Scribner's magazine . ings and turnings of the longer countiy-side walks until I got the idea of writingThe Stoiy of a Path. I am soriy to contradict , but, ifthere are no foot-paths in America,what becomes ofthe many croodgolden hours thatI have sj^ent inwell-tracked wood-land ways and innarrow foot-lanesthrough the wind-swejDt meadowgrass ? I cannotcfive these up: Ican only wish that^Ir. Burroughshad been my com-panion in them. A foot-path isthe most humanthing in inani-mate as the piintof his thumb re-veals the old of- THE STORY OF A PATH 757 fender to the detectives
Scribner's magazine . ings and turnings of the longer countiy-side walks until I got the idea of writingThe Stoiy of a Path. I am soriy to contradict , but, ifthere are no foot-paths in America,what becomes ofthe many croodgolden hours thatI have sj^ent inwell-tracked wood-land ways and innarrow foot-lanesthrough the wind-swejDt meadowgrass ? I cannotcfive these up: Ican only wish that^Ir. Burroughshad been my com-panion in them. A foot-path isthe most humanthing in inani-mate as the piintof his thumb re-veals the old of- THE STORY OF A PATH 757 fender to the detectives, so the pathtells you the sort of feet that wore the huniaii nature that createdit, it starts out to go straight whenstrength and determination shape itscourse, and it goes crooked when weak-ness lays it out. Until you begin tostudy them you can have no notion ofthe differences ofcharacter that ex-ist among foot-paths. One lineof trodden earthseems to you thesame as look! Is thepath you arewalking
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