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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



"IN A BUSINESS BLOCK IN THE CENTER OF STAMFORD, IN A FRONT ROOM ON THE 



NOISIEST PART OF THE CITY SQUARE, IS DR. LONG'S NATURAL HISTORY STUDY. 



for my fire. An Indian or a woodman t rayed of the animals in his chapter 



takes his axe and drives into the first 'The Gladsome Life." he still sticks 



good birch he sees, and I never can to his text, — that "every scrap." Not a 



make him understand why he must track but is worthy of careful examin- 



let that tree alone and take a poorer ation ; not a motion but must be fol- 



one." lowed to its source ; not an action but 



There in the woods, though he lets must be watched to see what it may 



himself loose in play, as he has por- tell of the life of the woods. He has 



EXAMINING THE FIELD NOTEBOOKS. 

 Dr. Long often writes standing at the desk in the corner. 



