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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



WHERE HE GETS HIS INSPIRATION. MR. BACHELLER IS FOND OF WALKING IN THE 



WOODS AND OBSERVING THE VARIOUS FORMS OF LIFE. 



"It's the ol' man o' the woods," said Uncle Eb. E's out takin' a walk." — "Eben Holden." 



we look out through the open door wide range of Irving Bacheller's love 



that he has set before us." of a nearness to nature and especially 



* * his love of the woods. For such a na- 



Thus in a few selections from his ture lover his home is ideally located 



own words, I have best shown the at Riverside, Connecticut. The view 



