62 WOODLAND IDYLS. 



comes into his hands, looking never forward, 

 but ever only at to-day. Broken in spirit he is 

 willing thus to serve, to do without question 

 that which his master with money, oftentimes 

 greatly his inferior in intellect, asks or demands 

 that he shall do. 



"Theirs not to reason why, 

 Theirs but to do and die" 



applies as well to the millions of toilers in the 

 cities, engaged in the great struggle for exist- 

 ence, as to the famous six hundred that charged 

 the forlorn hope at Balaklava. Back then to 

 nature, to the content with little which was the 

 richest possession of our ancestors, to plain liv- 

 ing and high thinking, to love, to duty and to 

 work. 



Dudes and naturalists belong to different 

 genera. The woods judge not a man by his 

 clothes. The older they are the more the woods 

 yield unto him their secrets. With a pair of 

 heavy shoes and an old pair of trousers, patched 

 and frayed, he can travel freely and at will 

 through bramble and thicket, over barbed wire 

 fence and through bog and morass after any 

 object which may strike his fancy. At any 

 point he can throw himself down and rest with- 

 out thinking of his attire. 



The old clothes themselves seem to rejoice 

 when he dons them for an outing. The pure 



