FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
fection which the sailor has for the 
ocean. There is, indeed, a similarity 
between their callings, and even the ele- 
ments in which they pass their lives 
are not so dissimilar in reality as may 
appear on the surface. In his vast 
domain of evergreen trees that cover 
mountain and valley, the woodsman, 
too, is shut out from the busier haunts 
of men. He lives for months in his 
sequestered camp or cabin, where his 
bed is often only a narrow bunk of 
boughs or straw. His food is simple 
and his clothing rough and plain, to 
suit the conditions of his life. A 
large part of the time he is out in 
snow and rain, tramping over rough 
rock and soil. The camps that are 
scattered through the forest are to him 
like islands, where he can turn aside 
138 
