"Have you quite settled about the forest with Ryabinin?" asked Levin.

From Baden-Baden we made the customary trip into the Black Forest . We were on foot most of the time.

I am giving all these details of a perfectly natural invention, producing, with a few painted branches, the supernatural illusion of an equatorial forest blazing under the tropical sun, so that no one may doubt the present balance of my brain or feel entitled to say that I am mad or lying or that I take him for a fool.[11]

Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children.

When occasionally a long reach of this avenue could be beheld, it presented a curious scene of uniformity: the white line of logs, narrowing in perspective, became hidden by the gloomy forest , or terminated in a zigzag which ascended some steep hill.

Now, there was an old manor-house, where they no longer ate snails, they were quite extinct; but the burdocks were not extinct, they grew and grew all over the walks and all the beds; they could not get the mastery over them--it was a whole forest of burdocks.

The whole forest became suddenly a babel of hoarse screams and shrill shrieks.

Also, there are the Tree People who dwelt in the forest between Long Lake and the mountains.

The Ranger or the Forest , that cuts the foreclaws off our dogs.

They went through the muddy village, past threshing floors and green fields of winter rye, downhill where snow still lodged near the bridge, uphill where the clay had been liquefied by the rain, past strips of stubble land and bushes touched with green here and there, and into a birch forest growing on both sides of the road.

Slowly the stricken flier sank to the ground, and when I had freed myself and Woola from the entangling wreckage I found that we were upon the verge of a natural forest--so rare a thing upon the bosom of dying Mars that, outside of the forest in the Valley Dor beside the Lost Sea of Korus, I never before had seen its like upon the planet.