Sometimes I went south to visit our German neighbors and to admire their catalpa grove, or to see the big elm tree that grew up out of a deep crack in the earth and had a hawk's nest in its branches.
Excerpt from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
North of the house, inside the ploughed fire-breaks, grew a thick-set strip of box-elder trees, low and bushy, their leaves already turning yellow…
A. the importance of neighbors
B. the simplicity of animals
C. the values of farm life
D. the beauty of nature
