Eleventh pupil.
Of all man's works of art a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
—H.W. Beecher.
Twelfth pupil.
In an agricultural country the preservation or destruction of forests must determine the decision of Hamlet's alternative: "to be or not to be." An animal flayed or a tree stripped of its bark does not perish more surely than a land deprived of the trees.
—Felix L. Oswald.
Thirteenth pupil.
By their fruit ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
8. DECLAMATION.