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The Secret Trails

by Charles G. D. Roberts

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A bargain in pedigree pigs leads to trouble on a lonely forest path. In the opening story, the settlement of Lonesome Water sends Morgan Fluellyn to buy better livestock. He buys a black Berkshire boar whose temper soon tests his own. Charles G. D. Roberts finds comedy in Fluellyn's fierce pride and gives the animal a calculating part in their struggle.

The Secret Trails collects ten short stories about animals, with settings that range from a farming settlement in Canada to a cabin crowded during a flood. In the cabin scene, two men contend with rabbits, deer and hungry bears while waiting for the water to fall. Their practical decisions and lively backwoods speech give the episode its humour. The stories offer readers of nature fiction a close view of encounters between people and animals, where fear, appetite and changes in the surroundings drive the action.

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Charles G. D. Roberts

Charles G. D. Roberts was a Canadian poet and prose writer especially associated with fiction about wild animals. Some Animal Stories gathers tales centered on creatures including panthers, ravens, porcupines, skunks, and a she-bear, presenting instinct and survival through closely observed narrative scenes.

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Pages
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