Aug. ii, 1906.] 
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THE GREAT OAK. 
From Alfred Barron’s “Foot Notes.” 
On one of the roads leading to West Rock 
there were three trees, two white oaks and a wal¬ 
nut, that had achieved royalty. One soon gets a 
sort of property feeling in the noble things with 
which he is surrounded. But loving your neigh¬ 
bor’s trees while he has the power to cut them 
down and put them to base uses, is as perilous 
as giving your heart to a woman who may prove 
to be the property of another. I noticed some 
time ago • that one of those oaks had been cut 
down; it was but a sorry consolation to think 
that its great strong arms might be going to 
strengthen the sides of some high-masted ship. 
When a great thing is destroyed, I say some¬ 
body ought to be punished unless he can make a 
good defense of himself. What do .1 care for the 
rights of property then ? So I go to the side of 
the road, and there is a dialogue carried on over 
a chestnut rail splashed with lichens. 
“You are getting some pretty nice ship-timber 
out of that old oak?” 
“We are getting a lot of very hard work out 
of it.” 
“Oh, I reckoned you were cutting it down for 
ship-timber.” 
“We could have got some, but it would have 
taken a great deal of hard work.” 
“So you cut it down just to make wood?” 
“Can't use only the limbs for that.” And they 
smiled at the notion of making firewood out of 
that great knotted bulk. 
“I suppose you know that was one of the larg¬ 
est oaks anywhere about here?” 
“Yes, it was a pretty big one.” 
“Well, if I had wanted to buy your farm, I 
would have given you $50 more for it if that tree 
had remained standing.” 
They didn’t smile at that remark * * ' * I 
venture to assert that if the owner of that oak 
had let it be, and had attended well to its dis¬ 
course, he would have got more good from it 
than from many a sermon. I can only give the 
text on which the oak enlarges: 
“Be strong, be patient in slow gains, and grow 
only for noble uses.” 
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