Show GOT JOHN BURROUGHS GOAT great naturalist admitted that iron wa wall it of treasury vault had bd B d effect ci c i him t it wits while sitting in ill of the iron wall of tile trea treasury quary ault ht at Withingto il that jolin burroughs guardian of the tile vault contained wrote lii ill first hook book wake robin in III book bonk it has hag been thought thou glit that lie got closer to nature than in any of tile hie others perhaps Ier haps I 1 did he said of it 1 I know I 1 was clover closer to it in longing Ion sIng that iron wall reacted on tile me mr I 1 furroughs realized of course cour the nece necessity sIty of money to provide the comforts of exi itryce and ills his bool brought him a handsome return and this recalls an incident of a fox to hunt in which lie and ills his brother elien joined about a dozen laari ago elicit burroughs lived at hobart in the catskills and on this particular hunt the honors went ment to khen ellen who shot the fox at that time fox skins were worth about 5 and the successful brother relished telling of ills his success once when boosting boasting of it to a party of friends lie was mas halted by tills this front from brother adlin you yon have bragged about that fox foi hunt long enough you shot the fox and sold old the skin for sa 5 I 1 wrote a little account of tile the hunt and sold old it h t 1 11 I magazine for 75 73 so there you are ae |