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CHAPTER VI SNOW-SHOES AND FISH
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Around the great log fire that night Pat told Doctor Merriam about his trip and his impressions of city life, winding1 up with the emphatically expressed conviction that while it might be a good place to do business it was no place in which to live, and that he would rather have a cabin in the shadow of Old Baldy than a palace on Riverside Drive.
"So you don't envy Hal?" laughed the doctor.
"I do not!" roared Pat. "I wouldn't give the poorest muskrat2 pelt3 I ever took to change places with him."
"Oh, you young savage4!" cried the doctor. "Still, I share in a measure your feeling. I have lived in many cities, but you see here I am buried in the woods, and some of my friends wonder why. I'll tell you. It is because here I can live simply, unaffectedly, true to myself and to God. Here," he swept a hand toward the book-lined walls, "are my friends ready to give me of inspiration, comfort, advice, knowledge, whatever I demand or may need. They are not dead things, these books. They are living personalities5, which have enriched and are enriching the world. When you boys listen to me you are not listening just to an audible voice. You are listening to an expression of that invisible something that we call the spirit—the true personality. And so it is that the writer of a great or good book never dies. His spiritual expression is there on the printed page just as much as if he were giving expression to it in audible speech. So with all these great and wonderful men and women constantly about me how can I ever be lonely? And then when I step out-of-doors it is directly into the temple of God. His nearness and presence are manifest in every phase of nature. The trees are alive, some of them sleeping, but alive nevertheless, and others not even sleeping. Sometimes I wonder if the very rocks are not alive. The elements seemingly war with one another, but there is nothing mean or petty or base in the mighty6 struggle, as there invariably is in the conflict of human passions. The Indian sees the Great Spirit in the lightning, and hears him in the rushing wind and the thunder, and is not afraid, but bows in
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winding
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| n.绕,缠,绕组,线圈 | |
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muskrat
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| n.麝香鼠 | |
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pelt
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savage
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personalities
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| n. 诽谤,(对某人容貌、性格等所进行的)人身攻击; 人身攻击;人格, 个性, 名人( personality的名词复数 ) | |
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reverence
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civilized
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savages
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wink
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lumber
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astonishment
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heartily
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hearty
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thongs
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pointed
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hurrah
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bully
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chaff
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abruptly
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underpinning
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scrambled
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overlapping
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novices
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frantically
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smothered
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peal
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exertions
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jeered
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futile
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yelped
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evergreens
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scouts
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| 侦察员[机,舰]( scout的名词复数 ); 童子军; 搜索; 童子军成员 | |
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malice
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| n.恶意,怨恨,蓄意;[律]预谋 | |
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profanation
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radius
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utterly
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setback
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axe
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alder
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forefinger
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scatter
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neatly
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tapering
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flannel
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whetted
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boughs
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| 大树枝( bough的名词复数 ) | |
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basted
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drudgery
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watchfulness
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