Have you no place where you eat and rest and sleep ?" "Except in the rainy season, I camp all over the place--at any spot where I may have been shooting or collecting." "Collecting ?" queried Nellie.
"Yes; with the herbarium, you know." "Yes," said Nellie dubiously.

"But you told me once--the first time we ever talked together," she added, looking in his eyes--"something about your keeping your things like a squirrel in a tree.

Could we not go there?
Is there not room for us to sit and talk without being browbeaten and looked down upon by these supercilious trees ?" "It's too far away," said Low truthfully, but with a somewhat pronounced emphasis, "much too far for you just now; and it lies on another trail that enters the wood beyond.

But come, I will show you a spring known only to myself, the wood ducks, and the squirrels.

I discovered it the first day I saw you, and gave it your name.