GOD’S COUNTRY
The Trail to Happiness
By
JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD
Author of
The Valley of Silent Men
The River’s End, etc.
NEW YORK
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
MCMXXI
Copyright, 1921, by
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
All rights reserved, including that of translation
into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The Quinn & Boden Company
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RAHWAY NEW JERSEY
The Four Trails
to Happiness
| PAGE | |
| The First Trail | |
| MY SECRET OF HAPPINESS | 3 |
| The Second Trail | |
| I BECOME A KILLER | 29 |
| The Third Trail | |
| MY BROTHERHOOD | 53 |
| The Fourth Trail | |
| THE ROAD TO FAITH | 83 |
The First Trail
MY SECRET OF HAPPINESS
The First Trail
MY SECRET OF HAPPINESS
To-night I am in a little cabin in theheart of a great wilderness. Outside it isdark. I can hear the wind sighing in the thickspruce tops. I hear the laughter of a streamout of which I took my supper of trout. ThePeople of the Night are awake, for a little whileago I heard a wolf howl, and, not far away, inan old stub, lives an owl that hoots at the lightin my window. I think it’s going to storm.There is a heaviness in the air, and, in thedrowse of it, the sweetness of distant rain.
I am strangely contented as I start the writingof this strangest of all the things I havewritten. I had never thought to give voice tothe things that I am about to put on paper; yethave I dreamed that every soul in the worldmight know of them. But the task has seemedtoo great for me, and I have kept them withinmyself, expecting them to live