WILDWOOD WAYS 



the young trees set on the edge of their 

 grove that it is difficult to penetrate their 

 intertwining branches, and even when 

 you have passed this barrier you find the 

 trunks so close that often there is no 

 room to go between them. Here all 

 branches have passed and the straight 

 trunks run upward in close parallels mak- 

 ing all their struggle at the top. And a 

 struggle it has been indeed for all that 

 are now alive. You may note this by the 

 bare poles of those that have lagged be- 

 hind a little in the fight and lost the 

 magic touch of sunlight on their tops. 

 These are dead and bare, and their com- 

 panions have so immediately taken up 

 their slender space that you wonder how 

 the dead ones ever got so far as they 

 did. It is a very solemn temple under 

 these cedars. The living wall the dead 

 within the catacombs and the sighing of 

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