Red and white firs are found, the incense cedar, the Douglas spruce, the big cone spruce, and a number of deciduous trees, mainly oaks of several varieties, with sycamore along the lower creeks, and the alder tree, strikingly like the alder bush of our eastern streams and pastures, but of Gargantuan proportions, grown out of all recognition.

Gloria, looking on ahead, saw only rock-bound cañon walls on either hand and a tangle of alder-bushes across the creek.

It is in vain to await him under our morning sycamore, nor under the great maples shall we find him walking, nor amid the alder thickets discover him, nor yet in the little ravine beneath the pines.

Bright sunshine pierced the tossing alder branches, and the rapid close by sparkled between belts of moving shade.

" Kit pondered as he leaned against the alder trunk.

Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cockermouth, Cumberland, where the Derwent, Fairest of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams.

I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear,they sang to my eye.

One of their first expeditions, however, had been straight to the bay from the farm-housea scramble through wild, long-deserted pastures, an amazingly thick young alder grove, and finally out on the stony, salty water's edge.

I wish I were a tiny browny bird from out the south, Settled among the alder-holts, and twittering by the stream; I would put my tiny tail down, and put up my tiny mouth, And sing my tiny life away in one melodious dream.

But is it an error for alder-liever?

And you seemed to me the same little girl I kissed in the alder-path, I kissed the little girl's lips, and alas!

Harry and Cecile came out, flourishing alder poles from which lines and hooks dangled.

And yetthe pines sing overhead, The robins by the alder-pool, The bees about the garden-bed, The children dancing home from school.

Gone to holt in this alder root!"

Very luckily it didn't occur to the boy to splash water on his facefor there were still more of these horrors under the alder rootsand instead he passed back by the pond and went into the garden with the intention of calling assistance.

"You have kind eyes," and was gone down through the graceful alder saplings.

The overhanging rushes and alder-sprays, weary of winter's sameness, have made for themselves playthings,each dangling a crystal knob of ice, which sways gently in the water and gleams ruddy in the sunlight.

He saw Mr. Carrington stoop down by the side of the pool, with his hand against the old alder stem, and peer into the water, but of course he could not appreciate the surprise and pleasure with which Mr. Carrington beheld the big unfamiliar-looking blobs and threads of the algal scum at the bottom.

The stomach was filled with short alder sticks, not much chewed, and one small bird feather.

"No; but what's as good: here on this alder stump, not an hour old.

Wilbur would have lingered here where they could still observe through the lower trees the group about the campfire, but Dave Cowan seemed to have had enough of gypsies for the moment, and sauntered on up the ridge, across an alder swale and out on a parklike space to rest against a fence that bounded a pasture belonging to the Whipple New Place.

At the time when the seat of government was first moved there, only a path, leading through an alder swamp on the line of the present Pennsylvania Avenue, was the way of communication between the president's house and the capitol.

Than last year's alder-tufts in June Browner, yet lustrous as a moon Her eyes glowed on you, and her hair With such an air as princes wear She trimmed black-braided in a crown.

The road runs at first along a low cliff foot, with an ugly Mangrove swamp, looking just like an alder-bed at home, between you and the sea; a swamp which it would be worth while to drain by a steam-pump, and then plant with coconuts or bamboos; for its miasma makes the southern corner of Port of Spain utterly pestilential.

His last clear thought had been an intense anxiety about his snow-shoes as they sailed away, two liberated kites, but as he went on falling, clutching at the airfallingand felt the alder twigs snap under his hands, he said to himself, "This is death," but calmly, as if it were a small matter compared to losing one's snow-shoes.