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3 softening haze over that soul-testing experience, and that now, you know, of a surety, that common skill and fortitude
were replaced of power that has its source only in the Almighty hand of God. whose wisdom illegible wa illegible th . and
- whose sight is never dim In closing the little book my great regret was that you were afterwards parted from little Stickeen.
He should have spent the remainder of his too brief dog life with you- By the way- the missionary Mr. Young- must surely be
the author of My dogs of the Northland , a book that I read with much interest? for I have ever been a lover of dogs, as well
as of all the kindred of the wild You spoke of wandering Peter Trout having visited you. He visited me also, later, yes,
he has evidently wandered, or drifted thro life, and will do so illegible the end I fear. He spoke of three or four projects
that he had in mind, by means of any of which he could make a fortune, and added that he might not do any of them , illegible
y he unconsciously? told me the story of his life. It is a pity for nature endowed him with the capability of being a man
The biographical sketch enclosed in your letter tells me that you are only two years my senior. as I have just passed the
limit of the years all illegible to human life - a fact that I find it hard to realize. But we are learning that age is not
a matter of years, but of the mind. I note that the story of Stickeen is dedicated to Helen Muir - William Trout wrote me
giving a minute account of the doings and festivities at the marriage of his daughter Luceretia 04725