50 



THE ASH, 



cultural implements ; for poles^ ladders, and 

 long handles ; and for purposes which require 

 strength, length, and flexibility, with compa- 

 rative lightness. Ship builders, also, use it 

 much ; and when, about the root, or stool as it 

 is called, the timber has become knotty and 

 variegated in its grain, it is in request by me- 

 chanics, for cabinet work, on the continent. 

 I believe that ash is useful at almost any 

 growth, from the yard-and-half twig, employed 

 in the correction of naughty boys" — 



Or^der ! Order I " whispered Frederick, co- 

 louring at the allusion. 



I begged pardon ; and continued by observ- 

 ing that the thinnings of plantations, and the 

 suckers that spring up from the roots of young 

 trees, or from the stools of those that have 

 been felled, are excellent for the purposes I 

 had mentioned, namely, hoops, hop-poles, and 

 such things. 



