slippery tliat I had to 

 halt for a minute's rest 

 at the toj). The trees rose 

 straight and close and 

 slender, with scarcely a live 

 branch reaching out nearer 

 the ground than twenty feet. 

 The roof of green shut out 

 the light, and the matting of brown 

 spread the ground so deep that oidy 

 a few stunted blueberry-bushes, small 

 ferns, and straying runners of ground- 

 [IS!.] 



' She called me 



every ^v^c■ked 



thiiiK that slie 



ould think of." 



