In the Christmas Woods Being the Introductory Essay of a Series On Observations
In the Christmas Woods Being the Introductory Essay of a Series On Observations
Adeline Knapp
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Here flows a swift, deep stream, always cold and usually clear. Evidently the wind has been at work, for across the creek, its spread- ing arms lifted as in appeal against its fate, a great alder lies, broken square off some six feet from its base. As I approach I hear the sharp "tap, tap" of a woodpecker's horny ax, and see the bird fly away. A good carpenter he, by his chips. He has thrown down a considerable pile of clean- cut bits of the hard, yellow wood. They look as tho they had been cut... by a tiny brpadax. Crawl- ing under the fallen tree I advance along the bank, but soon find my progress barred by a landslide. The softened earth above has given way, to slip down into the deep cut. Nothing but bed-rock is left, and the bare gray bones of the mountain In the Christmas Woods. glisten, wet with the driving rain. The sight awakens both awe and pity. I am glad to see how the mosses are hastening to clothe the rocks again. Tiny spikes of the * ' horsetail ' ' are already growing where, I am sure, horsetail has not grown for gen- erations.
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