rose dark and dome-like, their shadows, black and irregular, staining
the ground beneath them.

GERALDINE BONNER,
in _The Pioneer._



JULY 23.


With great discomfort and considerable difficulty they threaded this
miniature forest, starting all sorts of wild things as they went on.
Cotton-tail rabbits fled before them. Gophers stuck their heads out of
the ground, and viewed them with jewel-like eyes, then noiselessly
retreated to their underground preserves. Large gray ground squirrels
sat up on their haunches, with bushy tails curled gracefully around
them and wee forepaws dropped downward as if in mimic courtesy, but
scampered off at their approach. Flocks of birds arose from their
feeding grounds, and lizards rustled through the dead leaves.

FLORA HAINES LOUGHEAD,
in _The Abandoned Claim._



JULY 24.


THE SENTINEL TREE.