THE CONIFEROUS FORESTS 
that have grown up in undisturbed 
simplicity. After the first feeling of 
strangeness wears off, as it soon will, 
they grow companionable and interest- 
ing. There is a virtue in the sturdy 
forms that have grown to maturity 
without aid or interference by man. 
We would not change them in that 
place for the most beautiful trees in a 
park. Even the woodsman, whose 
days are spent here in the hardest toil, 
feels a longing for the forest, his home, 
when his short respite in the summer 
is over. So we, too, though we may 
long for civilization after a few months 
in the forest, will yet feel the desire to 
return to it after once thoroughly mak- 
ing its acquaintance. 
The attitude of the woodsman to- 
ward the forest is much like the af- 
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