| Show Writers Writer's Fine Tribute to Forest Patriarch I watched somo some time ago the tIle cut- cut Ing down clown a of nn an oak It was a huge tree tre-e an lD old patriarch among the trees In the tile neighborhood the 1 kind end and size of ot a n tree that Is regarded with n fl sort of attachment by friends and strangers In the lives Il of at those along the road It as ns a n landmark It wore ore Its rusty robes with nn fin air airOr of Or majesty It possessed n U distinguished helm distin on of at n age mil to look 1001 at ut It was to he hu aware l of something ancient The rho stepped with moccasin feet feel the paths when It was In Infancy and Us its last years saw the automobile airplane the magic things of ot n a modern world It II went through much In the lease of at lIre life It weathered everything e as asan asan n an oak ok should do but hut it had bad to surrender sur ear render before the assault of or a 8 very sm small but numerous enemy the enemy the leopard leopard leop leop- ard moth It fou fought ht as ns a n giant tights fights bravely It lost courageously and ann g gamely mely as n fi man man loses when overwhelmed over over- whelmed with ith superior numbers It battled to the end I It seems a ruthl ruthless ss act net to cut down lo downa n a tree It is the taking of life lite Itself Such a n tree enters enters the very ery lives jIves of or those who dwell In its shadows and und andU It U Is a part of ot their histories And UtI the more we know of ot such trees the themore themore themore more are arc e e convinced they have a R soul a n personality personality Edwin C. C Hobson Hob Hob- son In the Boston Roston Globe |
