WILDWOOD WAYS 



there you can see big trees that lurch in 

 strange fashion, some this way and some 

 that. This is most often true of a pine 

 that by some chance has grown among 

 them. The cause is the uncertain footing 

 of the slimpsy bog. As they get heavier 

 and taller they cannot find sufficient an- 

 chorage in the yielding wallop beneath 

 their roots, and sooner or later a wind 

 comes that tips them over. But I found 

 in places among the sheltering larger 

 trees, groups of young ones, cedars, that 

 could have suffered from no wind, they 

 were so well protected and walled round 

 by their elders. These were laid down in 

 brief windrows all in the same direction, 

 and I wonder still what force accom- 

 plished it. If it had been a tropical 

 jungle I should have said that here a hip- 

 popotamus wandered up out of the depths 

 and back again, or here an elephant fled 

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