Excerpt from Scenes With the Hunter and the Trapper in Many Lands: Or Stories of Adventures With Wild Animals It seems to me, therefore, that a book recording some of the most stirring achievements of men in their prolonged contest with wild animals may be not only interesting but useful - that it will not only amuse but teach. It is some thing gained when a boy learns to prize and imitate the manly virtues; and such stories as are set forth in the fol lowing pages will help the young reader to this valuable lesson. They are all true stories, and I have carefully re frained from embroidering them with sensational details. Collected from a variety of sources, they are necessarily diversified in tone and character; but not one of them is unwholesome reading. For the sake of securing a certain degree of homogeneity, I have strung them together on a simple thread of narration, suggested by a boyish experience of my own. Further, they are associated with the chief facts in the natural history of the animals to which they relate; so that, to some extent, my little book may be ex pected to quicken its reader's interest in zoological studies. But, of course, it is intended to solicit the patronage of the juvenile public primarily and chiefly as a record of Adventures with Wild Animals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.