. The American forest : or, Uncle Philip's conversations with the children about the trees of America . is family a goodUving. One day a gold mine was discoveredin his ground; and he began to dig for theprecious metal, rejoicing in the hope of abun-dant riches. But it lay very deep, and hehad to hire men to help him; and then hiswife and children wanted food and clothes;he had no money, and his farm, you know,brought him nothing while he was sold his horse, then his oxen, then hiscow and pigs ; and when they were gone, heran in debt. At last he found some gold, butit was in the ore,
. The American forest : or, Uncle Philip's conversations with the children about the trees of America . is family a goodUving. One day a gold mine was discoveredin his ground; and he began to dig for theprecious metal, rejoicing in the hope of abun-dant riches. But it lay very deep, and hehad to hire men to help him; and then hiswife and children wanted food and clothes;he had no money, and his farm, you know,brought him nothing while he was sold his horse, then his oxen, then hiscow and pigs ; and when they were gone, heran in debt. At last he found some gold, butit was in the ore, and had to be pounded, andwashed, and melted, and all this was expen-sive. At the end of the year, he had gotseveral pounds, but it all went to pay his horse and cattle, his crops and his goldwere all gone ; and he had been working hardall this time only to find himself poorer thanwhen he began. He had bought wisdom,however. He gave up his digging and wentto work again on his farm ; but it was notuntil after several years of hard labour thathe recovered what he liad lost by his The White Poplar. CONVERSATION VI. Uncle Philip and his Young Friends talkabout Poplars^ and Aspens, and Persim-Tnons, and Wild-cherries, and the Cabbage-tree, and Chestnuts,and Chincapins. UnclePhilip, among other things, describes thegreat Chestnut on Mount Etna, called theChestnut of the Hundred Horses. I THINK I have two or three trees to tellyou about to day, my children, that you willbe glad to make acquaintance with ; partlybecause of their utility, and still more on ac-count of their fruit, which I dare say youhave eaten many a time. I mean the wildcherries. Oh yes, Uncle Philip, they seem like oldfriends. But I did not know that there weremore than one kind of wild cherries. There are three, but there is only one ofthem that you are likely to be acquaintedwith, for the other two are found only in remoten2 150 CONVERSATIONS ON THE parts of the country. The wild cherry-tree,t
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