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"If my old fool of a grandfather hadn't let himself be bilked out of the whole holding," he said coarsely, "I'd own that timber to-day and I'd be a millionaire instead of a poor forest-ranger. By rights the land is mine, anyway." And again the ranger swore at his dead ancestor. Charley listened in disgust but made no comment. The ranger saw that he had talked too much. He muttered an apology.
When he had gotten rid of his exuberance he sat down at once to write to his brother Hal about it, and also his forest-ranger friend, Dick Leslie, with whom he had spent an adventurous time the last summer. At Carlton Hall, next day, Ken saw a crowd of students before the bulletin-board and, edging in, he read the following notice: BASEBALL!
There is, for example, one called the Forest-Ranger, whose place it is to interpose for the effectual prevention and checking of sales of timber to whites, by members of the different tribes; or removal by whites of timber from the Reserve, where a license, which suffers either to be done, has not been granted.
An avowed Huguenot, he was, shortly after the peace of Ryswick, hunted out of the country because of his attending the meetings in the Desert; but in 1700 he returned to preach and to prophesy, acting also as a forest-ranger in the Aigoal Mountains.
"I'm a forest-ranger," and he threw back his coat, exhibiting a keystone shaped badge on his breast. "And it's your duty to protect the forest from fire?" asked Charley. "Yes; and do a lot more besides. A forest-ranger has to look after the forest just as a gardener has to tend a garden.
And when he thought of all the forest meant to mankind more than any other single gift of nature excepting food and water he saw the forester, the forest-ranger, and the fire patrol in their true light. He saw them as real servants of the people, as real promoters and builders of civilization, which could not have come into existence without wood.
Be careful with your fires, boys. We don't want any more of this fine timber burned." "Are you a forest-ranger, too?" asked Charley eagerly. "No; I'm the forester. I have charge of this forest." "Why, I thought you were at headquarters with your fire crew," cried Charley, hardly realizing what he was saying. The man looked at him sharply. "I ought to be and I wish I were," he said.
At the distant end of the main street, standing squarely across its center, stood the little house which sheltered the branch of the United States land-office, the headquarters being at Meander, a town a day's journey beyond the railroad's end. A tight little board house it was, like a toy, flying the emblem of the brave and the free as gallantly as a schoolhouse or a forest-ranger station.
When it became known that the insurgents were again drawing together, others joined them. Amongst these were Castonet, a forest-ranger of the Aigoal mountain district in the west, who brought with him some twelve recruits from the country near Vebron. Shortly after, there arrived from Vauvert the soldier Catinet, bringing with him twenty more.
Margery, the widow of the late departed Forest-ranger, the Knight Sir Gotz Waldstromer, Councillor to his Imperial Majesty and Captain of the men-at-arms in our good city; and each profited during a longer or shorter space by her loving-kindness, and her wise and faithful counsel.
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