Wild Animal Ways (Yesterday's Classics) by Seton Ernest Thompson

Author:Seton, Ernest Thompson [Seton, Ernest Thompson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nature
ISBN: 9781599153353
Publisher: Yesterday's Classics
Published: 2010-11-12T14:44:46.331000+00:00

Ye long to meet and know him, oh, ye Kindly Singing Woodsmen! Ye guarantee respect, yea, reverence, for the Dryad of the hollow trees! Would I might be your introducing guide!

I have sought, sought lovingly, to meet him in the low, wet woods of Kilder Creek. Many times have I put tempting corn in forks and other altars as my offering to the Ringtail. And the corn is always gone, I never know just how, but I see at divers times and trails the marks of that dexterous human-fingered paw, or the mussel shell with broken hinge, or the catfish fins, and know that still he dwells close by, that still he scoffs at bellowing hounds, nor has deep fear of any but the shameless axe that would steal his consecrated tree. What would I not give to have him let me see him as one sees a nearby Friend; but that is what he will not. All my privilege is this: to see the pattered pigmy human tracks when in the hours of morning sun I seek along the lake, or sometimes, when the autumn's night is black, I get the long-drawn rolling song, "Whill-ill-ill-a-loo, whill-ill-ill-a-loo, whill-a-loo," the love song of Way-atcha the Ringtail Coon-Racoon that wanders still, makes love and lives, like the remaining prophet of a bygone simple faith, that being true, will some time come again to rule, but is waiting, hiding, waiting now, till the fire has passed away.

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