Books with author Charles Livingstone Bull

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“White Fang” is a novel by American author Jack London (1876-1916). It was first published in 1906. The story takes place in Canada, during the Gold Rush at the end of the XIX century, and narrates a wild wolfdog’s journey to domestication. Much of it is written from the view-point of the canine character, exploring how wild animals view their world and that of human beings. The novel has been adapted for the screen numerous times.The ebook also contains- the original illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull (1874-1932);- a London's extra-story, the well-known “To Build a Fire” (1910);- a complete bibliography of London’s novels.

CHAPTER IThe BeginningIt was a bushmaster which started the Quest of the Emerald- and only a possible bushmaster at that. One May evening in Cornwall, Big Jim Donegan, the lumber-king, sat in the misty moonlight with his slippered feet on the rail of the veranda of the great house in which he lived alone. He was puffing away at a corn-cob pipe as placidly as if he did not have more millions than Cornwall has hills- which is saying something, for Cornwall has twenty-seven of the latter. Along the gravel walk, which wound its way for nearly half a mile to the entrance of the estate, came the sound of a dragging footstep. A moment later, from out of the shadows stepped a man over six feet in height, a little stooped, and who wore a shiny frock-coat surmounted by a somewhat battered silk hat. The stranger had a long, clean-shaven, lantern-jawed face. His nose jutted out like a huge beak, a magnificent, domineering nose, which, however, did not seem in accord with his abstracted blue eyes and his precise voice.

This book was originally published in 1921 and is illustrated with over 20 ink and pen drawings. It has 10 stories written from both from Evarts personal experience and the lore of the Soshone and their god-ancestor Manitou. It covers the lives of various animals from their birth to their death, with descriptions of how they eat, hunt, raise young, and mate. It follows the massive decrease in animals in the Yellowstone region after the land changes from the hands of the Shoshone to the white man, shows the different ways humans hunt and trap animals, and describes the various physical and spiritual connections between some animals and the humans they interact with.This book has the following stories:THE BALD FACE: About three bears: Tumwa, the yellowish-brown grizzly, Saka-Tumwa, the silvertip, and Logo-Tumwa, the bald-face.THE TAWNY MENACE: About the mountain lion Loupang.THE PALMATED PIONEER: About Stranger the moose.THE VANISHED SQUADRONS: About the white cranes Latakinee and his mate Matinak.TRAVELING OTTER: About the otter Talagwa.THE BLACK RAM OF SUNLIGHT: About Tukuar, a black ram.DOG TOWN: About the prairie dogs Weekin and his mate Weechi.THE BLACK AND CINNAMON TWINS: About the two bears: the cinnamon Wakinoo and the black bear Wakinee.SAVAGERY: About Wawina, the silver-black fox and Wameechin, the red she-fox.THE LAST MOVE: About Fleet, the pronghorn buck.About the Author: Hal George Evarts, Sr. (1887-1934) was a best-selling author of western adventure in the 1920s and 1930s. He traveled all over the west, and at various times was a rancher, trapper, a surveyor in the U.S. Indian Territory, a back-country hunting guide in Wyoming, and raised fur-bearing animals for their pelts. He became an acknowledged expert on hunting and trapping, and in his midlife became outdoors editor of "The Saturday Evening Post", specializing in articles about hunting.

In the following story I have tried to trace the career of a fox of the backwoods districts of Eastern Canada. The hero of the story, Red Fox, may be taken as fairly typical, both in his characteristics and in the experiences that befall him, in spite of the fact that he is stronger and cleverer than the average run of foxes. This fact does not detract from his authenticity as a type of his kind. He simply represents the best, in physical and mental development, of which the tribe of the foxes has shown itself capable. In a litter of young foxes there is usually one that is larger and stronger, and of more finely coloured fur, than his fellows. There is not infrequently, also, one that proves to be much more sagacious and adaptable than his fellows. Once in awhile such exceptional strength and such exceptional intelligence may be combined in one individual. This combination is apt to result in just such a fox as I have made the hero of my story.The incidents in the career of this particular fox are not only consistent with the known characteristics and capacities of the fox family, but there is authentic record of them all in the accounts of careful observers. Every one of these experiences has befallen some red fox in the past, and may befall other red foxes in the future. There is no instance of intelligence, adaptability, or foresight given here that is not abundantly attested by the observations of persons who know how to observe accurately. In regard to such points, I have been careful to keep well within the boundaries of fact. As for any emotions which Red Fox may once in a great while seem to display, these may safely be accepted by the most cautious as fox emotions, not as human emotions. In so far as man is himself an animal, he is subject to and impelled by many emotions which he must share with not a few other members of the animal kingdom. Any full presentation of an individual animal of one of the more highly developed species must depict certain emotions not altogether unlike those which a human being might experience under like conditions. To do this is not by any means, as some hasty critics would have it, to ascribe human emotions to the lower animals.C. G. D. R. Fredericton, N. B., August, 1905.CONTENTS“The Price of His Life”The Lessons of the WildBlack Marks and BirchingsAlone in the WorldMating and MasteryBurning Spur and Blinding ClawThe Foiling of the TrapsSome Little People of the SnowThe Fooling of the MongrelsThe Presumption of Black MinkA Royal MarauderA Winged InvasionThe Yellow ThirstThe Red Scourge of the ForestThe Worrying of Red BuckIn the Hands of the EnemyUnder Alien SkiesThe Bell-mouthed PackTriumphA List of the Full-Page Drawings in the Book“Red Fox, meanwhile, had been watching the whole scene from that safe little ledge of rock” (See page 168)“For a little distance the fox followed its channel”“The fox stepped out upon the stones”“Slower and slower he went”“Night after night . . . the high shrill barking of a she fox was heard”“The puppy flung himself upon it without a sign of fear”“He ran up the nearest tree”“Learned to steal up and catch the brooding partridge”“He crouched, tense with anticipation”“Red Fox, sitting solitary on his knoll, heard the noise of the chase”“They all three turned and glanced back”“Glaring eyes, long tail fluffed out, and high-arched back”“He became panic-stricken, and fell to a violent kicking and struggling”“One surly old woodchuck . . . went so far as to establish himself in the door of the burrow”“Creeping with indescribable stealth around the roots of a huge beech-tree”“Delivered another of those daunting spur strokes”“The owl swooped, and struck”“She revealed a small, dark, menacing thing”“In the trap a mink was held, caught by both front feet”“He dug his powerful claws into the snow”“Red Fox rose lightly on his hind legs, . . . and pulled it down”“He caught sight of

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Fables, Children, poets, homely, Fox and Grapes, Wolf and Lamb, Dog and his ShadowPREFACETHE good fortune which has attended the earlier edition of this book is a proof that there is less occasion now than formerly to plead the cause of fables for use in elementary schools. And yet their value is still too little recognized. The homely wisdom, which the fables represent so aptly, was a more common possession of intelligent people of a generation or two ago than it is at the present time. It had then a better chance of being passed on by natural tradition than is now the case among the less homogeneous parentage of our school children. And there has never been a greater need than now for the kind of seed-sowing for character that is afforded by this means. As in the troubled times in Greece in Æsop’s day, twenty-five centuries ago, moral teaching to be salutary must be largely shorn of didactic implications and veiled with wit and satire. This insures its most vital working wherever its teaching is pertinent. To be whipped, warned, shamed, or encouraged, and so corrected, over the heads of animals as they are represented in the expression of their native traits, is the least offensive way that can fall to a person’s lot. Among several hundred episodes, knowledge of which is acquired in childhood as a part of an educational routine, most conservative estimates would allow for large, substantial results in practical wit and wisdom, to be reaped as later life calls for them.It is well recognized by scholars, and should be taught to children, that not all the fables attributed to Æsop are of so early a date. Imitations of his genius all along the centuries have masqueraded under his name. Facts about him appear in the Introduction.No occasion has been found to change in this edition the style of presentation so highly approved in the original one; but, as a considerable number of the stories, especially in the earlier pages of the book, are amplified somewhat in language form to accommodate them to the needs of children unfamiliar with the animals portrayed, it has been thought wise to present these in the briefer form in which they are generally known to adult readers. These are to be found in an Appendix to the present volume. The ingenious teacher will find numerous ways in which this duplication of stories may be turned to account. Comparison of the two forms will suggest many exercises to be performed by the pupils themselves, in which the longer forms of the fables may be built up from the shorter forms, and vice versa. The teacher who is interested in dramatic work will find also that many of the fables will make excellent material for dramatic presentation in the classroom.THE HISTORY OF FABLEMODERN versions of Æsop go back no further than 480 A.D. In their earliest use they are related to the folklore current among all primitive peoples. This folklore had risen in Greece to the rank of literary form a thousand years before the above-mentioned revival in Germany, France, and England. As the creation of Æsop it was the answer to a need for trenchant, but veiled, characterization of men and measures in the dangerous times of the Tyrants. In mirth-provoking utterances, quite apart from personal criticism, things could be intimated with all the force of specific judgments, yet in such veiled form that to resent them was tacit confession that they applied. Later on, when free speech became safer, the grammarians and rhetoricians raised these clever, pithy stories to the literary form they have since maintained.There is for Æsop’s Fables no authorized original version. Always, it appears, they were subject to interpolations and special versions. They took on metrical forms in Latin, and in later times in French. It is the particular distinction of a real fable that it bears this amplification, yet can at any time and from any true version shake off the accessories of particular phrasing and in its bare facts meet

"THE author, having come across a copy of Waterton's "Wanderings in British Guiana," was so much impressed with it that he "went to Demerara, well equipped with sketchbooks and colour-box, and wandered through the jungle, the splendid, colourful, weird, living jungle." Having sailed up the great rivers to make detailed studies of the landscape and to watch the timid wild creatures come stealthily forth from their hiding-places, he tells us that he climbed up among the tangle of lianas into the very roof of the jungle until he could look out and watch the sun set over it, and watch the birds and beasts of the day disappear whilst the night-wanderers came forth. We are not told how long and how often he stopped there, but he cannot have wasted his opportunities, else, with more luck than is enjoyed by other ardent naturalists in a tropical forest, he could not have watched so many scenes from start to finish which he describes in his pleasantly written chapters."