Characteristic Replies to Mr. Burroughs 
— 
reader can see. They are all the inventions of Mr. 
Long. Of the real secrets of wild life, I do not find a 
trace in his volume.” — From “ Real and Sham Natural 
History,” the Av/antic Monthly, March, 1903. 
CBG DAADAAD 
CHARACTERISUICG, REREPES 
TO MR. BURROUGHS 
FSS SED 
From The Connecticut Magazine, Vol. VIII, No.1, 
Series of 1903 
mk LONG, who for many years has 
\%  beena quiet and patient observer 
of animals in their native wilds, 
has of late given us some delight- 
ful books that profess to record 
these observations. Mr. Bur- 
roughs denies these observations 
categorically ; calls them inven- 
tions, on the sole ground that he 
is himself an observer and has 
not seen these things; and condemns Mr. Long for 
perpetrating a fraud on an innocent public. 
This is a personal question between two writers ; 
the personal element must therefore enter into the dis- 
cussion of it. Dr. Long is, by reputation and by the tes- 
timony of all who know him, a gentleman of honor and 
integrity. His life has been one long search for the 
verities. At eighteen years he made the sacrifice that 
few can measure, of giving up home, friends, money, 
position, to follow what seemed to him the truth. He 
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