2 
tor theP (thiatiot of the storm withii  the narrow Oontfiie oft his Inaf4
eaau 
fiqe0, *Ate frm Vin, O*L. f O and4 hLuatr. The eurod oak leavcs not only
se 
an cover, bt for some curig reason, are relished as food by the        se.

Thee, oak wind,'ls are, of cors, dis.4 trees. Withat dise se, fw 
oaks would4 breakt ott, amA heacie few grousie would have down tops to hide
in. 
Dieeased oaks Ylso pvevide aother aplarently delectable gaes foods oak 
£lls  A  11  s ~  ieaod  rowth of new twij, s which have been stnb

gall-waesp -ihilo temAor and succulent. LLi October my grouse are often stuffed.

with oak r4s 
;ach year the wild bes load up o   of rV hollow oca1 with cowibs, a 
eah year tram-passing honny-hunterfs lv.rvoat the honny before I dc.This
toe 
p::.rtly ba-u  the are more skillful thaa I am in   lining up" the bee
troe, 
an  partly         they use iont. and heace are able to wor before the bos

bcm)dozart in fal AL ,t for hea- rt-rots,, there would )a no hollow oak#o

furitsh wild 'bees with oiaken hires. 
DarixW hg   years of the cyl, there is a pl:-,ge of rabbits in mywood*. 
They eat the bar'k z-Lu twigs off of alraost every kin of tree or  tsh I
nm 
trigto           g   aa4 iguore almost ev.n kind I would like to have less
of. 
(Ahen the rabbit hunter piLants himself a graw. of pinesv or na orohex, the

rabbit smhw coss to be a gri      anaia1. sod bewem  a poest Inste-4>

The rabbit, doesite his omenvorous a-, *tit., is an epiAcure in some rewpecto,

He alw~a prefers a hand- lanted pine,       , apple, or who. to a wild one.
He 
also iagi i tS that certain sal.ds be  2eoonditioned befor, he deij,,b  
to eat them. 
Thus he (3_un  red doyoduntil It in att eked by oyster-shell scaile, after

which the bark bsoomes a 4.1  na, to b     erly devoured by all the  rabbits
in