Excerpt from A Year in the Fields: Selections From the Writings of John Burroughs Among the pleasantest of my experiences I remember the evenings I spent in the little bark-covered study at Riverby, as Mr. Burroughs has named his fruit farm on the Hudson. The open fire blazed cheerfully, and the Chilly blackness of the outside night was forgotten. I had my chair at one side of the hearth, while on the other side sat Mr. Burroughs with a big cat in his lap, and the conditions seemed perfect for a de lightful evening of thinking and talking with no hurry and no worry. 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.