WILDWOOD WAYS 



them wide on the white surface, till it 

 will look as if spiced by the confectioner, 

 so well does the forest take care of its 

 own. The Lady Amina of the Arabian 

 tale picking single grains of rice at the 

 banquet might not seem to dine more 

 daintily. The spring will be near at 

 hand when the last of these birch seeds 

 will have been dispensed. Thus innumer- 

 able graneries are stored the woodland 

 and pasture through, so lightly locked 

 that all may pilfer, and so abundantly 

 filled, pressed down and running over 

 that there shall be no lack in either quan- 

 tity or variety. 



Far other and stranger forms of 

 winter-guarding forethought are to be 

 seen all about the big mowing field and 

 in the coppices that divide it from the 

 open marsh and the pond shore, if we 

 will but look for them. In many places 

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