AUGUST 



19 



The pine wood loves a clean floor, and is intol- 

 erant of undergrowth. Grasses and sedges, with 

 all bushes, it frowns upon, as a model housekeeper 

 frowns upon dirt. A plain brown carpet suits it 

 best, with a modest figure of green preferably of 

 evergreen woven into it ; a tracery of partridge- 

 berry vine, or, it may be, of club moss, with here 

 and there a tuft of pipsissewa and pyrola. Its 

 mood is sombre, its taste severe. 



TOKKEY: The Foot-Path Way. 



2O 



I love to hear thine earnest voice, 



Wherever thou art hid, 

 Thou testy little dogmatist, 



Thou pretty Katydid ! 

 Thou mindest me of gentlefolks, 



Old gentlefolks are they, 

 Thou say'st an undisputed thing 



In such a solemn way. 



HOLMES: To an Insect. 



