THE HERO ENTERS SUDDENLY 



were quiet When the revelation came. If 

 you wish to see a bird go to its nest with- 

 out misleading artifices, you must be will- 

 ing to be quiet. If you would follow the 

 little creature as it rears its young and 

 launches them in the world, you must be 

 quiet. Indeed, without quiet you will 

 never view any but a disguised form of bird 

 or beast or insect life. 



The secret of forest calm was one of the 

 earliest out-door mysteries into which 

 Chupes and Jenny initiated me. One need 

 not be a stock or a stone; one need not as- 

 sume an attitude of painful, tiresome rigid- 

 ity; but one must learn that bustling, noisy 

 ways are all out of place in Nature's school. 

 She cannot reveal herself to restless listen- 

 ers. One must be willing to wait for her 

 interpretations; to wait to catch the sound 

 of the myriad voices, none of which is with- 

 out signification; but such waiting is never 

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