WAYS AND MEANS. 



These pages are not for the man who 

 has developed and matured a plan of life 

 in the woods — testing, rejecting, adopting; 

 till the sum of created things has been 

 divided, for the purposes in hand, into 

 indispensables and dispensables — the latter 

 jettisoned, the former worked out in every 

 detail to his perfect liking. I would be 

 more comfortable sitting at the feet of such 

 an one than proffering him instruction. 



Nor am I competing with the shopman's 

 encyclopaedic catalogue which reveals to 

 us a host of unf elt wants he is not unwilling 

 to supply. 



Rather regard this, I pray you, as a 

 gossip between learners, unhappily for 

 both of us in monological form, where some 

 random harvestings of experience are gath- 

 ered into untidy sheaves. 



Plunging then with the least delay into a 

 large subject, there shall hardly be mis- 

 take in opening on foot-gear. A man is no 

 better than his boots. Feet that are ill-shod 

 and ill-cared for upset programs, and put 

 distressful ininus sign in front of all the 

 items they comprise. When the boots you 

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