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winter, half -soles shoes, etc. ; was married awhile 

 and lived in sixteen different houses in eleven 

 years. His wife is now dead and he "baching" 

 with his brother. ' ' Has done a lot of hard work 

 in his time" but is going to take it more easy 

 from now on. Is fifty-seven years old, stout and 

 hearty. We sit down and talk of the old town 

 or hamlet to the east where I first knew him and 

 of which I often dream. I tell him so and he 

 says he does not even wish to dream of it. He 

 gets $1.00 a hundred for bean poles. Can cut 

 them for that, but how about the carrying of 

 them into town! 



The dockmakie or maple-leaved viburnum, 22 a 

 handsome branching shrub three to five feet high 

 and closely akin to the black-haw, grows along 

 the crests of these ridges ; as does also, but much 

 more rarely, the pipsissewa or spotted winter- 

 green, 23 a low evergreen plant whose shining 

 ovate lanceolate leaves are on the upper side 

 prettily variegated with white markings. 



Butternuts 24 still flourish on the slopes of this 

 old pasture, but are much less common and of 

 smaller size than those of a third of a century 

 ago. They are a favorite tree of mine, the deep- 

 ly grooved gray bark, wide spreading branches 

 and compound pinnate leaves forming a pleas- 

 ing combination. Not long-lived are they like the 



22 Viburnum acerifolium L. ^ Chimaphila maculata L. 

 24 Juglans cinerea L. 



