Excerpt from The Trail to the Woods How enticing to the feet of childhood, especially to those of a boy, is the trail that leads to the forest! It may be along an old wood road choked with grasses and plantain and bordered with brambles and weeds, or by a crooked cow path, twisting and turning, but the way is that to deep delight, and the heart of the child is glad as he journeys. O the sweet wildwood, with its incense of pine and of balsam, with its ferns, mosses, and lichens, with its rustle of leaves, sighing of zephyrs, and its sense of infinite peace! How it folds its green arms about you, soothing your fevered mind with its own deep languor, breathing a benediction sweet as the sleep of childhood! What couches of plush or velvet are as cool and inviting as the moss-covered knolls of the forest, where I lay my tired head upon the breast of my mother, Nature, and am a little child again, full of hope and trust and infinite yearning? 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.