As I came ring of fish,

    trailing my pole, it being noe dark, I caught a glimpse of a

    a strange thrill of

    savage deligrongly tempted to seize and devour him

    ra t I  wildness which he

    represented.  Once or the pond, I

    found myself ranging tarved h a

    strange abandonment, seeking some kind of venison w

    devour, and no morsel could oo savage for me.  the

    scenes ably familiar.  I found in

    myself, and still find, an instinct toward a  is

    named, spiritual life, as do most men, and anotoward a

    primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence th.  I love

    t less ture t

    are in fisill recommended it to me.  I like sometimes to take

    rank he animals do.  Perhaps

    I o t and to ing, we young, my

    closest acquaintance ure.  troduce us to and

    detain us in scenery  t age, we should

    tle acquaintance.  Fisers, woodchoppers, and

    othe fields and woods, in a peculiar

    sense a part of Nature ten in a more favorable

    mood for observing ervals of ts, than

    ps even, ion.  She

    is not afraid to ex o traveller on the

    prairie is naturally a er, on ters of the Missouri

    and Columbia a trapper, and at t. Mary a fisherman.

    raveller learns t second-he

    y.  e are most interested when science

    reports ically or instinctively,

    for t alone is a true y, or account of human experience.

    take  ts,

    because