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Title: Trees Are Where You Find Them

Author: Arthur Dekker Savage

Illustrator: Philip Parsons

Release Date: September 17, 2009 [EBook #30010]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

_The trees on Mars are few and stunted, says old Doc Yoris. There's
plenty of gold, of course--but trees can be much more important!_

TREES
_are where
you find
them_

By Arthur Dekker Savage

Illustrated by Philip Parsons

You might say the trouble started at the Ivy, which is a moving picture
house in Cave Junction built like a big quonset. It's the only show in
these parts, and most of us old-timers up here in the timber country of
southwest Oregon have got into the habit of going to see a picture on
Saturday nights before we head for a tavern.

But I don't think old Doc Yoris, who was there with Lew and Rusty and
me, had been to more than two or three shows in his life. Doc is kind of
sensitive about his appearance on account of his small eyes and big nose
and ears; and since gold mining gave way to logging and lumber mills,
with Outsiders drifting into the country, Doc has taken to staying on
his homestead away back up along Deer Creek, near the boundary of the
Siskiyou National Forest. It's gotten so he'll come to Cave Junction
only after dark, and even then he wears dark glasses so strangers won't
notice him too much.

I couldn't see anything funny about the picture when Doc started
laughing, but I figure it's a man's own business when he wants to laugh,
so I didn't say anything. The show was one of these scientific things,
and when Doc began to cackle it was showing some men getting out of a
rocket ship on Mars and running over to look at some trees.

Rusty, who's top choker setter in our logging outfit, was trying to see
Doc's point. He can snare logs with a hunk of steel cable faster than
anyone I know, but he's never had much school