The Lovers of the Woods (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Lovers of the Woods To live properly and hunt and fish successfully. It adds to his self-respect and self-reliance to know how to cook and camp and pack, to use his legs and boats and horses to get out Of trouble and to keep out Of trouble. While ac quiring these accomplishments he has, if he is a good man, become sated with killing. He has had abundant proof of his skill in approach ing game and in shooting straight, of knowl edge Of fish habits and handiness in taking them, and he does not want to kill anything any more unless he needs it in his business. If he is un worthy he keeps ou killing, if he is a limited person his activities end and he sets up for a sage, but if he is wise his accomplishment of being able to use his eyes is set to nobler pur poses, and he learns that it is a never-ending joy to win acquaintance with the timber trees and forest shrubs and plants, to learn how the ani mals live and think, to know well and under stand the splendid simple men whom a lifetime. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.