Word: hamadryad
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...Angry Hamadryad. He hiked, drove, mushed on snowshoes over his forest, and "learned more about the dynamics of the district than I'd ever known." He learned the need for weeding and care of the timberlands: acres and acres of his domain were useless, some trees as old as 800 years, others choked to death. McCullough had to absorb the hard facts of the lumber industry-how to figure permissible profits (12%), write newspaper ads, conduct bidding and police logging. He had to plan the cultivation of crops that might take 120 years to harvest. And he was profoundly...
There are further chapters in Gilbert Parker's powerful serial, The Seats of the Mighty, and two poems of exceptional quality, The Song of a Shepherd Boy at Bethlehem, by Josephine Preston Peabody, and The Hamadryad, by Edward A. Uffington Valentine...
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