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sand miles. Loggers are far more likely to be 

 met than Indians or bears in the reserves or about 

 their boundaries, brown weather-tanned men with 

 faces furrowed like bark, tired-looking, moving 

 slowly, swaying like the trees they chop. A 

 little of everything in the woods is fastened to 

 their clothing, rosiny and smeared with balsam, 

 and rubbed into it, so that their scanty outer gar- 

 ments grow thicker with use and never wear out. 

 Many a forest giant have these old woodmen 

 felled, but, round-shouldered and stooping, they 

 too are leaning over and tottering to their fall. 

 Others, however, stand ready to take their places, 

 stout young fellows, erect as saplings ; and 

 always the foes of trees outnumber their friends. 

 Far up the white peaks one can hardly fail to 

 meet the wild goat, or American chamois, — an 

 admirable mountaineer, familiar with woods and 

 glaciers as well as rocks, — and in leafy thickets 

 deer will be found ; while gliding about unseen 

 there are many sleek furred animals enjoying 

 their beautiful lives, and birds also, notwithstand- 

 ing few are noticed in hasty walks. The ousel 

 sweetens the glens and gorges where the streams 

 flow fastest, and every grove has its singers, how- 

 ever silent it seems, — thrushes, linnets, warblers ; 

 humming-birds glint about the fringing bloom of 

 the meadows and peaks, and the lakes are stirred 

 into lively pictures by water-fowl. 



The Mount Rainier Forest Reserve should be 



