SECRETS OF THE WOODS
BY
WILLIAM J. LONG

Wood Folk Series Book Three

1901


TO CH'GEEGEE-LOKH-SIS, "Little
Friend Ch'geegee," whose
coming makes the winter glad.


PREFACE

This little book is but another chapter in the shy 'wild life of
the fields and woods' of which "Ways of Wood Folk" and
"Wilderness Ways " were the beginning. It is given gladly in
answer to the call for more from those who have read the previous
volumes, and whose letters are full of the spirit of kindness
and appreciation.

Many questions have come of late with these same letters;
chief of which is this: How shall one discover such things for
himself? how shall we, too, read the secrets of the Wood Folk?
There is no space here to answer, to describe the long
training, even if one could explain perfectly what is more or
less unconscious. I would only suggest that perhaps the real
reason why we see so little in the woods is the way we go through