The Four-Story Mistake
“Of course there were a lot of oaks; dozens of them. There were birch trees, too, with bark like torn satin, and hickory trees, and elms, and pines, and big silvery beeches that looked as if they’d been poured into molds. Thousands of trees, there were. But this oak was special.
Rush had been looking for the right tree for days, now. It had to be tall, for one thing; it had to have widespread branches not too near the earth, and it had to be strong. Also it had to grow on a hill. This was it.
On...ce long ago Rush had built a tree house in a place where the Melendys used to spend their summers, and he had never forgotten it. It had been his own private domain and nobody had been allowed to enter it without a special invitation extended by the architect. He remembered with pleasure the privacy and power he had felt in his tree house. He remembered the way it had creaked and swayed high among the branches; and how it bucked and leaped like a ship at sea whenever the wind was strong. It had been wonderful to lie on his back in that airy, gently rocking nest and look up into the living, complicated structure of leaves and branches.MoreLess
Rush had been looking for the right tree for days, now. It had to be tall, for one thing; it had to have widespread branches not too near the earth, and it had to be strong. Also it had to grow on a hill. This was it.
On...ce long ago Rush had built a tree house in a place where the Melendys used to spend their summers, and he had never forgotten it. It had been his own private domain and nobody had been allowed to enter it without a special invitation extended by the architect. He remembered with pleasure the privacy and power he had felt in his tree house. He remembered the way it had creaked and swayed high among the branches; and how it bucked and leaped like a ship at sea whenever the wind was strong. It had been wonderful to lie on his back in that airy, gently rocking nest and look up into the living, complicated structure of leaves and branches.MoreLess
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