PREFACE-DEDICATION 



Co 

 A. M. C. 



After the making of Eden came a serpent, 

 and after the gorgeous furnishing of the world, 

 a human being. Why the existence of the de- 

 stroyers ? What monstrous folly, think you, 

 ever led Nature to create her one great enemy 

 — man ! Before his coming security may have 

 been ; but how soon she learned the meaning of 

 fear when this new (Edipus of her brood was 

 brought forth I And how instinctively she 

 taught the fear of him to the rest of her chil- 

 dren ! To-day, after centuries of association, 

 every bird and beast and creeping thing^the 

 wolf in the forest, the antelope on the plain, 

 the wild fowl in the sedge — fly from his ap- 

 proach. They know his civilization means their 

 destruction. Even the grizzly, secure in the 

 chaparral of his mountain home, flinches as he 

 crosses the white man's trail. The boot mark 

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