes 



home he will teach me gladly. Until 



In the hrst place, then. [ must begin t]u . n } ^ a (]erman ^^ and ^ 



it doesn't give pictures of the leaves. 



Lichtenberg ,s the place, and it is para- an(1 ( , ()CS jve a ,, thfi namcs jn } ^ n 



dise. \\ hen I came abroad to look for jt js ye j jttk . d tQ me 

 a place in the country, yet near a town. Y ou are to understand that T am well 



where everything should be pure grounded in the theories and ideals of 



country, except that there must be all the subject. I know all its bearings on 



the comforts of town, where I could history, commerce, and progress. 1 



have plenty of rooms and yet not be have learned by heart all the deficien- 



charged over three shillings a clay, and cies of bad management and just what 



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