caress, for it is carven into 
hundreds of hundreds of 
cameos so lovely as that 
they might each be a seal 
B for an artist's ring and 
™ carven by Nassaro in the 
days when his eyesight and 
artist's instinct were perfec 
tion This picture as you 
see it is a hint only, for 
every beech trunk has its 
own wealth of cameos. 
And you may use many a 
daylight looking over their 
patterns, just as you look 
over the precious stones 
in a cabinet, without any sense of weariness or 
repetition. 
A hackberry is a beautiful trunk This one is 
a picture taken from my farm, though truth to say 
it is the most beautiful hackberry bole I have ever 
seen. Deep corrugations, as if sculptured by some 
genius And indeed, so it was; for this genius 
sculptor was God He is painter, poet, landscape- 
gardener, botanist, lover of flowers, keeper of birds, 
A HACKBERRY 
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