Words would not restore it, and I wasted none; but next morning rose early, and, hatchet in hand, went to the parent tree, climbed on a fence and cut off a limb, which I dragged home, feeling glad that anything had brought me a walk on such a glorious morning.

I planted the main stock in that corner, then put about a hundred twigs in the swamp for basket willow.

In a few days my second tree disappeared, and I brought another, for a tree there was indispensable, and I hoped to make my husband see as I did, and thought I had won his consent to willows.

So I went up and down the race and runs, putting in twigs, and thinking of the "willows by the watercourses," and Israel's lament: "By Babel's streams we sat and wept When Zion we thought on, In midst thereof we hanged our harps The willow trees upon." I was banished from my Zion, never permitted to hear the teachings of my old pastor, for which my soul panted as the thirsty hart for the water brooks, and in my Babylon I wanted willows.

Some of my plantings were permitted to remain, and Swissvale is now noted for its magnificent willows; but that main tree was chopped up and burned.