PREFACE-DEDICATION 



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 A. M. 0. 



After the making of Eden came a serpent, 

 and after the gorgeous furnishing of the world, 

 a human being. Why the existence of the de- 

 stroyers ? What monstrous folly, think you, 

 ever led Nature to create her one great enemy 

 man ! Before his coming security may have 

 been ; but how soon she learned the meaning of 

 fear when this new CEdipus of her brood was 

 brought forth ! And how instinctively she 

 taught the fear of him to the rest of her chil- 

 dren ! To-day, after centuries of association, 

 every bird and beast and creeping thing the 

 wolf in the forest, the antelope on the plain, 

 the wild fowl in the sedge fly from his ap- 

 proach. They know his civilization means their 

 destruction. Even the grizzly, secure in the 

 chaparral of his mountain home, flinches as he 

 crosses the white man's trail. The boot mark 

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