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of your friends and fellow citizens as does the late 

 John Muir and our patron saint Audubon. 



For, after all, it is only those studies and pur- 

 suits which make better citizens of us which are 

 worthy of our pursuit, and in closing I want to 

 thank my readers for travelling along with me 

 among the fields and forests, brooks and farms, 

 which made me feel again hke a happy twelve- 

 year-old boy. 



