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it is his to breathe the unpolluted air of the field 

 and forest ; to see and hear, to taste and smell 

 and touch, yet never to be weighted with the 

 doubts with which the wrangling professionals 

 befog the pleasant landscape. Their knowledge 

 may be untechnical, but so far as it extends it 

 is not untrue, and that, and that only, is the 

 worthy aim, the honorable ambition, of the 

 honest amateur. 



