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Dallas Lore Sharp. The Face of the Fields
The Face of the Fields
Table of Contents
THE FACE OF THE FIELDS
TURTLE EGGS FOR AGASSIZ
THE EDGE OF NIGHT
THE SCARCITY OF SKUNKS
THE NATURE-WRITER
JOHN BURROUGHS
HUNTING THE SNOW
THE CLAM FARM: A CASE OF CONSERVATION
THE COMMUTER’S THANKSGIVING
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Dallas Lore Sharp
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“Cab and car and carriage we reckoned into our time-table; but what we didn’t figure on was the turtle.” And he paused abruptly.
“Young man,” he went on, his shaggy brows and spectacles hardly hiding the twinkle in the eyes that were bent severely upon me, “young man, when you go after turtle eggs, take into account the turtle. No! no! that’s bad advice. Youth never reckons on the turtle—and youth seldom ought to. Only old age does that; and old age would never have got those turtle eggs to Agassiz.
