seed-pines

Updated: June 13, 2025

You'd ought to hear him light into the choppers when they forget to leave the seed-pines or when they cut under six inches butt diameter." Mr. Welles had no more notion what cutting under six inches butt diameter meant than he had of the name of the little brown bird who sang so sweetly in his elm; but Paul's voice and that of the nameless bird gave him the same pleasure.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Brimming Cup