"It is so big and so high.

Have you no place where you eat and rest and sleep ?" "Except in the rainy season, I camp all over the place--at any spot where I may have been shooting or collecting." "Collecting ?" queried Nellie.
"Yes; with the herbarium, you know." "Yes," said Nellie dubiously.

"But you told me once--the first time we ever talked together," she added, looking in his eyes--"something about your keeping your things like a squirrel in a tree.

Could we not go there?
Is there not room for us to sit and talk without being brow-beaten and looked down upon by these supercilious trees ?" "It's too far away," said Low truthfully, but with a somewhat pronounced emphasis, "much too far for you just now; and it lies on another trail that enters the wood beyond.

But come, I will show you a spring known only to myself, the wood ducks, and the squirrels.