SWAYING TREE TOPS 



can poorly describe the pleasure 

 therefrom; and so can only partially 

 stimulate the disinterested ones who 

 prefer to remain along the pavements 

 or in the gloomy houses of the aver- 

 age city or town. 



As with other tastes, the love for 

 the open is a cultivated one. After 

 its development, one wonders how 

 he could have been satisfied by the 

 "shut-in life." He pled fatigue, 

 lack of time, and other excuses, but 

 when he has grown to love the open, 

 he finds that he is rested by going 

 out, and saves time by being able to 

 do better and more work when he re- 

 turns. In the early winter the dead 

 leaves hold one to the past enough for 

 rootage, and the sunshine fills the 

 soul with gladness, and inspires one's 



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