A TREE'S SOLILOQUY

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 12, 21 March 1907, Page 38

A TREE'S SOLILOQUY

I'm a funny proposition, from a human point of view, am I not ? I wear clothing all the summer when if is warm, and go in my bare limbs all the winter in'the worst--and coldest weather. The harder my heart, the better I am considered. Though not specially fond of jewellery, I get a new~ ring each year, which I carry in my trunk. It is perhaps remarkable that, though never travelling, I have a trunk, and that my trunk is never opened until after my death. My bark never disturbs the neighbors at night, and does not in the least frighten the squirrels that, play about and upon me. The best tree in the world is found to be slabs&ded and club-footed upon taking it to a sawmill.. A wooden leg is necessary to my good health and standing in the community. Wet fee.t really do me good. My head is. perfectly familiar with the higher bran- • ches. . - While I myself am temperate, •" my • . leaves - get blown off fn various ways every autumn. This leads, I have always noted, to their fall and speedy decay. Though I expect to leave in the spring/ in all pro- - bability you w*ill see me here next summer.