The Arcadia of Wild Animals. 



Neither is there any terror, usually, but rather an exultant 

 sense of power and victory in running" away. Watch the 

 deer, yonder, in his magnificent rush, light and swift as a 

 hawk, over ground where other feet than his must halt and 

 creep ; watch the partridge in that clean, sure, curving plunge 

 into the safety and shelter of the evergreen swamp. Hoof and 

 wing alike seem to laugh at the danger behind, and to rejoice 

 in their splendid power and training. 



This simple fact, so glad in itself, so obvious to one who 

 keeps his eyes open in Nature's world, is mentioned here by 

 way of invitation — to assure the reader that, if he enter this 

 school of the woods, he will see little truly of that which made 

 his heart ache in his own sad world; no tragedies or footlight 

 effects of woes and struggles, but rather a wholesome, cheer- 

 ful life to make one glad and send him back to his own school 

 with deeper wisdom and renewed courage. — William J. Long in 

 •'School of the Woods." 



