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tions looked alike to the Boy. But 

 the Scholar went on and on and a 

 great fear grew up in the Boy's 

 heart that they were lost. The af- 

 ternoon was drawing on and the 



latter called out in a sort of sing- 

 song the size of the trees within a 

 certain distance of his side of the 

 tape as ''pine fifteen; oak, ten; 

 spruce twenty; maple twelve." 



'They took their coats off and began to plant little trees about a foot high." 



Boy thought with horror of spend- 

 ing the night in a tree with nothing 

 to eat. Just as he was going to 

 tnention his fear and ask the Scholar 

 if he thought he could find his way 

 again, that person said, "I guess the 

 boys will be over there by now," 

 and began to shout "Hoo-Hoo-oo." 

 Sure enough, back came the answer- 

 ing shout and after a few minutes 

 TDrisk walking they came up with 

 four of the men walking straight 

 through the forest. The leader car- 

 ried a compass and directed his steps 

 l)y that. In his other hand he trail- 

 ed a steel tape, the other end of 

 which was in charge of the most 

 rearward man in the party. In this 

 way they knew exactly the direc- 

 tion and the distance they walked. 

 On each side of the tape walked 

 one other man. Each one of these 



Tree Measuring, 

 Then the Boy noticed that the 

 man who had the rearward end of 

 the tape carried a pad of ruled paper 

 on a sort of board and marked down 

 the names and sizes of the trees as 

 the two men called them out. How 

 the tallier could mark down the 

 names and sizes of trees so fast puz- 

 zled the Boy and he got out his 

 scribbling book and tried to keep up. 

 He quickly saw he could not write 

 down the name of the tree each time ; 

 but even when he had written the 

 names of the trees he could not 

 write the figures to indicate their 

 size fast enough. Then he found 

 that the tallyman's pad had the 

 names of the trees written down one 

 side and opposite these were spaces 

 marked in inches with all the sizes 

 commonly met with in the trees they 



