156 HILLS AND LAKES. 



ain't found in books and isn't got in the colleges. A 

 greenhorn would be just as likely to hunt with the 

 wind, as against it, and wonder why he didn't get 

 sight of a deer. I could tell him why ; it's because a 

 deer can smell a man twenty, and may be forty rod 

 when he hunts with the wind, and will get out of his 

 way ; while he who hunts agin the wind, the deer 

 won't smell him at all, and he knocks him over. You 

 see how suddenly that brood of young ducks have 

 disappeared. Well, a man not used to their ways 

 would say, they hid away because they saw us ; but 

 when I see that, I look round for a bald eagle, and 

 he's sure to be soarin', like that one yonder, in the 

 sky. These things, as I said, ain't much of them- 

 selves ; but it's such small things that set men to 

 thinkin', and studyin', and at last rolls up into a heap 

 of knowledge. It may be, it wouldn't be worth much 

 to trade on, in the cities; but it's a good thing out 

 here in the Shatagee, and don't hurt a man anywhere. 

 I've hearn it said, that a great many years ago, a 

 man was restin' himself under the shade of an apple 

 tree, when one of the apples fell to the ground, that it 

 set him to thinkin' why it should fall down to the 

 ground, instead of upwards, towards the sky, and that 



