"In the institution we are describing there is a complete and well-furnished kitchen, a bathroom, a courtyard with sand for digging, with pebbles and pine-cones, moss, shells and straw, etc., a garden, and a series of rooms and halls suitably furnished and arranged for games, occupations, handwork and instruction.

First comes a kitchen and next a bathroom, then an out-of-doors playground with abundant material for gaining ideas through actionsand, pebbles, pine-cones, moss, shells and straw.

The Bohemian, says Mr. Conway, "thinks he can make himself shot-proof for twenty-four hours by finding on St. John's Day pine-cones on the top of a tree, taking them home, and eating a single kernel on each day that he wishes to be invulnerable."

The khaki trousers gathered into the boot-tops, the soft flannel shirt, were the brown of the tree trunks; skin of hands and face and muscular throat were the bronze of ripe pine-cones and burnished pine-needles.

Ever my pine-cone heart, as the aspen trembling and shy, Has yearned for the pine-like shape and the stature high Of my friend. Not at the lowest price would my friend to purchase me care; Yet I, a whole world to win, would not sell one hair Of my friend.

The shape of the nest, like a pine-cone, its color and texture, and the lining, which showed through, made him smile.

The little creature who had been riding on his back, sat down upon a knoll on the outskirts of the wood and picked a pine-cone in pieces, that he might get at the seeds.

"I was telling Astor only last night that if we had much more of that sort I'd have to keep him on sawdust puddings and pine-cone soup.

" [Illustration: PINE-CONE (Pinus Sylvestris.)]

And then, when he and his companions wanted venison, it was strange to go forth into the forest in the dark, two of them bearing a great iron pot slung upon a long rod, and heaped with blazing pine-cones.

In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine-cones laythe rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And cuddled-up skeleton; And scores of such.

He stood in the doorway with hair which looked as if it had been dressed with a pine-cone, inattentive grey eyes, hazy with far-away musings, an emphatic nose and disheveled attire that bore signs of tramps in woods and swamps.

In the meantime, he threw on a log and some pine-cones, and went to fetch an additional lamp.

It derives its scientific name from its shape, which, as I have said, resembles a pine-cone.