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Lathan A. Crandall. Days in the Open
Days in the Open
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I. THE BOY AND THE BROOK
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II. THE TWO BOYS
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III. THE TOWN-MEETING AT BLUE ROCK POOL
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IV. IN THE NORTH WOODS
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V. OVER THE SIMPLON PASS
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VI. ON SEA AND SHORE
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VII. AMONG THE NORTHERN PINES
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VIII. IN THE LAND OF NOD
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IX. ON BOTH COASTS
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X. ON MOOSEHEAD LAKE
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XI. AMONG THE CUT-THROATS OF LAKE CHELAN
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XII. CAMPING ON THE NEPIGON
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XIII. IN A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE KOOTENAY
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XIV. SKEGEMOG POINT
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XV. IN THE ALGOMA WOODS—AND BEFORE
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XVI. IN THE VALLEY OF THE DWYFOR
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XVII. BOY LIFE IN THE OPEN
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XVIII. THE BULLY OF THE UPPER OSWEGATCHIE
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XIX. OLLA PODRIDA
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Lathan A. Crandall
Published by Good Press, 2019
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It is more than probable that some dear people, if they have the patience to read thus far, will lay down the book in disgust, saying, “Cruel! Cruel! Boys should be taught never to take life unnecessarily.” The writer accepts their censure with all meekness, and assures them of his hearty sympathy. But he is writing of the boy in the open, the out-of-doors boy, the real boy, not of a becurled and anæmic male child, coddled and restrained and tutored until he is no more than a little manikin. And writing of the real boy as he has been, is, and evermore will be, it must be set down in all honesty that he loves the hunt.
But we have wandered a long way from that lowery day when grandfather said, “Boy, I can’t work in the hay-field today; what do you say to going over to the river fishing?” Now the boy had spent innumerable hours on the creek that flowed past the old farm-house, and had sought acquaintance with the bull-heads and horndace and eels for a mile in either direction, but the river he had fished only in his dreams. He had seen huge pickerel and giant perch which neighbours had exhibited as spoils from this wonderful stream, and in night visions he had walked along its banks and pulled out fish of enormous size and brilliant colouring. Now his dreams were to come true.
