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NESSMUK 
(continued from page 294 ) 
isms are, to me, but as fetish. But, I 
sometimes ask myself, did the strong, 
healthy, magnetic nature of that Indian 
pass into my boyish life as I rode on his 
powerful shoulders or slept in his strong 
arms beneath the soft whispering pines? 
The Indians have passed away forever; 
and when I tried to find the resting place 
of my old friend, with the view of putting 
a plain stone above his grave; no one could 
point out the spot. And this is how I 
happen to write over the name by which 
he was known among his people, and the 
reason why a favorite dog or canoe is 
quite likely to be called Nessmuk 
The foregoing will partly explain how 
it came that, ignoring the weary, devious 
roads by which men attain to wealth and 
position, I became a devotee of nature in 
her wildest and roughest aspects—a lover 
of field sports—a hunter, angler, canoeist— 
an uneducated man withal, save the educa¬ 
tion that comes of long and constant com¬ 
munication with nature, and a perusal of 
the best English authors.” 
In a letter to the Editor of Forest and 
Stream written in more jovial mood and 
probably not intended for publication, Ness¬ 
muk confesses: 
"To myself I sometimes appear as a wild 
Indian or an old Berserker, masquerading 
under the disguise of a Nineteenth Century 
American. When the straight-jacket of 
civilization becomes too oppressive, I throw 
it off, betake myself to savagery, and there 
'loaf and refresh my soul.’ 
“I suppose I might be called tolerably 
well-educated. Like Shakespeare I have ‘a 
little Latin and less Greek,’ know somewhat 
of the mysteries of the laboratory and mi¬ 
croscope, while belles-lettres and literature 
are not totally unknown to me. 
‘‘Have pedagogued in Ohio, ‘bullwhacked’ 
across the plains, been a silver miner in 
Colorado, an editor in Missouri, have hob¬ 
nobbed with the Century Club in Boston, 
and with Indians in Arizona; been a cow¬ 
boy in Texas, and a ‘web-foot’ in Oregon— 
in short, a kind of Wandering Jew and 
peripatetic Jack-of-all-trades. 
“I love a horse, a dog, a gun, a trout, and 
a pretty girl. I hate a pot-hunter, a trout- 
liar, and a whisky-guzzling sportsman. I 
smoke and take an occasional glass of wine 
and never lie about my hunting and fishing 
exploits more than the occasion seems to 
demand.” 
Nessmuk was one of the pioneers of the 
movement for game conservation. He 
seems to have realized the struggle that 
(was before the wild life of America in 
order that they should not vanish from the 
earth, and he speaks for them in no uncer¬ 
tain terms—"I can answer for one old 
woods loafer, who will never again shoot 
the mother doe or her bright-eyed fawn, 
or raise any gun against even the buck save 
the old single-barreled, hair-triggered muz¬ 
zle-loader that has been his favorite for 
thirty-six years. If a man has one fair 
shot at a deer and misses it is a point of 
honor to let the deer go. I am afraid I 
stand alone, but I hope not. I like to be¬ 
lieve that there are men who can take their 
vacations like humane gentlemen.” 
(to be continued next month) 
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