I'll have a pair of pipers, shepherds both, This from Acharnæ, from Lycopè that; And Tityrus shall be near me and shall sing How the swain Daphnis loved the stranger-maid; And how he ranged the fells, and how the oaks (Such oaks as Himera's banks are green withal)

And, some go so far as to say that the oak is the "ultimate cause" of the acornthat the idea of the oak caused the acorn to be at all.

Solid oak's the only walking for a man.

To our rude forefathers, who dwelt in the gloomy depths of the primaeval forest, it might well seem that the riven and blackened oaks must indeed be favourites of the sky-god, who so often descended on them from the murky cloud in a flash of lightning and a crash of thunder.

"Then the oak is such a blessing," he exclaimed with peculiar fervour, clasping his hands, and repeating often"the oak is such a blessing!"

Little red squirrels danced and clattered above their heads, and every oak was a choir with a hundred tiny voices piping from the shadow of its foliage.

Our oak isn't good quality, and maple is such an interminably slow grower.

"When I went into the next room, the housekeeper's roomvery comfortable, yak (oak) all roundthere was a fine fire blazin' away, wi' coal, and peat, and wood, all in a low together, and tea on the table, and hot cake, and smokin' meat; and there was Mrs. Wyvern, fat, jolly, and talkin' away, more in an hour than my aunt would in a year.

Thus oaks and squirrels are the result of very many laws, inasmuch as organisms are dependent not only on biological, but also on physical, chemical, and mathematical laws.

Of the round-headed trees, that extend their branches more or less at wide angles from their trunk, the Oak is the most conspicuous and the most celebrated.

Steady, resourceful, dumb Gabriel Oak and clever, fencing Sergeant Troy are delightful foils to each other, and are every inch human.

We are become calm, slow, strong; so we measure rectitudes and regard essentials, my oak and I. I would be a hard person to dislodge or uproot from this spot of earth.

A helmless wreck upon the tide An earthquake's ruin wrapped in gloom A gnarled oak blasted in its pride Are feeble emblems of my doom.

" And to give one more illustration: "The greatest oaks have been little acorns.

" Oaks was undoubtedly a regular Briton, just the sort of fellow to turn the fortunes of a losing game.

[Footnote 18: In this parable the oak is the state, the boughs its best men, the fire and the alien house destruction and servitude.]

The oak is but a foliated atmospheric crystal deposited from the aërial ocean that holds the future vegetable world in solution.

The English oak is not a handsome tree, being short and sturdy, with a round, thick mass of foliage, lying all within its own bounds.

"Our American oaks," said Miss Harson, "are very handsome in autumn because of their brilliant foliage; the scarlet oak, which turns to a deep crimson and keeps its leaves longer than any of the other forest trees, is the most showy of the species.

The Poet's Oak, by Allan Cunningham, is a beautiful finish to the volume, which is altogether equal to any of its compeers.

The white oak is the monarch of the forest, as it lives very long and is larger and stronger than the majority of its associates.

Oak is a lasting wood.

White oak ain't bass, is it?

[Illustration: THE OAK] "The white oak is the handsomest species, and takes its name from the very light color of the bark on the trunk, by which it is easily known.

Hence, while the Oak is the symbol of hospitality and of the arts to which it has given its aid, the Palm symbolizes the voluptuousness of a tropical clime and the indolence of its inhabitants.