In Winter Quarters 



buy it if you like, but I would certainly 

 not think of exchanging for it, on even 

 terms so far as my personal interest 

 in the subject matter is concerned a 

 copy of the first edition of "The Dune 

 Country," with an original pencil 

 sketch upon the title page entitled, "A 

 bit of Michigan Shore," with its in- 

 scription, "Drawn for Mr. and Mrs. 

 Alvin H. Sanders at the request of my 

 friend Mrs. French, Apr. 6, '17," and 

 autographed, "Earl H. Reed." 



On some occasion I remember to 

 have received a birthday or other anni- 

 versary card, carrying this sentiment: 

 "I love you because you love the 

 things that I love." All of which turns 

 my thoughts back to "A week on the 

 Concord and Merrimac rivers," with 

 my favorite companion Henry D. Thor- 

 eau, and as he discourses upon Friend- 

 ship I hear him say: "As I love 

 nature, as I love singing birds and 

 gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers 

 and morning and evening, and summer 

 and winter, I love thee, my Friend." 

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