HOMES NEAR TO NATURE. 



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to him by a little side issue whose ex- 

 istence was unsuspected. lie is like 

 a skilled miner who in working faith- 

 fully and efficiently for ordinary metals 

 discovers a vein of pure gold of whose 

 existence he had not even dreamed. 



But that gold enabled him to 

 achieve the ambition of his life, that 

 being, as he tells us in a magazine 

 article, to live in the wild where he 

 could experiment and observe as he 

 wished. 



himself, not the public, and all these 

 may be observed at Wyndygoul. 



There he has dreamed and planned 

 and dug with his enthusiastic wife as 

 helper or "partner," as he is fond of 

 calling her, and has made an ideal 

 home close to nature. In that home 

 Mr. and Mrs. Seton have a prime es- 

 sential — a loving, gentle, obedient, 

 graceful child. Even a casual reading 

 of his books shows him to be a lover 

 of children, and we can but congratu- 



MR. SETON AND HIS DAUGHTER, ANN, ON A LEDGE NEAR THE HOUSE. 



His readers and his audiences know 

 only the smaller "side issues" of 

 Ernest Thompson Seton. To know 

 him as he really is, one must see him 

 surrounded by his beloved nature, 

 must see him at his studies and influ- 

 enced by his special enthusiasms ; must 

 know of the things he does to please 



late him (and the "partner") upon 

 having" such a lovely specimen in his 

 own home. 



The location of that home in its 

 nearness of nature is ideal. Upon this 

 basis has been artistically expended 

 much hard work. When the property 

 was purchased it consisted chiefly of 



