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barefoot when we can, in rubber boots if we must; 

 sometimes with a fish-pole, sometimes with a hoe; 

 sometimes with a camera but never with a gun;| y 

 and if we see nothing more than the sky and the c 

 earth, we shall not have had our tramp in vain not,; '> 

 if the sky is full of clouds or storm or stars; and not\ 

 if the earth is full of wideness and freshness and free- f ; 

 dom; and not if our hearts are full of it may be, of ^ f ; 

 those strange deep feelings that the hearts of children K / 

 know. 



And so the author hopes that this book in its new * 

 cover, with its new name (it is made of four books of | ' 

 the seasons bound in one) will find its way into many t 

 homes, where the four separate books went only to^ '? 

 the schools. And if it comes to your home, he hopes \ [ 

 that it will take you into the fields and woods and, 4') 

 if possible, cause you to love them and all their wilding 

 life more. ,'' 



DALLAS LORE SHARP, fe* 



MULLEIN HILL, 1914. 



