The Face of the Fields

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Dallas Lore Sharp. The Face of the Fields

The Face of the Fields

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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.

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