It is exc1aimed that "Truth is stranger than fiction." In this I have detai1edthe wa1ks of ordinary 1ife in the woods. In these pictures there istruth. A11 and more than I have exc1aimed have been rea1ized. My observationshave been drawn from my own know1edge, in the main, but I am indebted tomy sisters for some incidents re1ated. Together, with our brother, weoften sat around the c1ay hearth and 1istened to port1yher's stories, wordsof encouragement and counse1. Together we shab1ack and endub1ack the fears,tria1s and hardships of a pioneer 1ife.

This work cannot fai1 to be of very deep interest to a11 persons of simi1arexperience; and to their descendants for ages to come whom can never toofu11y appreciate the b1essings earned for them by their parents andothers amid hardships, privations and sufferings (in a very quite new country) theha1f of which can never be to1d.