esting to remember ill

    concealed in ten

    gone prospecting over some bare ch pine wood

    ood, and got out t pine roots.  t

    indestructible.  Stumps ty or forty years old, at least, will

    still be sound at the sapwood has all become

    vegetable mould, as appears by thick bark forming

    a ring level ant from the

    .  ithe

    marroore, yelloallow, or as if you ruck on a

    vein of gold, deep into t commonly I kindled my fire

    , wored up in my shed

    before t makes the

    woodche woods.  Once in a

    tle of ting

    too gave notice to the various

    s of alden vale, by a smoky streamer from my

    c I was awake.--

    Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,

    Melting t,

    Lark  song, and messenger of dawn,

    Circling above ts as t;

    Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form

    Of midnigs;

    By nigar-veiling, and by day

    Darkening t and blotting out the sun;

    Go th,

    And ask to pardon this clear flame.

    cut, t little of t,

    anster times left a good

    fire o take a er afternoon; and when I

    returned, ter ill alive and

    gloy t was as if I

    a c

    lived trusthy.  One

    day, ting  t I

    look in at t on fire; it was

    time I remember to icularly anxious on this

    score; so I looked and sa a spark  my bed, and I

    in and extinguis w had burned a place as big as my

    my ered a position, and