Introduction 
Indiana, and Illinois. On these expeditions he 
had disciplined himself to endure hardship, 
for his notebooks disclose the fact that he often 
went hungry and slept in the woods, or on the 
open prairies, with no cover except the clothes 
he wore. 
“Oftentimes,” he writes in some unpublished 
biographical notes, “I had to sleep out with- 
out blankets, and also without supper or break- 
fast. But usually I had no great difficulty in 
finding a loaf of bread in the widely scattered 
clearings of the farmers. With one of these big 
backwoods loaves I was able to wander many 
a long, wild mile, free as the winds in the glori- 
ous forests and bogs, gathering plants and feed- 
ing on God’s abounding, inexhaustible spiritual 
beauty bread. Only once in my long Canada 
wanderings was the deep peace of the wilder- 
ness savagely broken. It happened in the maple 
woods about midnight, when I was cold and my 
fire was low. I was awakened by the awfully 
dismal howling of the wolves, and got up in 
haste to replenish the fire.”’ 
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