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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: In the Christmas Woods - Being the introductory essay of a series on observations of - nature through the year - -Author: Adeline Knapp - -Illustrator: William Keith - -Release Date: December 27, 2020 [eBook #64149] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team - at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images - generously made available by The Internet Archive) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE CHRISTMAS WOODS *** - - - - -[Illustration: “Coming up the Trail toward the Daylight.”] - - - - - IN THE CHRISTMAS WOODS - _Being the introductory essay of a series on observations of nature - through the year_ - - - BY - - ADELINE KNAPP - - Author of “Upland Pastures,” Etc. - - - With an illustration by William Keith - - - DONE AT THE PRESS OF - THE STANLEY-TAYLOR COMPANY - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - 1899 - - - - - Copyright, 1899, by - THE STANLEY-TAYLOR COMPANY. - - - - - RAIN UP THE MOUNTAIN. - - - Along the serried slopes a white shape creeps, - Through oak-fringed cañon ways, and up the steeps, - A mystery of silent, shrouding deeps; - Like spirit touching earth while Nature sleeps. - - It stirs beneath the laurels, stirs within - The redwood’s circling shade, and light and thin, - Where the brown towhee builds, and spiders spin, - Shuts the twist manzanita’s tangle in. - - With swaying tops and quivering leaves adart, - Held for a while within the mist’s white heart - Like shadowy travelers ready to depart— - Tall, wavering shapes of eucalyptus start. - - From far below, where level spreads the plain; - Traveling with jeweled feet the hastening grain, - Touching the slumbering hills to life again, - Marching along the summits, comes the rain! - - - - - _OF BEAUTY._ - -_We ought to observe that even the things that follow after the things -which are produced according to nature contain something pleasing and -attractive.... The ears of corn bending down, and the lion’s eyebrows, -and the foam which flows from the mouth of wild boars, and many other -things—tho they are far from being beautiful if a man should examine -them severally—still, because they are consequent upon the things which -are formed by nature, help to adorn them, and they please the mind; so -that if a man should have a feeling and deeper insight with respect to -the things which are produced in the universe, there is hardly one of -those which follow by way of consequence, which will not seem to him to -be in a manner disposed so as to give pleasure.... And in an old woman -and an old man he will be able to see a certain maturity and comeliness, -and the attractive beauty of young persons he will be able to look upon -with chaste eyes, who has become truly familiar with nature and her -works._ - - _MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS._ - - - - - IN THE CHRISTMAS WOODS. - - -When Nature decides that her Christmas gift to us shall be a rainstorm, -she does not send any niggardly shower. It is raining in earnest; not -the swift, drenching downpour of earlier winter, that washes the earth -of its summer garb of dust, nor the small rain upon the tender grass of -Springtime, but a steady, penetrating descent of water from a -leaden-gray sky, with the wind in the South. It is good for all day. My -farmer neighbor cocks a shrewd eye skywards and says it is “raining -twenty-dollar-gold-pieces,” and he ought to know. - -From my window I watch the beneficent downpour and think of the white, -feathery snowflakes that, in my Eastern home, always made Christmas day -seem to me so much more the orthodox festival than rain can possibly do; -yet it may have rained on that first Christmas day when Hope was born -into the world. It could not have been snowing. Nor could the rainstorm, -if there was one, have been more inviting than this one seems. The drops -chasing one another down the outside of the pane strike the glass with a -little musical tinkle that summons me abroad. It may not be prudent to -venture, but it is a good thing, at times, not to be wise enough to keep -indoors when it rains, and I find myself longing to go forth and take my -share of Nature’s beautiful Christmas gift. A happy thought, that. I am -quick to act upon it, and soon go tramping through the rain, eager to -learn how my friends of wood and cañon are enjoying their wet Christmas. - -The birds, I find, have fled to the thickest shelter they can find—the -redwoods in the cañon. They have no pockets, and no use even for aqueous -twenty-dollar-pieces; so they summon what philosophy they can to tide -them over the storm. Swinging down a slippery trail I catch an -overhanging bough, to save myself from a fall, and incidentally disturb -a feathered congregation that has taken refuge in this particular tree. -I shake the branch and the birds rush out. The rain is sheeting down -from the strip of sky just visible between the towering hills, and the -startled flock fly heavily, with many a chirping protest, to another -tree, where they perch and huddle again. - -A solitary brown towhee, sleek and trim, is pecking about in the soft -leaf-mold, with the air of mackintoshed and over-shoed comfort that this -bird always wears in a storm. The little creature has somehow learned -the secret of unfailing contentment. He reminds me, when I see him under -adverse circumstances, of that other object-lesson in cheerfulness, the -wee pimpernel, sunny-faced anagallis, growing so bravely about the -hills. In very early Springtime, when everything is green and lusty -after the winter rains, the pimpernel holds up its head for its share of -the good things of plant life everywhere abounding. But when the other -flowers and weeds have had their day; when even the burr-clover has -ripened and fallen, on the dry hilltops, in the bare meadows, where the -burnt earth shows great cracks made by the hot sun, the pimpernel still -blossoms cheerily, a picture of humble happiness. The brown towhee is -the plainest of our birds. He is not graceful; he cannot sing; he has -only the charm of brisk cheeriness, unfailing, gentle acceptance of -sunshine or cloud, as each comes, to recommend him to us, but he is -always a welcome sight about garden or hedge. - -I am interested to note the effects of the storm in the cañon. Here -flows a swift, deep stream, always cold and usually clear. Evidently the -wind has been at work, for across the creek, its spreading 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 broadax. Crawling 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 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 generations. - -I climb on, through the exposed roots of an immense redwood stump, a -relic of the forest primeval, driving a wood-rat scampering from his -haunts as I do so, and come out on a slope of soft leaf-mold. Here the -broad green leaves of the trillium are already above ground, the buds -beginning to show a small green spike. The Solomon’s seal is peeping up -to give Christmas greeting, but everything is wet. The trillium lies -prostrate, its leaves on the ground; blackberry, huckleberry and wild -currant are soaked and wind-blown; the redwoods droop and drip, with -here and there a branch broken by its own wet weight. Nevertheless, the -scene is not cheerless. There is so much of hope in the quiescent -greenery, and the fresh, wet scent of the earth is full of promise. - -It is surprising how much rain finds its way into the cañon. It might be -supposed that such a narrow cleft between two lines of high hills would -escape notice; but the water pours in from above; it sweeps through on -the searching wind; it flows down the wooded banks, from the hilltops, -and the little stream becomes a river. The rain whips and patters and -plays musically among the trees, and roars along with the creek until -everything is wetter than the proverbial drowned rat; but it does not -make mud-puddles; it does not bring the same dirt and discomfort in its -wake that it does where man makes his abode. The soft, fragrant, brown -mold receives it gladly; the mosses soak it up; the trees catch it in -their outstretched hands and turn it gently down upon their own thirsty -roots; the broad-leaved plants lie down before it and arise, refreshed, -when it has passed. It comes, the rain from heaven, as cleanser and -life-giver, and even I, soaked by its downpour, bewildered by the rush -and sweep of wind and storm, touched by a little mortal fear at the -strangeness of it all, am the better for such a wetting. Let but a -single sunbeam sift through the branches and the woods will smile like a -happy child after its bath. - -Scrambling up the side of a moss-grown rock I come face to face, on the -top, with a huge snail. To my great surprise I get a glimpse of a queer, -dog-like visage, with snub nose and bright eyes; then the creature pulls -its soft, shelly hood down over its head and I can see only its round, -resolute-looking shoulders. I poke it in the back, but it only hunches -itself together and rolls over; I cannot get another peep at its head. -That passing glimpse of the sturdy, bull-dog face, however, helps me -understand the persistence with which, once they are started, these -creatures travel forward. One, crossing my dooryard not long ago, found -his way barred by the house. Nothing daunted, he mounted the steps, -traversed the platform and started upward. He left a long, silvery trail -on the screen door and gained the wall. I watched him crawl past the -eaves to the roof, and I have no doubt but that in the course of time he -came down on the other side. Another of the same tribe I once found -halted at the edge of a stream a few feet wide. I pushed him out on a -chip and ferried him over, whereupon he started up the bank without a -backward glance at me who had so opportunely played Providence for him. - -The rain must have slackened somewhat up above. There is less beating -in, but the creek still roars turbulently. I have reached, in my -clambering progress, a place where the water tosses itself joyfully over -a great rock to fall into a deep, wide pool, so dark and so still that -even the tumult of the storm seems hardly to have reached it. It is dim -and green and quiet here; for the sunlight never penetrates to this -spot. The tops of the hills seem almost to meet, two hundred feet above -our heads, and the redwood growth is dense. The air is heavy with damp, -woodsy fragrance and the water is almost black. We talk of Mother Earth, -but we might with even more truth speak of Mother Water; for every -evidence, to-day, is that the first life appeared, not from the soil, -but nurtured at the broad breast of Mother Sea, even ere land had pushed -its way up from ocean’s depths. The green scum on the surface of still -pools; the slime molds covering moist bottoms, furnish us with some -indication of what this primordial vegetation was like, but by what long -process of evolution has come from that common ancestor the miniature -forests of the mosses on yonder rocks, the ferns clothing the banks, the -wild begonia here at my feet, the osiers yonder in the stream, the -towering redwoods themselves, who can tell? - -The story is our story. Only here and there, however, are we able to -read a line, a paragraph, never a full page of the wonderful tale, but -if it be not true that the same life which is in us is also, in kind, -throughout all Nature, then I see no reason why human beings should take -any interest in Nature, or feel any sympathy with her processes. But the -very possibility of our taking interest in the life of Nature, of our -feeling true sympathy with it, is evidence of our unity with the least -of her creatures. We may not wrest from Nature all her secrets, but we -cannot go to her in simplicity of spirit and come away empty-hearted. -That which baffles us but increases our love; for something of her -teaching lies hidden even in the mystery. The same Love that brought the -Christ child to earth is in the woods to-day, informing it with -beneficent purpose for our strengthening and teaching. - -A very wise man once told me that all life comes from protoplasm, and -that if we but knew the conditions we could make the protoplasm. Not a -bad idea, that; but if, some day, we should stumble upon the conditions, -make the protoplasm, set it agoing and exploit it in the newspapers, we -may be sure that there would come a day when the wonder would again be -beyond our comprehension. Life itself is a greater mystery than its -causation. If we could understand even such a comparatively small matter -as a bird’s way of looking at life, how much of marvel would clear -itself in our minds! - -We cannot understand even that, however. We can only, after all, love -and reverence the things of Nature as they seem to us good and helpful, -and come into the use through recognition of the beauty. They are facts, -as we, ourselves, are facts, and in reality we understand them about -equally well as we understand our own hearts and lives. A wee -humming-bird flew about my head yesterday, poised, on swift wings, -directly before my face, and I looked into his bright, fearless eyes. I -do not know what he thought of me; but neither do I know, really, what I -thought of him. Our lives touched, for the brief instant of that glance, -and through him came to me a thought of human love. I was better for the -encounter, and I do not think that he was worse. - -Here where the earth has slid away from the roots of a great redwood -stump I have found a long, creeping rootstock of the Solomon’s seal, -with no less than ten round, seal-like impressions left by past shoots. -At some time in its growth the plant encountered an obstacle in the -shape of a strong, outstretching arm of redwood root. The tender growth, -striking against this, from beneath, was turned backward, and downward, -until, feeling its way cautiously in the dark, it traveled around the -big root, and striking upward sent out a joyful shoot to greet the sun. -How long it must have taken the rootstock to do this we cannot surmise, -but I suppose that, could we watch these underground happenings, we -should find this sort of thing occurring frequently. We should not, -however, be likely to discover the real secret of the plant’s growth, -its branchlets toward the sun, its roots downward in search of water. We -only know that neither root nor flower has any choice but to turn toward -that which is its good. The necessity to growth, of obedience to the -laws of good, is everywhere the most inexorable of Nature’s teachings. -The plants, guided by instinct, make no mistake in following the good. -Higher in the scale, where a measure of reason is added to instinct, as -in the case of the birds, we find the possibility of error appearing, -and mistakes in judgment are not infrequent among these. Only in man, -however, do we find the power to retrieve mistakes, consciously and -voluntarily to retrace the wrong course and begin anew, and only with -man does the perilous power exist to choose between following the good -and turning from it. - -The rain has fairly ceased now. The birds have begun to stir among the -trees, hopping from branch to branch, shaking themselves and ruffling -out their wet feathers. They keep up a sort of indefinite chatter among -themselves the while, commenting, it may be, on the probable good that -will accrue from the generous Christmas wetting. - -Coming up the trail toward daylight, for it has grown dark in the cañon, -I meet a flock of quail, beautiful creatures, that survey me fearlessly -as I pass. I hope no Christmas pot hunter will find them and carry them -home, a trophy of his day’s sport. How any human being who has ever seen -a flock of quail in all their living, alert beauty, can take pleasure in -picking the poor little bones of the slaughtered birds is another of the -mysterious things of life. I came, some time ago, with a party of -trampers, to an open space amid the chaparral, on the crest of a chain -of hills. Suddenly the leader of our group motioned silence and stood, -with parted lips and smiling, delighted eyes, gazing at a flock of quail -quietly making their way through the grass, with glossy feathers -stirring in the breeze and crested heads held fearlessly high. - -“Did you ever see anything more beautiful?” whispered their discoverer; -but the Nimrod of the party wrung his weaponless hands and wailed: - -“What a shot! Oh, what a shot!” - -Verily, that first man went down to his house justified, rather than the -other. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES - - - 1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. - 2. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. - 3. 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text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)</div> -<div style='margin-top:2em;margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE CHRISTMAS WOODS ***</div> - -<div class='tnotes covernote'> - -<p class='c000'><b>Transcriber’s Note:</b></p> - -<p class='c000'>The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.</p> - -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_frontispiece.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic001'> -<p>“Coming up the Trail toward the Daylight.”</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class='titlepage'> - -<div> - <h1 class='c001'><span class='color_red'><span class='sc'>In The Christmas Woods</span></span><br /> <span class='small'><i>Being the introductory essay of a series on observations of nature through the year</i></span></h1> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c002'> - <div>BY</div> - <div class='c003'><span class='xlarge'>ADELINE KNAPP</span></div> - <div class='c003'><span class='small'>Author of “Upland Pastures,” Etc.</span></div> - <div class='c002'>With an illustration by William Keith</div> - <div class='c002'><span class='small'>DONE AT THE PRESS OF</span></div> - <div>THE STANLEY-TAYLOR COMPANY</div> - <div><span class='sc'>San Francisco, California</span></div> - <div>1899</div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div><span class='small'>Copyright, 1899, by</span></div> - <div><span class='small'><span class='sc'>The Stanley-Taylor Company</span>.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c005'>RAIN UP THE MOUNTAIN.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c006'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Along the serried slopes a white shape creeps,</div> - <div class='line'>Through oak-fringed cañon ways, and up the steeps,</div> - <div class='line'>A mystery of silent, shrouding deeps;</div> - <div class='line'>Like spirit touching earth while Nature sleeps.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It stirs beneath the laurels, stirs within</div> - <div class='line'>The redwood’s circling shade, and light and thin,</div> - <div class='line'>Where the brown towhee builds, and spiders spin,</div> - <div class='line'>Shuts the twist manzanita’s tangle in.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>With swaying tops and quivering leaves adart,</div> - <div class='line'>Held for a while within the mist’s white heart</div> - <div class='line'>Like shadowy travelers ready to depart—</div> - <div class='line'>Tall, wavering shapes of eucalyptus start.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>From far below, where level spreads the plain;</div> - <div class='line'>Traveling with jeweled feet the hastening grain,</div> - <div class='line'>Touching the slumbering hills to life again,</div> - <div class='line'>Marching along the summits, comes the rain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='section'> - -<div class='lg-container-l c004'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i>OF BEAUTY.</i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><i>We ought to observe that even the things that -follow after the things which are produced according -to nature contain something pleasing and attractive.... -The ears of corn bending down, -and the lion’s eyebrows, and the foam which flows -from the mouth of wild boars, and many other -things—tho they are far from being beautiful if a -man should examine them severally—still, because -they are consequent upon the things which are -formed by nature, help to adorn them, and they -please the mind; so that if a man should have a -feeling and deeper insight with respect to the things -which are produced in the universe, there is hardly -one of those which follow by way of consequence, -which will not seem to him to be in a manner disposed -so as to give pleasure.... And in an -old woman and an old man he will be able to see a -certain maturity and comeliness, and the attractive -beauty of young persons he will be able to look upon -with chaste eyes, who has become truly familiar with -nature and her works.</i></p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i>MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS.</i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span> - <h2 class='c005'>IN THE CHRISTMAS WOODS.</h2> -</div> - -<p class='drop-capa0_0_6 c008'>When Nature decides that her Christmas -gift to us shall be a rainstorm, she does -not send any niggardly shower. It is -raining in earnest; not the swift, drenching -downpour of earlier winter, that washes the -earth of its summer garb of dust, nor the small -rain upon the tender grass of Springtime, but a -steady, penetrating descent of water from a leaden-gray -sky, with the wind in the South. It is good -for all day. My farmer neighbor cocks a shrewd -eye skywards and says it is “raining twenty-dollar-gold-pieces,” -and he ought to know.</p> - -<p class='c007'>From my window I watch the beneficent downpour -and think of the white, feathery snowflakes -that, in my Eastern home, always made Christmas -day seem to me so much more the orthodox festival -than rain can possibly do; yet it may have rained on -that first Christmas day when Hope was born into -the world. It could not have been snowing. Nor -could the rainstorm, if there was one, have been -more inviting than this one seems. The drops -chasing one another down the outside of the pane -strike the glass with a little musical tinkle that -summons me abroad. It may not be prudent to -venture, but it is a good thing, at times, not to be -<span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>wise enough to keep indoors when it rains, and I -find myself longing to go forth and take my share -of Nature’s beautiful Christmas gift. A happy -thought, that. I am quick to act upon it, and soon -go tramping through the rain, eager to learn how -my friends of wood and cañon are enjoying their -wet Christmas.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The birds, I find, have fled to the thickest -shelter they can find—the redwoods in the cañon. -They have no pockets, and no use even for -aqueous twenty-dollar-pieces; so they summon -what philosophy they can to tide them over the -storm. Swinging down a slippery trail I catch an -overhanging bough, to save myself from a fall, and -incidentally disturb a feathered congregation that has -taken refuge in this particular tree. I shake the -branch and the birds rush out. The rain is sheeting -down from the strip of sky just visible between -the towering hills, and the startled flock fly heavily, -with many a chirping protest, to another tree, -where they perch and huddle again.</p> - -<p class='c007'>A solitary brown towhee, sleek and trim, is pecking -about in the soft leaf-mold, with the air of mackintoshed -and over-shoed comfort that this bird always -wears in a storm. The little creature has somehow -learned the secret of unfailing contentment. He -reminds me, when I see him under adverse circumstances, -of that other object-lesson in cheerfulness, -the wee pimpernel, sunny-faced anagallis, growing so -bravely about the hills. In very early Springtime, -when everything is green and lusty after the winter -<span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>rains, the pimpernel holds up its head for its share -of the good things of plant life everywhere abounding. -But when the other flowers and weeds have -had their day; when even the burr-clover has -ripened and fallen, on the dry hilltops, in the bare -meadows, where the burnt earth shows great cracks -made by the hot sun, the pimpernel still blossoms -cheerily, a picture of humble happiness. The -brown towhee is the plainest of our birds. He is -not graceful; he cannot sing; he has only the charm -of brisk cheeriness, unfailing, gentle acceptance of -sunshine or cloud, as each comes, to recommend -him to us, but he is always a welcome sight about -garden or hedge.</p> - -<p class='c007'>I am interested to note the effects of the storm -in the cañon. Here flows a swift, deep stream, -always cold and usually clear. Evidently the wind -has been at work, for across the creek, its spreading -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 broadax. Crawling -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 -<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>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 generations.</p> - -<p class='c007'>I climb on, through the exposed roots of an -immense redwood stump, a relic of the forest -primeval, driving a wood-rat scampering from his -haunts as I do so, and come out on a slope of soft -leaf-mold. Here the broad green leaves of the -trillium are already above ground, the buds beginning -to show a small green spike. The Solomon’s -seal is peeping up to give Christmas greeting, but -everything is wet. The trillium lies prostrate, its -leaves on the ground; blackberry, huckleberry and -wild currant are soaked and wind-blown; the redwoods -droop and drip, with here and there a -branch broken by its own wet weight. Nevertheless, -the scene is not cheerless. There is so much -of hope in the quiescent greenery, and the fresh, -wet scent of the earth is full of promise.</p> - -<p class='c007'>It is surprising how much rain finds its way into -the cañon. It might be supposed that such a narrow -cleft between two lines of high hills would -escape notice; but the water pours in from above; -it sweeps through on the searching wind; it flows -down the wooded banks, from the hilltops, and the -little stream becomes a river. The rain whips and -patters and plays musically among the trees, and -roars along with the creek until everything is wetter -<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>than the proverbial drowned rat; but it does not -make mud-puddles; it does not bring the same dirt -and discomfort in its wake that it does where man -makes his abode. The soft, fragrant, brown mold -receives it gladly; the mosses soak it up; the trees -catch it in their outstretched hands and turn it -gently down upon their own thirsty roots; the -broad-leaved plants lie down before it and arise, -refreshed, when it has passed. It comes, the rain -from heaven, as cleanser and life-giver, and even I, -soaked by its downpour, bewildered by the rush -and sweep of wind and storm, touched by a little -mortal fear at the strangeness of it all, am the better -for such a wetting. Let but a single sunbeam sift -through the branches and the woods will smile like -a happy child after its bath.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Scrambling up the side of a moss-grown rock -I come face to face, on the top, with a huge snail. -To my great surprise I get a glimpse of a queer, -dog-like visage, with snub nose and bright eyes; -then the creature pulls its soft, shelly hood down -over its head and I can see only its round, resolute-looking -shoulders. I poke it in the back, but it -only hunches itself together and rolls over; I cannot -get another peep at its head. That passing -glimpse of the sturdy, bull-dog face, however, helps -me understand the persistence with which, once -they are started, these creatures travel forward. -One, crossing my dooryard not long ago, found his -way barred by the house. Nothing daunted, he -mounted the steps, traversed the platform and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>started upward. He left a long, silvery trail on -the screen door and gained the wall. I watched -him crawl past the eaves to the roof, and I have no -doubt but that in the course of time he came down -on the other side. Another of the same tribe I -once found halted at the edge of a stream a few feet -wide. I pushed him out on a chip and ferried him -over, whereupon he started up the bank without a -backward glance at me who had so opportunely -played Providence for him.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The rain must have slackened somewhat up -above. There is less beating in, but the creek still -roars turbulently. I have reached, in my clambering -progress, a place where the water tosses itself -joyfully over a great rock to fall into a deep, wide -pool, so dark and so still that even the tumult of -the storm seems hardly to have reached it. It is -dim and green and quiet here; for the sunlight -never penetrates to this spot. The tops of the hills -seem almost to meet, two hundred feet above our -heads, and the redwood growth is dense. The air -is heavy with damp, woodsy fragrance and the -water is almost black. We talk of Mother Earth, -but we might with even more truth speak of Mother -Water; for every evidence, to-day, is that the first -life appeared, not from the soil, but nurtured at the -broad breast of Mother Sea, even ere land had -pushed its way up from ocean’s depths. The green -scum on the surface of still pools; the slime molds -covering moist bottoms, furnish us with some -indication of what this primordial vegetation was -<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>like, but by what long process of evolution has -come from that common ancestor the miniature -forests of the mosses on yonder rocks, the ferns -clothing the banks, the wild begonia here at my -feet, the osiers yonder in the stream, the towering -redwoods themselves, who can tell?</p> - -<p class='c007'>The story is our story. Only here and there, -however, are we able to read a line, a paragraph, -never a full page of the wonderful tale, but if it be -not true that the same life which is in us is also, in -kind, throughout all Nature, then I see no reason -why human beings should take any interest in -Nature, or feel any sympathy with her processes. -But the very possibility of our taking interest in -the life of Nature, of our feeling true sympathy with -it, is evidence of our unity with the least of her -creatures. We may not wrest from Nature all her -secrets, but we cannot go to her in simplicity of -spirit and come away empty-hearted. That which -baffles us but increases our love; for something of -her teaching lies hidden even in the mystery. The -same Love that brought the Christ child to earth is -in the woods to-day, informing it with beneficent -purpose for our strengthening and teaching.</p> - -<p class='c007'>A very wise man once told me that all life -comes from protoplasm, and that if we but knew -the conditions we could make the protoplasm. Not -a bad idea, that; but if, some day, we should -stumble upon the conditions, make the protoplasm, -set it agoing and exploit it in the newspapers, we -may be sure that there would come a day when the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>wonder would again be beyond our comprehension. -Life itself is a greater mystery than its causation. -If we could understand even such a comparatively -small matter as a bird’s way of looking at life, how -much of marvel would clear itself in our minds!</p> - -<p class='c007'>We cannot understand even that, however. -We can only, after all, love and reverence the -things of Nature as they seem to us good and helpful, -and come into the use through recognition of -the beauty. They are facts, as we, ourselves, are -facts, and in reality we understand them about -equally well as we understand our own hearts and -lives. A wee humming-bird flew about my head -yesterday, poised, on swift wings, directly before -my face, and I looked into his bright, fearless eyes. -I do not know what he thought of me; but neither -do I know, really, what I thought of him. Our -lives touched, for the brief instant of that glance, -and through him came to me a thought of human -love. I was better for the encounter, and I do not -think that he was worse.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Here where the earth has slid away from the -roots of a great redwood stump I have found a long, -creeping rootstock of the Solomon’s seal, with no -less than ten round, seal-like impressions left by -past shoots. At some time in its growth the plant -encountered an obstacle in the shape of a strong, -outstretching arm of redwood root. The tender -growth, striking against this, from beneath, was -turned backward, and downward, until, feeling its -way cautiously in the dark, it traveled around the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>big root, and striking upward sent out a joyful -shoot to greet the sun. How long it must have -taken the rootstock to do this we cannot surmise, -but I suppose that, could we watch these underground -happenings, we should find this sort of -thing occurring frequently. We should not, however, -be likely to discover the real secret of the plant’s -growth, its branchlets toward the sun, its roots -downward in search of water. We only know -that neither root nor flower has any choice but to -turn toward that which is its good. The necessity -to growth, of obedience to the laws of good, is -everywhere the most inexorable of Nature’s teachings. -The plants, guided by instinct, make no -mistake in following the good. Higher in the -scale, where a measure of reason is added to instinct, -as in the case of the birds, we find the -possibility of error appearing, and mistakes in -judgment are not infrequent among these. Only in -man, however, do we find the power to retrieve -mistakes, consciously and voluntarily to retrace -the wrong course and begin anew, and only with -man does the perilous power exist to choose -between following the good and turning from it.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The rain has fairly ceased now. The birds -have begun to stir among the trees, hopping from -branch to branch, shaking themselves and ruffling -out their wet feathers. They keep up a sort of -indefinite chatter among themselves the while, -commenting, it may be, on the probable good that -will accrue from the generous Christmas wetting.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>Coming up the trail toward daylight, for it has -grown dark in the cañon, I meet a flock of quail, -beautiful creatures, that survey me fearlessly as I -pass. I hope no Christmas pot hunter will find -them and carry them home, a trophy of his day’s -sport. How any human being who has ever seen -a flock of quail in all their living, alert beauty, can -take pleasure in picking the poor little bones -of the slaughtered birds is another of the mysterious -things of life. I came, some time ago, with a party -of trampers, to an open space amid the chaparral, -on the crest of a chain of hills. Suddenly the -leader of our group motioned silence and stood, -with parted lips and smiling, delighted eyes, gazing -at a flock of quail quietly making their way through -the grass, with glossy feathers stirring in the breeze -and crested heads held fearlessly high.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“Did you ever see anything more beautiful?” -whispered their discoverer; but the Nimrod of the -party wrung his weaponless hands and wailed:</p> - -<p class='c007'>“What a shot! 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