"I'm thinking," said Wilbur, "that I'll never give them the chance to talk like that about me!"

"From what I heard," said the doctor, "I don't believe you will."

"And from what I see," said the doctor's wife gently, as the two rose and bade the "patient" good-night, "I know we shall all be glad that you have come to us here in the forest."


WHAT TREE-PLANTING WILL DO.
Pine plantation fifty years old showing growth of timber. Trunks, however, should not show so many superfluous low branches.
Photograph by U. S. Forest Service.