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brown trunk which makes a magnificent background for their level benches of silvery spray, Among his other friends living
far below in his shadow are the Ceanothus? the rose the lupine violet the broad shouldered breckan. And little mosses lichens
also - humblest children of the kingdom, meet King Sequoia dwell with him they paint his grand column with their green gold
as big congregations of social flowers color the flutings of a hillside I remember that some of your party remarked the silence
of our woods the absence of birds. Well, ere you were half way down the hill a gush of the richest forest song that ever tingled
human soul came 2 in grand confidence from the whole grove choir of trees, birds, flies. When you went away I walked to
the top of the ridge commanding? a view of the arterial grooves of the Fresnoe? , to Ca illegible , when I returned to the
grove near S illegible I was welcomed by five or six birds, The magnificent pileated woodpecker eighteen inches in length
came right up to me turned round round as if anxious that I should know all his gestures notes. observe the color polish of
every feather. A little brown specky titmouse was building a house near the ground beneath a flake of Sequoia bark she allowed
one to remain within five feet of her building without ceasing her work only pausing an instant now then to look at me. Alas
a very shy slim? ash colored bird about the size of the robin shewed himself 3