WAYS OF NATURE 
of his log cabin, ran along one of the logs to a point 
opposite the bread, and then sprang out sidewise 
toward the loaf, which each one struck, but upon 
which only one seemed able to effect a lodgment. 
Then this one would cling to the loaf and act as a 
stop to his fellows when they tried a second time, 
his body affording them the barrier they required. 
My friend felt sure that this leader deliberately and 
consciously aided the others in securing a footing 
on the loaf. But I read the incident differently. 
This successful jumper aided his fellows without 
designing it. The exigencies of the situation com- 
pelled him to the course he pursued. Having ef- 
fected a lodgment upon the impaled loaf, he would 
of course cling to it when the others jumped so as 
not to be dislodged, thereby, willy nilly, helping 
them to secure a foothold. The codperation was in- 
evitable, and not the result of design. 
The power to see straight is the rarest of gifts; 
to see no more and no less than is actually before 
you; to be able to detach yourself and see the thing 
as it actually is, uncolored or unmodified by your 
own sentiments or prepossessions. In short, to see 
with your reason as well as with your perceptions, 
that is to be an observer and to read the book of 
nature aright. 
