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DOLL AND THE STARLING. 
A Morning Call. 
However early Doll the maid must rise, 
Albeit her master late last night did sup, 
She hears a voice that down the chimney cries, 
“ Get up, good Dorothy, get up, get up.” 
Then if she turns again to sleep, she hears 
A dog that barks for entrance at the door, 
Or pussy with loud mewing fills her ears, 
To beg her place the milk bowl on the floor. 
Still Doll the maid for slumber will not stir ; 
So the voice changes, — startled in her dream 
The butter paddles of the churning whirr, 
She needs must rise or spoil a whole week’s cream. 
And down the chimney sounds the wakeful voice, 
“ Although your master late last night did sup, 
Your work is waiting, and you have no choice 
But do it, Dorothy, get up, get up.” 
H. D. Rawnsley. 
FORESTRY. 
( Concluded fyom p. 193.) 
W we come to Germany, whose territory, it is true, 
does not touch the Mediterranean, though German 
people speaking the language of the Fatherland inhabit 
the country from the frontiers of the empire to the 
port of Trieste. The home of forestry is Germany, and here 
we look for the best methods of forest management. The 
science has been a progressive one, and whilst anything like 
a description of present or former systems must be left for 
other possible occasions, I may say here — quoting the late Dr. 
J. C. Brown — that “ In the advanced forest economy of the 
Continent reliance is placed upon natural reproduction by self- 
sown seed ; and artificial sowing or planting is employed only 
to fill spaces which may have been left blank in this process, 
and in the creation of new forests as in the reboisement of 
mountains, or the fixing and utilisation of drift sands.” The 
Royal Forest Academies of Prussia have been mentioned in 
my former paper, and in Saxony, YVurtemburg, Baden, Bavaria 
and other states, are to be found similar State institutions. 
Austria has no less than nine Imperial Schools. 
A residence of two years in the interior of Germany has 
