The Oxford book of American Essays
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Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones.
The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.
I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights, — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor ; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pasture early in the spring and boldly 154 American Essays swims the river, a cold, gray tide, twenty-five or thirty rods' wide, swo...llen by the melted snow. It is the buffalo crossing the Mississippi. This exploit confers some dignity on the herd in my eyes, — already dignified. The seeds of instinct are preserved under the thick hides of cattle and horses, like seeds in the bowels of the earth, an indefinite period.
Any sportiveness in cattle is unexpected. I saw one day a herd of a dozen bullocks and cows running about and frisking in unwieldy sport, like huge rats, even like kittens.
They shook their heads, raised their tails, and rushed up and down a hill, and I perceived by their horns, as well as by their activity, their relation to the deer tribe.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones.
The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.
I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights, — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor ; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pasture early in the spring and boldly 154 American Essays swims the river, a cold, gray tide, twenty-five or thirty rods' wide, swo...llen by the melted snow. It is the buffalo crossing the Mississippi. This exploit confers some dignity on the herd in my eyes, — already dignified. The seeds of instinct are preserved under the thick hides of cattle and horses, like seeds in the bowels of the earth, an indefinite period.
Any sportiveness in cattle is unexpected. I saw one day a herd of a dozen bullocks and cows running about and frisking in unwieldy sport, like huge rats, even like kittens.
They shook their heads, raised their tails, and rushed up and down a hill, and I perceived by their horns, as well as by their activity, their relation to the deer tribe.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 to read onlineMoreLess
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