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noble, or a more patriotic monument than a tree 

 planted by the hands of pure and joyous children, 

 as a memorial of his achievements?" 



LOSSING. 



Sixth Pupil. 



"Oh! Rosalind, these trees shall be my books, 

 And in their barks my thoughts I'll character, 

 That every eye which in this forest looks, 

 Shall see thy virtue witnessed everywhere." 



SHAKESPEARE. 



Seventh Pupil. 



"There is something unspeakably cheerful in a 

 spot of ground which is covered with trees, that 

 smiles amidst all the rigors of winter, and gives us 

 a view of the most gay season in the midst of that 

 which is the most dead and melancholy." 



ADDISON. 

 Eighth Pupil. 



"As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all nox- 

 ious qualities of the air, and to breath forth a purer 

 atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from 

 us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth 

 peace and philanthropy." 



IRVING. 



Ninth Pupil. 



"I care not how men trace their ancestry, 

 To ape or Adam; let them please their whim; 



