1 8 THE TREE FOLK 



Something to get on your nerves if continued much 

 longer. It would be written as at B. But suppose that 

 same sequence of notes were to be sung by Galli Curci 

 as indicated by the marks and annotations ! You would 

 be thrilled and breathless and on tiptoe for the dying 

 echo of that last note. It has become an exquisite rhyth- 

 mic sequence of tone. 



Such was the mass of willow foliage represented by 

 the gray plume in the diagram. The Willows, discussing 

 after twelve o'clock at night their situation on the 

 bleak Cape, with the winds from the north Atlantic 

 pounding away at them, decided to cooperate to main- 

 tain the family tradition (Plate VIII). The first knelt 

 and held his umbrella with the handle almost horizontal. 

 This enabled the next to hold his standing, the third to 

 walk upright, and the last to pose nonchalantly as though 

 nothing had happened. Thus, all together they pro- 

 duced the massive crown of a gigantic Willow whose 

 ideal branches and bole out of sight in the ground are 

 indicated by the dotted lines. This is a far more impres- 

 sive presentation of the family ideal than any single in- 

 dividual could have achieved. 



When shall we quit saying, *' Competition is the hfe 

 of trade"? If it is the life of trade it is the death of 

 profits. Cooperation is the law of trade, and the life of 

 profits. Cooperation gave primitive man his victory over 

 the Saurians, the Romans victory over the Greeks, and 



