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BEAR-HUNTING THE SPORT OF PRESIDENTS 



INTROSPECTION is not good for human be- 

 ings. It leads to neurasthenia, wife-beating, 

 new religions, freak clothes, Nature-faking, 

 all sorts of things. Turn the eye outward, and there 

 are the earth and the sky ; likewise many wild crea- 

 tures, such as never were in the Arr Noovo of 

 modern handmade Nature. 



Taking life just as it has come to me from the 

 outside, I confess that I personally have never seen 

 the wild animals fashionable in the New Thought; 

 and I have never hesitated to go hunting, when I 

 got the chance, with rifle, and not notebook, in hand. 

 I have never met a soulful wolverene, have never 

 encountered a magazine lynx, and never run across 

 a Sunday newspaper wolf in all my simple, un- 

 eventful life. I have seen pictures of wild ani- 

 mals in the magazines which gave me cold shivers; 

 but, without pride or shame, I can say that in a 

 fairly broad experience with big game, I never 

 met a wild animal which gave me any shivers at 



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