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should like to hear from our fellow trees some common 

 quotations in reference to the oak. 



White Ash (Myrtle): "The unwedgeable and gnarled 

 oak." 



Black Ash (Ella) : " The old oaken bucket." 



Sugar Maple (Louise): "Jove's own tree that holds 

 the woods in awful sovereignty." 



Red Maple (Anna): "A goodly oak, whose boughs 

 were massed with age." 



Scarlet Oak (Ben) : " King of the woods." 



Blue Ash (Amy) : " Thy guardian oaks, my country, 

 are thy boast." 



Silver Maple (Kate) : " The monarch oak, the patri- 

 arch of trees." 



Butternut (Burke): "The oak, for grandeur, strength, 

 and noble size, excels all trees that in the forest grow." 



Black Walnut (Frank): "Tall oaks from little acorns 

 grow." 



Buttonwood (Harrison) : 



"Woodman, forbear thy stroke! 

 Cat not its earth-bound ties; 

 Oh, spare that aged oak, 

 Now towering to the skies." 



Sassafras (Henry) : 



" Behold yon oak, 

 How stern he frowns." 



