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thy fall short of the miraculous changes to be observed in the case of poplar that leaves the county (either Culpeper or Rappahannock) as poplar but arrives in Georgetown as ash or hickory. Locust, too, enroute sometimes changes into hickory. Black Birch is transmuted into cherry and occasionally into apple wood. These miracles, not unlike the scriptural report of the changing of water into wine, seem to occur somewhere between Warrenton and Gainesville.
I gave all of this information to the Minnesotan, and then advised him that the character of the wood supplier was also important. For four or five years I had the same provider in Georgetown. I suspected that some kind of territorial or personal imperitive had been established in that part of the city for all other wood-men seemed to qyoid my house. I got the best wood from my supplier in the early years of our association. When later I complained about a cord I had bought, he advised me that one had to make choices among woods, which, he said, were like women— some gave heat and some gave light. He went on to give me a dissertation on what kind of wood was best for each variety of romantic situation, and as to which of the senses were most affected by different kinds of wood. He recommended oak and hickory for warmth, locust and pine for sound and color, birch and poplar for light, cherry and apple if it were odor you wanted.
As the years of our relationship ran on, the wood man seemed gradually to lose interest in wood and natural phenomena, and to turn to religion. As he became more religious, the quality of his wood declined. As the last wood brought from him smoldered in my fireplace, I read the card he had left. It encouraged me to have faith in the Lord and in my fellow men (including wood sellers), and advised me to “Keep Smiling.”
I advised the Minnesotan first to buy only oak, and second to settle for a “Georgetown Cord,” over ricks, racks,^ and cribs and other odd measures, and third, to be careful of philosophical wood seller.- and fourth, to shun those who" offered religion, especially with mixed wood.
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