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tree and fall to eating it not the tree, but the 

 earth, the raw, rich soil until her muzzle was 

 muddy halfway to her eyes. You do not need to eat 

 it; but the need to smell it, to see it, to feel it, to 

 work in it, is just as real as the cow's need to eat it. 



VIII 



You ought to learn how to browse and nibble in 

 the woods. What do I mean? Why, just this: that 

 you ought to 

 learn how to 

 taste the woods 

 as well as to see 

 them. Maurice 

 Thompson, in 

 " Byways and 



Bird Notes," SASSAFRAS 



a book you 

 ought to read (and that is another "ought to do" 

 for this summer), has a chapter called " Browsing 

 and Nibbling" in which his mountain guide says: 

 "What makes me allus a-nibblin' an' a-browsin' of 

 the bushes an' things as I goes along? I kinder 

 b'lieve hit keeps a feller's heart stiddy an' his blood 

 pure for to nibble an' browse kinder like a deer 

 does. You know a deer is allus strong an' active, 

 an' hit is everlastin'ly a-nibblin' an' a-browsin'. Ef 

 hit is good for the annymel, hit otter be good for 

 the feller." 



