"There is a higher sport in preservation than in destruction," says a
veteran hunter, whose forest experiences and descriptions have in part
enriched this story. I commend the opinion to boy-readers, trusting that
they may become "queer specimen sportsmen," after the pattern of Cyrus
Garst; and find a more entrancing excitement in studying the live wild
things of the forest than in gloating over a dying tremor, or examining
a senseless mass of horn, hide, and hoofs, after the life-spring which
worked the mechanism has been stilled forever.
One other desire has trodden on the heels of the first: That Young
England and Young America may be inspired with a wish to understand each
other better, to take each other frankly and simply for the manhood in
each; and that thus misconception and prejudice may disappear like mists
of an old-day dream.
ISABEL HORNIBROOK.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
I. JACKING FOR DEER
II. A SPILL-OUT
III. LIFE IN A BARK HUT
IV. WHITHER BOUND?
V. A COON HUNT
VI. AFTER BLACK DUCKS
VII. A FOREST GUIDE-POST
VIII.
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