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Another excellent nature book that is quite up to the high standard of "Ways of Wood Folk." The following sketches, like the "Ways of Wood Folk", are the result of many years of personal observation in the woods and fields. They are studies of animals, pure and simple, not of animals with human motives and imaginations. Indeed, it is hardly necessary for genuine interest to give human traits to the beasts. Any animal is interesting enough as an animal, and has character enough of his own, without borrowing anything from man—as one may easily find out by watching long enough. Most wild creatures have but small measure of gentleness in them, and that only by instinct and at short stated seasons. Hence I have given both sides and both kinds, the shadows and lights, the savagery as well as the gentleness of the wilderness creatures. It were pleasanter, to be sure, especially when you have been deeply touched by some exquisite bit of animal devotion, to let it go at that, and to carry with you henceforth an ideal creature. "Wilderness Ways" is written in the same intensely interesting style as its predecessor, "Ways of Wood Folk." The hidden life of the wilderness is here presented by stories gathered, not from books or hearsay, but from the author's personal contact with wild things of every description. "A hunter who can watch a herd of deer come toward him 'with small wish to use a rifle, as there was meat enough in camp,' is to be trusted by man as well as beast, and we wish that every boy who is interested in the wild folk of the woods - and what boy is not? - might make the acquaintance of Megaleep the Wanderer and Kagax the Bloodthirsty, and hear from one who has shared it of their life in the summer and the winter woods." -The Outlook "Mr. Long is one of the most interesting of the modern school of students and writers on nature study. He has a real love of the wild life, and has spent much time alone in the wilderness with the beasts and birds, and knows them intimately. He is an absolutely truthful witness, and reports wild creatures as they really are, disclosing the good and the bad. Therefore his books are always healthful, instructive and interesting. He does not carry over human attributes into the characters of the dumb brutes. There is enough that is interesting, fresh and suggestive in their ways and moods without adding to them or subtracting from them. Mr. Long's books are to be commended, unreservedly, as of the utmost value for supplementary reading. And the general reader who takes them up will not fail to read the whole from start to finish." -Education CONTENTS MEGALEEP THE WANDERER KILLOOLEET, LITTLE SWEET-VOICE KAGAX THE BLOODTHIRSTY KOOKOOSKOOS, WHO CATCHES THE WRONG RAT CHIGWOOLTZ THE FROG CLOUD WINGS THE EAGLE UPWEEKIS THE SHADOW HUKWEEM THE NIGHT VOICE GLOSSARY OF INDIAN NAMES

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Megaleep is the big woodland caribou of the northern wilderness. His Milicete name means The Wandering One, but it ought to mean the Mysterious and the Changeful as well. If you hear that he is bold and fearless, that is true; and if you are told that he is shy and wary and inapproachable, that is also true. For he is never the same two days in succession. At once shy and bold, solitary and gregarious; restless as a cloud, yet clinging to his feeding grounds, spite of wolves and hunters, till he leaves them of his own free will; wild as Kakagos the raven, but inquisitive as a blue jay,—he is the most fascinating and the least known of all the deer.

Reverend William Joseph Long (1866-1952) who wrote under the pen name Peter Rabbit was an American author. His works include: Ways of Wood Folk (1899), Wilderness Ways (1900), Secrets of the Woods (1901), Beasts of the Field (1901), School of the Woods (1902), Following the Deer (1903), Wood Folk at School (1903), Little Brother to the Bear, and other Animal Studies (1903), Northern Trails: Some Studies of Animal Life in the Far North (1905), A History of English Literature (1908), English Literature: Its History and its Significance (1909), American Literature (1913), Outlines of English and American Literature (1917), How Animals Talk, and Other Pleasant Studies of Birds and Beast (1919), Mother Nature: A Study of Animal Life and Death (1923), America: A History of Our Country (1923), Outlines of American Literature, With Readings (1925), Outlines of English Literature, With Readings (1925), Our Country (1929), The Spirit of the Wild (1956) and Wings of the Forest (1957).