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Not indolently soft, like that which sifts in green shadow through the leafage of a summer garden, but tense, alertly and mysteriously expectant, was the silence of the forest. It was somehow like a vast bubble of glass, blown to a fineness so tenuous that a small sound, were it but to strike the one preordained and mystic note, might shatter it down in loud ruin. Yet it had existed there flawless for generations, transmuting into its own quality all such infrequent and inconsequent disturbance as might arise from the far-off cry of the panther, or the thin chirp of the clambering nuthatch, the long, solemn calling of the taciturn moose, twice or thrice repeated under the round October moon, or the noise of some great wind roaring heavily in the remote tops of pine and birch and hemlock. Few and slender were the rays of sun that pierced down through those high tops. The air that washed the endless vistas of brown-green shadow was of a marvellous clarity, not blurred by any stain of dust or vapour. Its magical transparency was confusing to an eye not born and bred to it, making the far branches seem near, and the near twigs unreal, disturbing the accustomed perspective, and hinting of some elvish deception in familiar and apparent things.

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 [viii] 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.

These earliest observers of animal life were compelled by the necessities of the case to observe truly, if not deeply. Pitting their wits against those of their four-foot rivals, they had to know their antagonists, and respect them, in order to overcome them. But it was only the most salient characteristics of each species that concerned the practical observer. It was simple to remember that the tiger was cruel, the fox cunning, the wolf rapacious. And so, as advancing civilisation drew an ever widening line between man and the animals, and men became more and more engrossed in the interests of their own kind, the personalities of the wild creatures which they had once known so well became obscured to them, and the creatures themselves came to be regarded, for the purposes of literature, as types or symbols merely,—except in those cases, equally obstructive to exact observation, where they were revered as temporary tenements of the spirits of departed kinsfolk. The characters in that great beast-epic of the middle ages, “Reynard the Fox,” though far more elaborately limned than those which play their succinct rôles in the fables of Æsop, are at the same time in their elaboration far more alien to the truths of wild nature. Reynard, Isegrim, Bruin, and Greybeard have little resemblance to the fox, the wolf, the bear, and the badger, as patience, sympathy, and the camera reveal them to us to-day.

This collection includes 120 stories about many wild animals, such as wolves, bears, foxes, wild cats, deer etc. about their life and adventures:DO SEEK THEIR MEAT FROM GODTHE PERDU"THE YOUNG RAVENS THAT CALL UPON HIM"WITHIN SOUND OF THE SAWSTHE BUTT OF THE CAMPIN THE ACCIDENT WARDTHE ROMANCE OF AN OX-TEAMA TRAGEDY OF THE TIDESAT THE ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE LANDINGAN EXPERIENCE OF JABEZ BATTERPOLETHE STONE DOGTHE BARN ON THE MARSHCAPTAIN JOE AND JAMIESTRAYEDTHE EYE OF GLUSKÂPTHE BEAR THAT THOUGHT HE WAS A DOG THE TRAIL OF THE VANISHING HERDS A MASTER OF SUPPLY THE WHITE WOLF UP A TREE THE EYES IN THE BUSH THE RUNNERS OF THE HIGH PEAKSTHE POOL THE SHADOWS AND JOHN HATCH THE FISHER IN THE CHUTES THE ASSAULT OF WINGS THE CABIN DOOR A BASKET OF FISH BRANNIGAN'S MARY LAST BULL THE KING OF THE FLAMING HOOPS THE MONARCH OF PARK BARREN THE GRAY MASTER THE SUN-GAZER THE LORD OF THE GLASS HOUSE BACK TO THE WATER WORLD LONE WOLF THE BEAR'S FACE THE DUEL ON THE TRAIL THE VAGRANTS OF THE BARRENMACPHAIRRSON’S HAPPY FAMILYON BIG LONELYFROM BUCK TO BEAR AND BACKIN THE DEEP OF THE SNOWTHE GENTLING OF RED MCWHAMELINDY AND THE LYNXESMRS. GAMMIT’S PIGTHE BLACKWATER POTTHE IRON EDGE OF WINTERTHE GRIP IN DEEP HOLETHE NEST OF THE MALLARDMRS. GAMMIT AND THE PORCUPINESTHE BATTLE IN THE MISTMELINDY AND THE SPRING BEARTHE SUMMONS OF THE NORTH THE LAST BARRIER ANSWERERS TO THE CALL THE PRISONERS OF THE PITCHER-PLANT THE PROWLERS A STRANGER TO THE WILD WHEN THE LOGS COME DOWN A DUEL IN THE DEEP THE LITTLE TYRANT OF THE BURROWS THE RINGWAAK BUCK THE HERON IN THE REEDS IN THE DEEP OF THE SILENCES ON THE NIGHT TRAIL WHEN THE TIDE CAME OVER THE MARSHES UNDER THE ICE-ROOF THE TERROR OF THE AIR IN THE UNKNOWN DARK THE TERROR OF THE SEA CAVES THE HOUSE IN THE WATER THE WHITE-SLASHED BULL WHEN THE BLUEBERRIES ARE RIPE THE GLUTTON OF THE GREAT SNOW WHEN THE TRUCE OF THE WILD IS DONE THE WINDOW IN THE SHACK THE RETURN OF THE MOOSE FROM THE TEETH OF THE TIDE THE FIGHT AT THE WALLOW SONNY AND THE KID THE LEDGE ON BALD FACETHE EAGLECOCK-CROWTHE MORNING OF THE SILVER FROSTJIM, THE BACKWOODS POLICE DOG THE BLACK BOAR OF LONESOME WATER THE DOG THAT SAVED THE BRIDGE THE CALLING OF THE LOP-HORNED BULLTHE AIGRETTE THE CABIN IN THE FLOOD THE BROTHERS OF THE YOKE THE TRAILERS COCK-CROW THE LEDGE ON BALD FACE THE MORNING OF THE SILVER FROST THE FREEDOM OF THE BLACK-FACED RAM THE MASTER OF GOLDEN POOL THE RETURN TO THE TRAILS THE LITTLE WOLF OF THE POOL THE LITTLE WOLF OF THE AIR THE ALIEN OF THE WILD THE SILVER FROST BY THE WINTER TIDE THE RIVALS OF RINGWAAK THE DECOY THE LAUGH IN THE DARK THE KINGS OF THE INTERVALE THE KILL THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE SYCAMORE HORNS AND ANTLERS IN THE DEEP OF THE GRASS WHEN THE MOON IS OVER THE CORN THE TRUCE THE KEEPER OF THE WATER-GATE WHEN THE MOOSE COW CALLS THE PASSING OF THE BLACK WHELPS THE HOMEWARD TRAIL CHILDREN OF THE WILD

This edition includes a novel about life of a red fox and 36 short stories about different animals.Contents:Red Fox (a novel)The Moonlight TrailsThe Lord Of The AirWild MotherhoodThe Homesickness Of KehonkaSavoury MeatsThe Boy And HushwingA Treason Of NatureThe Haunter Of The Pine GloomsThe Watchers Of The Camp FireWhen Twilight Falls On The Stump LotsThe King Of The MamozekelIn Panoply Of SpearsDo Seek Their Meat From God"The Young Ravens That Call Upon Him"StrayedThe Watchers In The SwampQuills The IndifferentStripes The UnconcernedThe Black Mule Of AveluyStar-Nose Of The Under WaysKroof, The She-BearThe Initiation Of MirandaOn The Roof Of The WorldBlack SwampThe Isle Of BirdsThe Antlers Of The CaribouThe Sentry Of The Sedge-FlatsA Tree-Top AeronautThe TheftThe Tunnel RunnersA Torpedo In FeathersHow A Cat Played Robinson CrusoeLittle Bull Of The BarrensThe Tiger Of The SeaGray Lynx’s Last HuntingMothers Of The North

This book is an illustrated version of the original The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Charles G.D. Roberts. “The psychological processes of the animals are so simple, so obvious, in comparison with those of man, their actions flow so directly from their springs of impulse, that it is, as a rule, an easy matter to infer the motives which are at any one moment impelling them. In my desire to avoid alike the melodramatic, the visionary, and the sentimental, I have studied to keep well within the limits of safe inference. Where I may have seemed to state too confidently the motives underlying the special action of this or that animal, it will usually be found that the action itself is very fully presented; and it will, I think, be further found that the motive which I have here assumed affords the most reasonable, if not the only reasonable, explanation of that action.”

"Our chief writers of animal stories at this present day may be regarded as explorers of this unknown world, absorbed in charting its topography. They work, indeed, upon a substantial foundation of known facts. They are minutely scrupulous as to their natural history, and assiduous contributors to that science. But above all they are diligent in their search for the motive beneath the action. Their care is to catch the varying, illusive personalities which dwell back of the luminous brain windows of the dog, the horse, the deer, or wrap themselves in reserve behind the inscrutable eyes of all the cats, or sit aloof in the gaze of the hawk and the eagle. The animal story at its highest point of development is a psychological romance constructed on a framework of natural science." -Sir Charles G. D. Roberts "They will bear rereading many times. In purity and delicacy of diction, in wholesomeness and absence of the shadows of coarseness or brutality which have crept into some animal stories, and in lightness and freedom of action, Mr. Roberts' animal stories are unsurpassed." -The Dial "This is a romance, in the very best sense; conceived in the true poet's fancy, and wrought with an artist's skill....There is none of that sentimentality which we find in some animal stories. His lines of thought are higher; his sympathy with the animals really deeper. It is my deliberate judgment that no work has been done in this particular field, to equal that of this Canadian poet." -Outing "He has chosen to avoid the melodramatic, the visionary and the sentimental, writing always with restraint and an artist's respect for the dignity of his subject." -The Saturday Evening Post "Mr. Roberts knows his animals intimately and writes about them with understanding and reality." -The Continent "Few stories about animals have as strong a power to interest and entertain or carry as deep a conviction of their truth and reasonableness as those by Charles G. D. Roberts." -Chicago Tribune "What observation, what power of description is displayed in Charles G. D. Roberts''s latest volume of stories!" -The Bellman "Whoever loves the wilderness and its furred and feathered inhabitants is always glad to know of a new book by Charles G. D. Roberts, whose knowledge and sympathy with wild things is profound, but who never falls into that danger of humanizing his characters." -Springfield Republican "A great deal of keen observation has evidently gone into the making of these tales...city dwellers owe to this sort of book a debt which they probably will never sufficiently pay, and that is to read them." -Chicago Evening Post CONTENTS Do Seek their Meat from God "The Young Ravens that Call upon Him" Strayed The Watchers in the Swamp Quills the Indifferent Stripes the Unconcerned The Black Mule of Aveluy Star-Nose of the Under Ways Kroof, the She-Bear The Initiation of Miranda A Royal Marauder

illustrated : contains several original illustrationsThese 14 short stories about animals are superb examples of Roberts smooth storytelling style. Knows as the Father of Canadian Poetry, he loved to also write in prose about the wilderness and the personalities of the animals to be found there as well as the exciting things they are capable of. Bears, White Wolves, Lynxs, hawks and yes, cattle are just a few of the animals written about. Language: EnglishDrop Caps: yesSeparate chapters: yesKindle Superior Formatting: yesTable of Contents: yesLooking for other Art & Poetry Publishing ebook on Amazon!