ik! smooth as any other hickory, 
but grows not long till it 
begins to snarl at passers 
by, at which time it is ridic- 
ulous to me and makes me 
giggle This snappishness is 
like a pretty woman's pout- 
ing, attractive as laughter. 
And when a shell-bark sap- 
ling is, say, twenty feet hign, | have seen a bark which would suit the 
glad fancies of an artist. Lichens of select sort gather on their curl- 
ing rinds, yellowish and greenish lichens being favorites, and when 
these are on the bark and out under winter rains, they become beauti- 
ful as photogravures. If you suppose that, one shell-bark seen, all are 
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