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'HE reader who follows these trails will find 

 them leading into a new country, a land 

 of space and silence where it is good to 

 be, away up among the mountains and woods and 

 salmon rivers and mossy barren grounds of Lab- 

 rador and Newfoundland. There he will find him- 

 self face to face with new animals — white wolf, 

 fisher, salmon, wild goose, polar bear, and a score 

 of others big and little — that stop their silent hunt- 

 ing to look at the intruder curiously and without 

 fear. In his turn he will lay aside his gun and his 

 thoughts of killing for a moment, and watch these 

 animals with his heart as well as his eyes wide open, 

 trying to see without prejudice just what things 

 they are doing, and then to understand if possible 



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