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The age of stone in Denmark coincided with the period of the first vegetation, or that of the Scotch fir, and in part at least with the second vegetation, or that of the oak. But a considerable portion of the oak epoch coincided with "the age of bronze," for swords and shields of that metal, now in the Museum of Copenhagen, have been taken out of peat in which oaks abound.
The age at which the oak should be felled for ship-timber, &c., depends on many circumstances, and is fixed by different authorities at from eighty to a hundred and fifty years. Oaks are said to be more liable than other trees to be struck by lightning. Oak-coppices or "little woods" are cut over at from twelve to thirty years old. The bark is valuable as well as the wood.
Only the walnuts and the great oaks, some of them pollards of a thousand years of age, remained stark and stern in their winter dress. Alan was in a reflective mood and involuntarily began to wonder how many of his forefathers had stood in that same spot upon such April mornings and looked out upon those identical trees wakening in the breath of spring.
Larkin, of the Lodge, Esq., master of Five Oaks, was safely locked into the box, under his long arm, and the attorney vanished, bowing very much, and concealing his elation under a solemn sort of nonchalance. The note, which by this time the vicar had received, though short, was, on the whole, tremendous. It said:
At a greater distance from the buildings were detached oaks and elms and chestnuts, growing singly, which had attained great size. The rest of the space between the ruins and the hill was a close-cropt sward, which the daily pasture of the sheep kept in much finer order than if it had been subjected to the scythe and broom.
Let's hear from everybody, and see which girl has the best thought along this line. We want a way of making money in which everyone can join." "I don't see," complained Nettie, "how you are going to do it." "Never mind. Don't worry," said Mercy. "'Great oaks from little acorns grow, and a fine idea will sprout from the germ of Ruth's suggestion, I have no doubt."
In spite of the bitterness to which the slaughter at Seven Oaks gave rise, I think all fair-minded people have acknowledged that the settlers owed their lives to the warden's efforts. That night pandemonium itself could not have presented a more hideous scene than our encampment.
Down where he was the dust was flying so thickly he could scarce breathe, as it usually does on an Arizona track in the middle of summer. Before many minutes the engine began to slow down. The wheels had hardly stopped moving when Curly crept out, plowed through the sand, up the rubble of a little hill, and into a draw where a bunch of scrub oaks offered cover.
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
A short walk along the winding drive with such sward and oaks around it as one only sees in rural England, then a sudden turn, and the long, low Jacobean house of dingy, liver-coloured brick lay before us, with an old-fashioned garden of cut yews on each side of it.
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