THROUGH GLADE AND COVERT. 135 
through glade and covert a strip of forest, covered 
with some noble forms of Oak and Beech, and thence 
descend to the margin of a brook, and, if we choose, 
rest a moment under the shelter of an Oak and a 
Beech, which, growing bole to bole, fling their broad 
arms across the narrow waterway, the outermost 
of the lower oaken branches almost touching the 
graceful tip of a young Ash, which, with an am- 
bitiousness characteristic of this Tree, has drawn 
itself up above a tangled mass of prickly Holly, 
dog-rose, and climbing blackberry. 
