It _must_ be lonesome.

Some folks says it don't feel, but I think it does.

Everything seems to think and feel.

See it nodding its head to them other trees in the woods?
and a-wantin' to shake hands! But it can't move.

I think that tree must a growed in the night." "Why, Shocky ?" "'Cause it's so crooked," and Shocky laughed at his own conceit; "must a growed when they was no light so as it could see how to grow." And then they walked on in silence a minute.