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The Seer of Slabsides ! 3 )f a w 3 0 0 a 9 n a 3 3 o n $ 7 ‘ 1 ’ 9 7 o s )r 3 N a ) a 3 3 9’ “ ’ 3 3 s a o 9 » 1 B ! DALLAS LORE SHARP , B OS! ON AN D N EW ! OR! HOU GH! ON MIFFLIN COMPAN! s fliner a b fiwe p r ess {tamb n ogt 192 1 SEE OF SLABSIDES R . ' ! H E SEER OF SLA BSI DES I “ ! H I S Slab si de s title , The Seer of , does not quite fit John Burroughs—the Bur -e r roughs I knew . He was a see . A ‘ lover of nature, he watched the ways of bird and beast ; a lover of life, he thought out and wrought out a serene human philosophy that made hi m it e a ch er and interpreter of the simple and the near at hand rather than of such things o ff w a s as are hidden and far . He alto h gether uman ; a poet, not a prophet ; a e gr at lover of the earth , of his portion of it in New York State, and of everything and everybody dwelling there with him . 5 3 4 m }; SLABSI DES He has added volumes to the area o f N e w St a t e °a n d York , peopled them with f — immortal olk little folk , bees , blue birds , speckled trout , and wild straw b chi cfl erries . He was y concerned with Sla b si d e s living at , or at Woodchuck Lodge , and with writing what he lived . He loved much , observed and inter r e t e d p much , speculated a little, but “ dreamed none at all . The Lover of Woodchuck Lodge I might have “ called him , rather than The Seer of ” i de s Sla b s . P ietro , the sculptor , has made him rest ing upon a boulder, his arm across his fore su n head , as his eyes, shielded from the , peer steadily into the future and the far w away . I sat ith the old naturalist on this same boulder . It was in October, and ! H E SEER OF SLABSIDES 5 they laid him beside it the following - f . April , on his eighty ourth birthday . I watched him shield his eyes with his a s arm , the sculptor has made him , and gaze far away over the valley to the roll Sk ing hills against the y, where his look lingered , sadly , wearily , for a moment at their vaunting youth and beauty ; then coming instantly back to the field belo w “ ! f us , he said This ield is as full of woodchucks as it was eighty years ago . I caught one right here yesterday . How ’ eternally interesting life is ! I ve studied ’ S the woodchuck all my life, and there no getting to the bottom of him . He knew , as I knew , that he might s never re t against this rock again . He had played upon it as a child . He now sleeps beside it . But so interesting was 6 TH E SEER OF SLABSIDES the simplest, the most familiar thing to e him , that the long , long twilight , alr ady filling the valley and creeping up toward w e him , still gave him a chance , as sat there, to watch the woodchuck slipping from his burro w . Had I been the sculp tor, I Should have made the old natural i st fla t lying on the round of that rock, he a r d his white a patch of lichen , his eyes peering from under his slouch hat over the top of the boulder at something near at hand at the woodchuck feed ing below in the pasture . w He was the simplest man I ever kne , simpler than a child ; for children are - o often self consci us and uninterested , whereas Burroughs ’ s interest!and curios ity grew with the years , and his direct ness, his spontaneity , his instant pleasure ! H E SEER OF SLABSI DES 7 and his constant joy in living , his utter naturalness and nai vete amounted to — genius . They were his genius and a — Sim i stumbling block to many a reader . ' lzd 5 13721713115 cum n t ur , or a thief to catch r e a thief, as we say ; and it certainly quires such a degree of simplicity to u m e r st a n d e w uS d Burroughs as f of possess . Not every author improves u pon per ! sonal acquaintance, but an actual isit with Burroughs seems almost necessary for the right approach to his books . e Matter and manner , the virtu s and faults of his writings , the very things he e did not write about , are all xplained in the presence o f a man of eighty -three who brings home a woodchuck f rom the field for dinner, and saves its pelt for a winter coat . And with me at dinner 8 THE SEER OF SLABSI D ES that day were other guests , a lover of Whitman from Bolton , England , a dis ti n u i she d g American artist, and others . o The country r ad , hardly more than a farm lane, shies up close to Wood i t chuck Lodge as goes by . Here on the vine- grown porch was the cot of the old naturalist, as close to the road as it could get . Burroughs loved those remote ancestral hills , and all the little folk who ha b i t a t e d m i n the with him . He was as retiring and shy as a song sparrow s who nest in the bushes , and Sings from the fence stake . No man loved his fel - low man more than Burroughs . Here in his cot he could watch the stars come out upon the mountain -tops and see the fires of dawn kindle where the stars had shone, and here, too , he could see every TH E SEER OF SLABSI DES 9 -b passer y and , without rising , for he had need to rest , he could reach out a hand of welcome to all who stopped on their n jour ey past . And everybody stopped . If he had no fresh woodchuck to serve them , he would l n have one out of a can , for no less his home than in h i s heart had he made provision for the coming guest . The stores of the village were far away , but there was no lack of canned woodchuck and hospitality in the Lodge . Few men ha v e ha d more friends or a wider range f of riends than Burroug hs . And months later , as I sat looking over the strange medley of them gathered at his funeral , I wondered at them , and asked myself what was it in this simple , childlike i man , th s lover of the bluebird , of the 10 . THE SEER OF SLABSI DES e arth on his breast and the sky on his back, that drew these great men and lit H e tle children about him . was ele mental . He kept his soul . And through t h e press men crowded up to touch him , and the virtue that went out from him restored to them their souls—their blue bird with the earth on its breast and the sky , the blue sky , on its back” I I A N D this same restoration I find in his books . John Burroughs began that long line of books by writing an essay for the ” Atlantic Monthly , entitled Expres ” sion , a somewhat Emersonian Ex pression , says its author, which was printed in the “ Atlantic for Novem 1 8 6 0 - ber , , sixty one years ago ; and in each of those sixty- one years he has not failed to publish one or more essays here “ where Expression led the way . Sixty- one years are not threescore and ten , being nine years short . Many men have lived and wrought for more than ’ threescore and ten years ;but Burroughs s “ s Atlantic year are unique . To write 1 2 THE SEER OF SLABSIDES f o r - without a break sixty one years , and ’ ’ e keep one s eye undimmed , on s natural ’ e f force unabat d , one s soul un agged and h u as fresh as dawn , is of itself a great man achievement . Only a f e w wee ks before his death he sent me a copy of the last book that he se e should through the press , and who shall say that “ Accepting the Universe ” lacks anything of the vigor or finish or freshness found in his earliest books ! It is philosophical , theological , indeed, in matter , and rather controversial in style ; its theme is like that of “ The Light of ” e Day , a th me his pen was ever touch ing , but nowhere with more largeness e and beauty !and inconsistency)than h re . e e e For Burroughs , though d ply r ligious , . an d was a poor theologian He hated cant, 14 ! H E SEER OF SLABSIDES o f f o r 1 8 6 0 whole page his diary . On ” 2 2 0 page of Accepting the Universe , - published sixty one years later , and only m f a short ti e be ore his death , we find this attempted answer So , when we ask, Is there design in Nature ! we must make clear what part o f or phase Nature we refer to . Can we sa y that the cosmos as a whole shows any desig n in our human sense of the word ! I think not .
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