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You ask yourself with a certain inquisitiveness, "What am I going to find in this swamp?" and the result of your search is the answer to your question.

By no means do I wish to assert that the only way to obtain the added interest in new lands is through an acquaintance with the science of botany. There are other hobbies fullybas good if not possibly better.T The bird-lover, wandering through strange fields, his glasses fixed on unknown birds, his ears attentive to unfamiliar notes; the entymologist, brushing his net over bushes and looking at the unusual insects gathered in or capturing gorgeously winged butterflies; the geologist, looking at the mounds and ridges of a country landscape, evidences of the great ice sheet, or collecting strange fossils from the beds of rock; the conchologist, gathering curiously shaped shells on new beaches; or he who wanders through fields, picking up mushrooms of every description and identifying them and then tasting their edibility; all these experience that peculiar thrill of the collector and find the maximum of enjoyment in visiting new climes.

My advice therefore to all those who are seeking to get the most out of life is "Have a hobby." Find out what thing you are most interested in and learn all you can about it. The deeper you get into a subject, the more interested you become. For instance, buy a book on how to know the wild flowers, take a walk and gather as many different flowers as you can find, look them up in your book, press them, mount them on cardboard and label them, and then watch your collection grow. Soon you will have gathered all the commoner flowers in you vicinity and then you will search out peat bogs and sphagnum swamps filled with rare plants. And you will be surprised how rapidly the field unfolds itself before you. Last year within