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by thinkin', and observing and studyin', he built up a 

 great system of philosophy that has ever since been 

 taught in the schools, and given to the world a deal 

 of knowledge it didn't possess before. It's thinkin' 

 and studyin' and observing that made the steam en- 

 gine, and the telegraph, and the locomotive, and rail- 

 roads, and steamboats, and the spinin' machines, and 

 iron ploughs, and many other useful contrivances, 

 that belong to the times we live in. These things 

 don't concern me much, for my ways ain't like the 

 ways of most men. I love the woods better'n the 

 settlements or the cities. I don't need but little to 

 live on, and I don't want to be rich ; but they help 

 the world along amazin'ly, and I like to see it. The 

 Shatagee Woods will last as long as I shall, and I 

 shall stay among 'em ; but people that don't like the 

 woods, they help to a livin', and if they want to go 

 ahead, they can go. 



" I mind once, I was over on the Lower Shatagee, 

 with a man from Montreal. He wasn't a hunter, nor 

 much given to fishin' ; but he'd a likin' for the woods, 

 and I paddled him round the lake for a week. He 

 went knockin' the stones to pieces, and lookin' into 

 the nater of all the rocks about, and studyin' the 



