"We love things not because they are beautiful, but they are beautiful 



because we love them." 



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The Guide to Nature. 



EDUCATION AND RECREATION 



Vol. I 



MAY, 1908 



No. 2 



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iTffi OUTDOOR WORLD 



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Savages in the Jungles of Hoang Ho. 



A PARODY, A PARALLEL AND A PUZZLE 



By Edward F. Bigelow 



Stamford, Connecticut 



"A man lay upon the grass, peering - at it and among it, studying it curiously and in- 

 tently with a magnifying glass. His friend passed by and asked, 'What do you do there?' 

 Said the man, 'I am traveling in a foreign land.' " — "The Century Magazine." 



Author's Note. — I have applied thi 

 a foreign land to an ordinary ramble i 

 Park only a short distance from the ce 

 live. I have treated this as a "foreig 

 who live near it, or perhaps have been 

 place trees, birds, cows, squirrels, fr 

 rare specimens. The scantily clad boy 

 in all seriousness, I think they did 

 place as "home" than do most of us. 



s principle of "grass travelling" as in 

 n a grove by a brook near Woodside 

 nter of the City of Stamford, in which I 

 n land" (as it is in sad reality to many 

 in it) and have mentioned the common- 

 ogs and microscopic forms of life as 

 s represent the "native" savages. And 

 get nearer to the heart of the charming 



Copyright 1908 by The Agassiz Association. Stamford, Conn- 



