. Conservation. Forests and forestry. 1908 CHRISTMAS IN SIERRA NORTH 169 denly one of our Sierra rainstorms swept down on us, which seemed the best joke of all. In the midst of it the horses were brought out of the sheds, the rangers gathered up the babies, tucked them under their "slickers," and mounted in hot haste; the wives and elder children spring to saddle. Everyone laughed and shouted to- gether while the rain poured, and off they went, up the ridges, down the trails, across the creeks in the pitchy darkness! Some had to go a mile and some four or five miles in wind and rain,
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. 1908 CHRISTMAS IN SIERRA NORTH 169 denly one of our Sierra rainstorms swept down on us, which seemed the best joke of all. In the midst of it the horses were brought out of the sheds, the rangers gathered up the babies, tucked them under their "slickers," and mounted in hot haste; the wives and elder children spring to saddle. Everyone laughed and shouted to- gether while the rain poured, and off they went, up the ridges, down the trails, across the creeks in the pitchy darkness! Some had to go a mile and some four or five miles in wind and rain, but it was the most amusing event of the season. As I think it over and consider the possibilities of the rangers' holiday season I am afraid that to write it all down will sound foolish. But let it at least be said that in the course of time we ought to be able to develop many customs and usages all our own, and to keep alive many of the better sort of the old American traditions of moun- tain hospitality. Besides and beyond this I think it likely that the fellowship will widen, taking in, to some extent, the other forests and offices and de- partments ; that by and by the Gov- ernment scaler on Sale 12-1-08 in Pike's Peak will be sending home- made Christmas cards to other scalers away up in the Siskiyous or the Olympics; that all the inspectors will be writing Christmas letters to the rangers they have camped with; that supervisors from Tongass to Taos will be gathering red apples in October and cutting great Yule logs of oak in No- vember, and picking autumn berries and bringing in Christmas trees, and killing well-fatted holiday birds, and sitting at the heads of long and most festive tables where at least half the toasts will have to do with the Forest Service and its leaders. Does any man or woman desire to know the price of the forest fellow- ship? Coming into it, one must learn to give and to take—"From each to all, from all to ; When mind and body ar
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