MOUNTAIN TREES 



Mrs. Eliza Conner Houton, one of the 

 few remaining survivors of the ill-fated 

 Donner party, tells me that, as a little 

 child, she noticed that the holes were al- 

 ways bored at a downward angle so that 

 it was impossible for the squirrels to get 

 a straight pull on the nuts, the acorn's 

 points always turning up when an at- 

 tempt was made at extraction, thus lodg- 

 ing the nuts in tighter than ever. Ques- 

 tion Does the wood-pecker know his 

 business? 



Particularly noticeable for beauty is 

 the trunk of the Ponderosa with its 

 great plates of salmon-red bark. These 

 noble, smooth, richly-hued shafts stand 

 like colonnades and pillars in the great 

 temple of the out-of-doors. Happy and 

 fortunate is that man who worships in 

 quietness in this cathedral of God's de- 

 sign with its sun-splashed and carpeted 

 aisles of rare scented needles. 



Would you know peace, would you 

 learn gentleness, do you long for rest? 

 It is here for you in these quiet woods. 



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