. The American forest : or, Uncle Philip's conversations with the children about the trees of America . think itquite likely that when you are as old as I am,you will know a great deal more about anoak than I or any other man can tell younow. Perhaps some of you may find outsomething new and exceedingly useful ; butto do this, you must learn what other men havediscovered, while you are young, and neverpass any thing by as not worth examining,however humble or useless it may bark of an oak seems to be good for no-thing ; but you see that without it your shoeswould not last half so lo
. The American forest : or, Uncle Philip's conversations with the children about the trees of America . think itquite likely that when you are as old as I am,you will know a great deal more about anoak than I or any other man can tell younow. Perhaps some of you may find outsomething new and exceedingly useful ; butto do this, you must learn what other men havediscovered, while you are young, and neverpass any thing by as not worth examining,however humble or useless it may bark of an oak seems to be good for no-thing ; but you see that without it your shoeswould not last half so long, or keep out thewater as well as they do ; the branch of anoak you would pass by as worthless ; yet fromit is made one of the ingredients of gunpow- 36 CONVERSATIONS ON THE dev, one of the most powerful substances inthe world. Remember this, boys, and try tolearn all the uses and properties of all sortsof things, and who knows but that you maymake yourselves famous, or, which is betterFtill, useful, one of these days by some very im-portant discovery. Good night, boys. Good night, Uncle The Black Walnut. TREES OF AMERICA. 30 CONVERSATION II. Uncle Philip and the Children talk aboutNuts and Hickories. How do you do, boys ? Would you liketo walk into the woods with me to-day, andtalk of the trees for a while ? Yes, if you please, Uncle Philip. Butbefore we go, there is one thing we want toask you about: there is another use for oak-trees, and all other trees, that you did not sayany thing about; is there not. Uncle Phihp ?For the dear little birds to make their nestsin. << Why, certainly, boys, the birds do maketheir houses among the branches of trees ; Ithought it not worth while to mention thatto you, partly because I supposed that youknew it, and partly because I intended only totell you what trees were good for, to men : butI am glad you have mentioned it now, since 40 CONVERSATIONS ON THE it shows that you have been thinking of whatwe were talking about, an
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