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A TEMPLE Anna Bagstad 155 



TREES Julia E. Rogers 156 



THE REAL TREE . . . Oliver Wendell Holmes 157 



A SPRAY OF PINE John Burroughs 159 



DREAMY, GLOOMY, FRIENDLY TREES 



Herbert Trench 160 



THE TWIG THAT BECAME A TREE 160 



THE AGE OF TREES 162 



THE PINE TREE John Ruskin 162 



THE TREE Jones Very 163 



THE GLORY OF THE WOODS . Susan Fenimore Cooper 164 



THE AMERICAN FORESTS John Muir 165 



TALKING IN THEIR SLEEP . . . Edith M. Thomas 177 



THE FOREST Richard Jefjeries 178 



THE VOICE OF THE PINE . Richard Watson Gilder 182 



FORMS AND EXPRESSIONS OF TREES . Wilson Flagg 184 



SONG Thomas Love Peacock 189 



A FRANK AVOWAL N. P. Willis 190 



1 SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE OAK GROWING 



Walt Whitman 191 



THE MAPLE James Russell Lowell 192 



UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE William Shakespeare 193 



THE LESSON OF A TREE .... Walt Whitman 193 



THE BEAUTY OF TREES Wilson Flagg 194 



THE SNOWING OF THE PINES 



Thomas Wentworth Higginson 195 



MEN AND TREES Edith M.Thomas 196 



THE WAYSIDE INN 198 



FOREST HYMN .... William Cullen Bryant 199 

 HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS (a selection) 



Sir Walter Scott 204 



THE MAJESTY OF TREES . . . Washington Irving 205 



A FAMOUS COUPLET .... Alexander Pope 205 



A FEW OLD PROVERBS Anonymous 206 



