198 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
bold and dauntless front is made by the brave 
warriors of Queen Boadicea. The green leaves 
quiver in the moonlight, as the troops defile 
through the glades of Epping Forest, and, 
flushed with recent victory, hastily pursue 
their march, eager once more to encounter the 
foe. But now the Roman general, Suetonius 
Paulinus, is in the field, and the star of Britain 
wanes. A furious battle results in the entire 
overthrow of the brave Warrior Queen and her 
dauntless followers. The men are mercilessly 
slain by their revengeful conquerors, and Queen 
Boadicea seeks death by her own hand. It is 
still Epping Forest which is the scene of the 
tragical ending of a brave-hearted Queen, who 
had fought gallantly for the wild freedom of her 
native home and of her native woods. 
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The scene has changed. More than eighteen 
hundred years have rolled away since Queen 
Boadicea died in Epping Forest. The forest Trees 
of her time have long since disappeared: but 
what was forest land then is forest land now. 
Successive generations of Trees have come into 
