The Creating of Game Refuges 



to which of them bears itself the more bravely. 

 Here is a chestnut tree ; but look not overhead for 

 its sheltering branches. This is a country of sur- 

 prises, arid if the alder tree towers on high, the 

 dwarf chestnut or chinkapin here delegates to the 

 mountains the pains of struggling toward the 

 heavens, and, contented with its lowly estate, 

 freely offers to the various "small deer" of the 

 forest its horde of sweet, three-cornered nuts. 



Under the pines one catches a distant gleam of 

 the snow plant, an exquisite sharp note of color, of 

 true Roman shade, such as Rossetti loved to intro- 

 duce into his pictures, shrill like the vibrant wood 

 of the flute. When a ray of the sun happens to 

 strike this it gleams like a flaming fiery sword, 

 symbol of that which marked the entrance to 

 Paradise. One can circumvent this guard here, 

 and when he is in these hills he is not far removed 

 from a country well worth protecting by all pos- 

 sible ingenuity, a paradise open to all such as love 

 pure air and wholesome strong exercise. 



Much of the San Gabriel Reserve is rugged and 

 well protected by nature to be the home of the 

 deer. San Bernardino, on the contrary, is the 

 most accessible of the southern reserves, with 

 abundant feed for the horses of those who visit it, 

 well watered, and full of noble trees. So open is 



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