WILDWOOD WAYS 



slope to plant the sunshine banner a little 

 farther aloft for next year. Many cen- 

 turies they have been at it, but few of 

 them have climbed far, yet they so love 

 the hill that they cling tenaciously to the 

 ground they have gained and seem to 

 grow more vigorously there than on less 

 rugged soil. 



The roughest ledges of the hill jut 

 boldly to the southward, showing gray 

 granite shoulders to the sun and making 

 this side almost a sheer rock precipice. 

 Yet here the Highlander cedars have 

 chosen to make their climb in battalions, 

 plaiding the gray surface with russet 

 brown and olive green, clinging tena- 

 ciously by toe-tips where it would seem as 

 if only air-plants might find nourish- 

 ment. No other trees dare the bare 

 granite steep, though hickories flank the 

 cedars wherever the slopes of the ridge 

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