. Out-door reveries. INTRODUCTION. The verses in this collection were not made to showscholarly attainments. The grammar school thewriter might have attended was never built. Whateducation he got was completed before the age oftwelve and then a life of adventure such as seldomfalls to the lot of ordinary men was begun. The adventures were not of the desperate sort onemeets with in the yellow-covered books, nor yet theactual dangers the soldiers meet on the firing line-neither did they bear any relation to the bombasticexploits of the modern lion hunter whose game isdriven to his gun by unarmed
. Out-door reveries. INTRODUCTION. The verses in this collection were not made to showscholarly attainments. The grammar school thewriter might have attended was never built. Whateducation he got was completed before the age oftwelve and then a life of adventure such as seldomfalls to the lot of ordinary men was begun. The adventures were not of the desperate sort onemeets with in the yellow-covered books, nor yet theactual dangers the soldiers meet on the firing line-neither did they bear any relation to the bombasticexploits of the modern lion hunter whose game isdriven to his gun by unarmed beaters. They werejust ordinary happenings such as one meets by loiter-ing in all manner of out-of-the-way places, such aslone canoe trips when, for nearly a month no whitemans face is sighted. The nearest to a thrill I canoffer was one night coming to camp through the woodafter dark with an empty rifle, the smell of a murdereddeer on my boots, and a pack of hungry wolves ap-parently howling on my track. The danger
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