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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 316
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... the world would hear, and-so revolting a denunciatory revelation of horrors that legislatures would at last effectively denounce, condemn and authoritatively prohibit vivisection. Simply because the cat VVILDLINGS OF THE COl'VE.'T WOOD. It is well occasionally to extricate oneself from the artificial conditions of town or city life and spend a few weeks in the country, a few days in the wood. There is still the dim solemn forest--not the Teutoberger Vald exactly--but still the forest, with tall oaks and ashes and maples towering above and down--intertwining with lindens, locusts, elms; thence with sumachs, underbrush and long dark grasses. And thro' all--in sighing thro' the grasses, in soughing thro' sumachs and birches, in long swish-swash spray-play thro' the towering trecs--revel the rain-fraught winds. How variously the_diPferent trees yield themselves to the storm! Gracefully, awkwardly: jestingly, hugely enjoying the horse-play--resistantly, indignant, defiant: cuddlingly, turning up silvery-protective underleaves, pleading woman-like in loveliness with the god of the storm; somber, unsoliciting, unlovely, unloved: different, distinct, individual as human hearts under the stormy sorrows of the years. are the trees under the revel of rain-fraught winds. the downpour, the good full fury of the storm. And all the little creatures of the convent wood----how they cuddle down, how still they wait! True to their own, tho', thro' all; mother-bird swaying with swaying nest--silently; flickers at home in the hollow trunk lit by the lightning; rabbits under the log. fast breathing, alert, distressed---ready to leap with their young to some upper-log Ararat, safe from the deluge: chipmunks...
