Forest leaves . on a plainmonument of brown stone, where I read the names of the villagers whofell in battle during the Franco-Prussian war, and tried to picture in mymind the appearance of the peasant lads who marched away to fight forFatherland and Kaiser—and the grief in the humble homes when the sadnews came. Turning from the monument I was attracted by the church- 10 FOREST LEAVES like tones of an organ, the music coming from a monastic-looking build-ing or school close by. Through an open window 1 could see a brown-robed priest at the keyboard. I thought I had never heard a sweetertoned
Forest leaves . on a plainmonument of brown stone, where I read the names of the villagers whofell in battle during the Franco-Prussian war, and tried to picture in mymind the appearance of the peasant lads who marched away to fight forFatherland and Kaiser—and the grief in the humble homes when the sadnews came. Turning from the monument I was attracted by the church- 10 FOREST LEAVES like tones of an organ, the music coming from a monastic-looking build-ing or school close by. Through an open window 1 could see a brown-robed priest at the keyboard. I thought I had never heard a sweetertoned organ, or a better player. I could have sat there contentedly a longtime—but, the dinner and the forstmeister were waiting. Another attraction afforded the hotel guests by the forests is a sightof the deer and other game which abound there, although the hunting andfishing privileges are reserved for the pleasure of a privileged few—theking, grand duke, or noble who owns the property. Some large tracts are. Forest of Silver Fir, Southeastern France. maintained and known as royal hunting forests, where the pleasures oithe chase, the pursuit of the stag or wild boar, are deemed ^i more im-portance than the revenue which the timber might bring. In fact, thefirst attempts at forest preservation and -planting in Europe were due tothe desire of the king to provide good hunting instead of a timber ago, in England, agricultural land- were reforested to enlarge FOREST LEAVES II
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