FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



some secluded part of the hills, we find 

 the coppice a neat-looking place. The 

 small wood that has been cut is care- 

 fully stacked along the roadside in 

 bundles or cords. Within one of the 

 sections we see the wood-cutters at 

 work with their axes and bill-hooks, 

 and can fancy them trudging home 

 contentedly at the close of day. We 

 find the rabbits taking the coppice for 

 their own, sporting about and wearing 

 tracks in the thickets. A quiet place, 

 and homelike withal. We can look 

 out above the thicket of young trees 

 at the sky and the older environing 

 woods. The sounds come mellowed 

 through the distance to this open spot, 

 as of the heavy ax in the large woods, 

 or the song of some woman in the far 

 valley. 



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