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you tame a hop-toad, feed him, watch him evening 

 after evening all summer, than make any sort of 

 dead or dried or pressed collection of anything. Live 

 things are better than those things dead. Better 

 know one live toad under your doorstep than bottle 

 up in alcohol all the reptiles of your state. 



XII 



Finally you should remember that kindliness and 

 patience and close watching are the keys to the out- 

 of-doors; that only sympathy and gentleness and 

 quiet are welcome in the fields and woods. What, 

 then, ought I to say that you should do finally? 



