. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. ere a great tree, like a forestlord, may be seen, to remind one of the kingly hunting days. Leaving Mansfield for Sherwood Forest, strange houses by thewayside, excavated in limestone and recalling the supposed age ofthe cave-dwellers, as in an unexpected picture, much excited the boyscuriosity. Sherwood Forest, or as much of it as remains, is twenty-five mileslong and about eight broad. The new growth of trees is very fine;but it is the remains of thegrand old oaks that attract thetourist and summer wood has a grou
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. ere a great tree, like a forestlord, may be seen, to remind one of the kingly hunting days. Leaving Mansfield for Sherwood Forest, strange houses by thewayside, excavated in limestone and recalling the supposed age ofthe cave-dwellers, as in an unexpected picture, much excited the boyscuriosity. Sherwood Forest, or as much of it as remains, is twenty-five mileslong and about eight broad. The new growth of trees is very fine;but it is the remains of thegrand old oaks that attract thetourist and summer wood has a ground-workof exhaustless ferns, the deli-ate birches flutter in the warmwinds, their peculiar shade con- rasting with the greenery around hem. Here and there oaks of lifferent ages and altitudes rise jray, gnarled, and almost leafless, — oaks on which a thousand empests have beaten, and around .hich ten thousand storms have lown. In Henry time ot only Nottingham, but thehole of England, was coveredith oaks. Tommy Toby was very ur-nt to visit some of the old. SHAMBLE OAK. storic oaks of Sherwood, especially such as are associated with laint stories and tragic histories. A. VACATIONS IN Procuring a guide, the Class went firsl to see Shamble (>ak. Thin! d1 it: in the main circuit it is thirty-four feet! It is called Shamble (>.ik because a butcher onceused its hollow trunk to COM i eal stolen sheep. I le washung on an ak. The guide next took the boys to a dreamy old placecalled Welbeck Park, to selthe Greendale Oak, supposedto be seven hundred years old]and which lias a circumferenceof more than thirty-five feet I It looks as though it hacthe rheumatism, said Tommj•• With all of its crutches aii(i anes it will not live manyears longer. Do you thinkwill? I think it likely to onlive all of us, >aid the guidi More than one hundred an
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