CHAPTER VII 



" THE SCHOOL OF THE WOODS " l 

 February, 1903. 



}HE SCHOOL OF THE WOODS " 



is a very fascinating book. It com- 

 pelled me to read it through at two 

 sittings, and I propose now to tackle 

 it again with the hope of giving my readers at 

 least a rough idea of its contents. It must not 

 be taken as a review, as such it should not find 

 a place in this volume. I retain it on account of 

 what seems to me to be the very interesting and 

 amusing stories I have quoted. The author does 

 not tell us precisely on what part of the globe it 

 was that he studied the educational system 

 carried on by the inhabitants of the woods ; it 

 may be safely inferred that it was somewhere 

 away off in the backwoods of America, probably 

 in the neighbourhood of the Rockies. Wherever 



1 " The School of the Woods : some Life Studies. " By 

 W. J. Long, Ginn and Co., 9, St. Martin St., London. 

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