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Burroughs' own cast of mind, or else must be of a temperament that is capable of genuine sympathy with him, in order to find the real man. He withdraws into his shell before persons of uncongenial temperaments; to such he can never really speak they see Slabsides, but they don't see Burroughs. Mr. Burroughs is, however, never curt nor dis- courteous to any one. Unlike Thoreau, who " put the whole of nature between himself and his fellows, " Mr. Burroughs leads his 12 The Retreat of a Poet Natur...alist fellows to nature, although it is sometimes, doubtless, with the feeling that one can lead a horse to water but can't make him drink, for of all the sightseers that journey to Slab- sides there must of necessity be many that Oh and Ah a good deal, but never really get any farther in their study of nature than that. Still it can scarcely fail to be salutary even to these, to get away from the noise and the strife of everyday life in city and town, and see how sane, simple, and wholesome life is when it is lived in a sane and simple and wholesome way.
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