AND OTHER HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



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city life, and betaking themselves to a life on the 

 plains; by living alone, or nearly so, and habitually 

 communing with themselves, with Nature, and with 

 Nature's God. If every young man raised in town 

 or city could have the advantages of a year or two 

 of constant study of Nature, untrammeled by 

 any air of vice, and at the proper time in life, we 

 should have more honest men, and fewer defaulters, 

 thieves, and criminals of every class. 



