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by thinkin', and observin', and studyin', be built up a 

 great system of pbilosopby tbat bas ever since been 

 taugbt in tbe scbools, and given to tbe world a deal 

 of knowledge it didn't possess before. It's tbinkin' 

 and studyin' and observin,' tbat made tbe steam en- 

 gine, and tbe telegrapb, and tbe locomotive, and rail- 

 roads, and steamboats, and tbe spinin' macbines, and 

 iron plougbs, and many otber useful contrivances, 

 tbat belong to tbe times we live in. Tbese tbings 

 don't concern me mucb, for my ways ain't like tbe 

 ways of most men. I love tbe woods better'n tbe 

 settlements or tbe cities. I don't need but little to 

 live on, and I don't want to be ricb ; but tbey belp 

 tbe world along amazin'ly, and I like to see it. Tbe 

 Sbatagee Woods will last as long as I sball, and I 

 sball stay among 'em ; but people tbat don't like tbe 

 woods, tbey belp to a livin', and if tbey want to go 

 abead, tbey can go. 



" I mind once, I was over on tbe Lower Sbatagee, 

 witb a man from Montreal. He wasn't a bunter, nor 

 mucb given to fisbin' ; but be'd a likin' for tbe woods, 

 and I paddled bim round tbe lake for a week. He 

 went knockin' tbe stones to pieces, and lookin' into 

 tbe nater of all tbe rocks about, and studyin' tbe 



