he grew better acquainted with Mister 
Chip. These Pennsylvania mountain 
people are proud. It is born in their 
veins. Gratuities are not welcome. 
However poor they may be, they ask 
no favors, look for none, expect none. 
Chip was a giant when it came to an 
aggregate of all the characteristic Pike 
County attributes. 
“Howdy,” he drawled, stroking his 
beard with a none too delicate hand, 
“stayin’ up a while?” 
“Yes, Sir,” I admitted, “the owner 
of the place has kindly allowed us to 
make camp here. Mighty pretty spot 
—and wild.” 
"Oh, you’all wont be worried by 
callers,,” Chip grinned, “but I might 
pass a word of warnin’; be careful ov 
fire . . . won’t yu? Please. Ef yu go 
out in th’ woods . . . don’t leave no 
camp fires burning. Don’t throw no 
matches this way an’ that, without 
bein’ sure they’s out. I’ve seen a d—n 
cigarette cost us ten thousand dollars 
worthov trees up in this district.” 
Now I knew it would pay to continue 
the conversation. Sonnyboy would 
surely profit by what was to follow. 
“Forest fires?” I coaxed. 
“There aint no bigger sin that man 
does,” Chip continued, his eyes blazing 
under those shaggy, reddish brows, 
“an’ I always have to wonder why it 
is that we are so short-sighted . . . we 
as go to school and are supposed to 
learn SOME sense. A little tree takes 
root ... it grows an’ grows ... a 
forest ov them . . . two or three gen¬ 
erations ov families come an’ go, jest 
to see that forest come to full growth. 
Then . . . somebody thinks they’d like 
to fish fer trout . . . er take a shot at 
deer ... a camp fire, not quite out 
... a cigarette stump, pitched inter 
pine-needles and dry leaves! Then, 
fer days and nights, us folks as live 
here an’ love what’s here, fight as if 
we was fightin’ in a great War, jest to 
stop that fire before it sweeps an entire 
mountain range. Twenty-five years uv 
tree, burned to a crisp in ten minutes 
sr so, because a man can’t be careful. 
Don’t make sense . . . does it?” 
And I was proud of Sonnyboy as he 
reclaimed, spontaneously: 
“It certainly doesn’t, Sir. No . . . 
Mo!” 
j “Aside from jes’ burnin’ TREES,” 
said Chip, warming up to an admit- 
edly hot subject, “look at what else 
lappens. Them fires destroys th’ litter 
tn’ humus. It’s stuff as covers forest 
loors”—he turned to Sonnyboy, al- 
hough I was much in need of the 
hings he was about to say . . . “when 
ires is heavy, they burn right down 
o rock er mineral. I’ve seen fires up 
lere as follered roots on down through 
h’ very ground. Th’ fire as consumes 
nly material ABOVE th’ general level 
( Continued on page 414) 
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