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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



A QUAINT OLD TIME HOUSE JUST ACROSS THE ROAD. 



nothing at all in the way of farming. 

 He lives in the country, he walks 

 around, smokes his pipe and thinks 

 thoughts that are long and intricate 

 with the juxtaposition of incongruous 

 concepts. Unlike the common concep- 

 tion of the man who has to originate 

 several pages of new material every 

 week, he does not put both hands under 

 his chin with his elbows on the table 



and think a thought, nor does he run 

 his hand through his hair in a desperate 

 search for another thought. He just 

 dreams. He takes his dogs and goes 

 for a walk and finds some huge boulder 

 in the orchard where, like the time- 

 honored Josh who when asked what he 

 did in his spare time replied that most- 

 ly he "sot" and thought but sometimes 

 he just "sot." So I imagine it is with 



AND FINDS SOME HUGE BOULDER IN THE ORCHARD." 



