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The Watchers of the Trails: A Book of Animal Life

by Charles G. D. Roberts

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Excerpt from The Watchers of the A Book of Animal the preface to a former volume 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.The stories of which this volume is made up are avowedly fiction. They are, at the same time, true, in that the material of which they are moulded consists of facts,—facts as precise as painstaking observation and anxious regard for truth can make them. Certain of the stories, of course, are...

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