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Excerpt from The Way of the Wild Verily, this was no beast he would have taped four feet and a quarter from tip to tip, if you had worn chain-mail and dared to measure him no beast, I say, to handle with white-kid ball gloves. Things were possible from him, one felt, that were not possible of any other living creature awful things. Suddenly he looked up. The branches above him had stirred uneasily, as if an army were asleep there. And an army was - of wood - pigeons. Thousands upon thousands of wood-pigeons were asleep above his head, come from Heaven knows where, going to who could tell in the end? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.