Stránka:ets biographical sketch 1925.djvu/13

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…well say that he is seen at his best before a council fire of the Woodcraft folk, either in telling a wild tale of Indian scouting, showing how the wolf goes through the woods, or doing a story-dance of the Redfolk.

The men of the platform, both in England and America, rank him as one of the stars. It is said that next after Mark Twain and Beecher, Seton has made the greatest success of the “fone man, one night stand”. Three thousand times has he lectured in furtherance of his dream life — the Woodcraft ideal, of which the wild life is a part; thirty volumes has he published, and it is popularly admitted that from St. John’s to San Diego, there is no American writer more completely enshrined in the hearts of the children to-day than is Ernest Thompson Seton, the creator of Lobo, Johnny Bear, and Molly Cottontail.