CHAPTER XI 



" A LITTLE BROTHER TO THE BEAR " l 



February ', 1904. 



'ERE I venture again to introduce 

 another book by the same author 

 as that quoted in Chapter VII 

 not as a review, but because I think 

 the stories quoted will prove of interest to my 

 readers. It is a veritable brother of the same 

 school. The author's observations cover a period 

 of some thirty years, so he tells us, from the time 

 when he first began to prowl about the home 

 woods with a child's wonder and delight, to his 

 last hard winter trip into the Canadian wilder- 

 ness. All the sketches and observations are 

 mainly from his own notebooks or from his own 

 memory. The more he has investigated the 

 habits and manners and customs of the wild 

 animals and birds of the woods, the more in- 



1 "A Little Brother to the Bear, and other Animal 

 Stories." By William J. Long, Ginn and Co. 

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