Perhaps he would wonder still more if he knew that, although they pass to and fro with each year’s migration, Bobolink and Reed Bird have never met. Couldn’t the reader explain something of this to old Rough-leg?
“The good are better made by ill,
As odors crushed are sweeter still.”
—Rogers.
A DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST
By Evelyn Raymond
CHAPTER VII
A Woodland Menagerie
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
Brought up in the forests of northern Maine, and seeing few persons excepting her uncle and Angelique, the Indian housekeeper, Margot Romeyn knows little of life beyond the deep hemlocks. Naturally observant, she is encouraged in her out-of-door studies by her uncle, at one time a college professor. Through her woodland instincts, she and her uncle are enabled to save the life of Adrian Wadislaw, a youth who, lost and almost overcome with hunger, has been wandering in the neighboring forest. To Margot the new friend is a welcome addition to her small circle of acquaintances, and after his rapid recovery she takes great delight in showing him the many wonders of the forest about her home.