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Title: The Watchers of the Trails
A Book of Animal Life

Author: Charles G. D. Roberts

Release Date: June 7, 2008 [EBook #25718]

Language: English

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The Watchers of the Trails

A Book of Animal Life

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[Illustration: "A HUGE BLACK BEAR STANDING IN THE TRAIL."
(_See page 177_)]

THE WATCHERS
OF THE TRAIL
A BOOK OF ANIMAL LIFE _by_

CHARLES G D ROBERTS

_Author of_

"_The Kindred of the Wild_," "_The Heart of the
Ancient Wood_," "_Barbara Ladd_," "_The Forge in
the Forest_," "_Poems_," _etc._

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_With many Illustrations by_

_CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL_

A. WESSELS COMPANY
MDCCCCVI NEW YORK

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_Copyright, 1904, by_
The S. S. McClure Co.

_Copyright, 1904, by_
Perry Mason Company

_Copyright, 1903, 1904, by_
Robert Howard Russell

_Copyright, 1903, by_
The Metropolitan Magazine Company

_Copyright, 1903, by_
The Success Company

_Copyright, 1902, 1903, by_
The Outing Publishing Company

_Copyright, 1902, by_
Frank Leslie Publishing House

_Copyright, 1904, by_
L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)
_All rights reserved_

Published, June, 1904

_Colonial Press_
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

To
My Fellow of the Wild
Ernest Thompson Seton

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Prefatory Note

In the preface to a former volume[1] I have endeavoured to trace the
development of the modern animal story and have indicated what
appeared to me to be its tendency and scope. It seems unnecessary to
add anything here but a few words of more personal application.

[Footnote 1: "The Kindred of the Wild."]

The stories of which this volume is mad