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be—as with us—some difference of opinion 
as to who has inherited the chief portion. 
Some will aver they are the principal heirs be- 
cause of certain deeds relative to a few acres 
here or there—even so. Others will lament 
and deem themselves defrauded of their 
heritage—having no deeds at all. A goodly 
number will sell their birthright for a mess 
of pottage and will go through life with- 
out ever really seeing the splendid estate 
which was rightfully theirs. Lastly a few— 
a chosen few—shall know that the true in- 
heritance, which is of God and not of man, is 
the love of the open,—the eye and the ear 
and the heart; the feeling for birds and for 
flowers, the companionship of the woods and 
fields, of the primeval forest, the everlasting 
hills and the mysterious opal deserts. And 
these shall not be concerned as to who owns 
most or least—seeing that their portion is the 
beauty of this estate, that to them, and to 
them alone, Nature yields herself as to the 
true inheritors of the land. 
