HOMES XEAR TO NATURE 



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.RESTING ON THE ROCK COUCH IN THE WOODS. 



"See! It fits so well it feels soft." 



ing to you personally, as a naturalist, 

 telling how 1 do it. . . I know- 

 people who cannot sleep at night. 

 Better be up in the woods and let 

 nature cure them. . . May lose their 

 money. This is the true wealth. No 

 one can take it from you. In boyhood 

 I didn't know it. Never knew it till 

 I got out of business, and then I went 

 to Old Mother Nature and get what I 

 couldn't get elsewhere and what money 

 couldn't buv. 



"I went to Jerusalem, Old Spain, 

 the whole length of Italy, Germany, 

 France, England, Asia Minor, Egypt, 

 the Pyramids; but in none of these did 

 I find the equal of what I find in the 

 woods. Nature does not advertise. 

 You go by her, you spit on her, abuse 

 her, but there she is with arms wide 

 open, trying to help you and every- 

 body else. I was fifteen years 'at it' 

 before I knew it was there. It's a nice 

 thing to get something of value that 



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MR. HOYT AND THE WRITER UNDER THE GIANT OAK. 



