ore perfectly

    developed and precocious even t

    yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very

    memorable.  All intelligence seems reflected in t

    not merely ty of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by

    experience.  Suc born w is

    coeval  reflects.  t yield another

    sucraveller does not often look into such a limpid

    or reckless sportsman often ss t at

    sucime, and leaves ts to fall a prey to some

    pro or bird, or gradually mingle he decaying leaves

    wched by a hen

    tly disperse on some alarm, and so are lost, for they

    never hese were

    my hens and chickens.

    It is remarkable ures live hough

    secret in till sustain the

    neigoed by ers only.  ired the

    otter manages to live o be four feet long, as big

    as a small boy, per any ting a glimpse of

    he woods behind where my house

    is built, and probably still  night.

    Commonly I rested an  noon, after

    planting, and ate my lunctle by a spring which was

    ters

    o through a

    succession of descending grassy ch pines,

    into a larger  there, in a very secluded and

    s, under a spreading  a clean,

    firm so sit on.  I  the spring and made a well of

    clear gray er, ,

    and t for t every day in midsummer,

    oo, the woodcock led her

    brood, to probe t a foot above them down

    troop beneat at last, spying me,

    she would leave her