"Two years ago I took a natcherlist out for a month, an' he was so tickled he said 'e'd send me a bunch o' books about bears an' wild things.

He did! I read 'em.

I laughed at first, an' then I got mad an' made a fire of 'em.

Bears is cur'ous.
There's a mighty lot of interestin' things to say about 'em without making a fool o' yo'rself.

There sure is!" Langdon nodded.
"One has to hunt and kill and hunt and kill for years before he discovers the real pleasure in big game stalking," he said slowly, looking into the fire.