ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
A SKETCH
Those who have known him longest tell that from his earliest days he has been possessed of a craze to be with the things of wild life, living it with the animals, as far as possible.
Yan, in the “Two Little Savages” is well known to be himself; at least, most of the adventures ascribed to Yan were personal experiences of Seton’s. There may have been some tooling and adapting, but the story is virtually an autobiography of his boyhood.
He was born at South Shields, England, Aug. 14, 1860, with every prospect of worldly comfort. But in 1865, the father lost his fortune, and having a family of ten sons, realized that the land of opportunity for them was over the sea. So he took them to live in the backwoods of Canada, near the town of Lindsay, Ontario. Here, in the primitive woods, Ernest had some chance, to learn the woodcraft ..text pokračuje
