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old man is paid to watch the tree and see that no harm is done to it during the summer. It is curious to see how many people come to see the Major Oak. Then we walked on the Budby another village in the forest. It is very pretty with its square brown stone houses with flower gardens and a stream running by. 

We spent the afternoon beneath the Major Oak. Toward evening a beautiful shaft of sunlight broke out and shown on the oak. It was a glorious sight and showed how wonderful it could look. 

August 7, 1908.

Friday morning we drove through the forest to one of the Dukeries. It was a bright day and the woods looked lovely with the sunlight filtering through the leaves and the bracken. At one time it was probably a forest of oaks, but now white birches are scattered about and there are a few little groves of pine and fur.

The Dukerie is a stremendous estate of eighty thousand acres. The houses of the attendents, and the stables, look like a village.