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Title: Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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Shooting Across the Open Like an Arrow. The Kangfaroo Rat secret way to an underground world where hefinds safety from his foes—my first impressionwas not so very far astray. I had surely foundthe Little Folk, and nearer, better, and morehuman Little Folk than any in the nurserybooks. My chosen flinty track had led me onto Upper Arcadie at last. And now, when Ihear certain purblind folk talk of Fairies andBrownies as a race peculiar to the romanticparts of England, Ireland, or India, I think: You have been wasting your time readingbooks. You have never been on the shiftingCurrumpaw when the moon of the Mesas comesup to glint the river at its every bend, and bathethe hills in green and veil the shades in blue.You have not heard the moonlight music. Youhave not seen these moonbeams skip fromthistle-top and bayonet-spear to rest in peace atlast, as by appointment, on the smooth-sweptdancing-floor of a tiny race that visits this eartheach night, coming from nowhere, and disap-pearmg wit

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