Some Things the Trees Give 



LOOK around you in school. You are sitting 

 on a wooden seat. The seat rests on a wooden 

 floor, and perhaps the floor is part of a school- 

 house built of wood. The doors between the 

 rooms are wooden, too, and underneath the 

 plaster walls are lath and heavy studding, all 

 of wood. 



The book in your hand and the pad of paper 

 on your desk were once parts of a tree in the 

 forest. Your pencil and your penholder are 



STORY OF THE FOREST -7 97 



