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  can see- one is to teach, finish my requirements in summer ses4 
  sions(getting my M.A. in about ten years) and, if I have any 
  ambitions left, stagger on in the rear of the army of conser- 
  vationists we shall have by that time, or go on teaching with 
  my mind on what I would have liked to do. Do not misunderstand, 
  I have my duty as a family head and as a citizen to perform, 
  and shall do so regardless. But perhaps you know the joy of 
  doing work in which one is really Interested. 
 
        The other course is to find some friend of conservation 
 willing and able to see me through the training at the Game In- 
 stitute, on a proper repayment plan when I have found my job, 
 to the extent of some five or six hundred per year. That last 
 plan is one that has the point of permitting me to go on with 
 no delay, and is the only feasible one I can evolve. Bank loans 
 are possible, bu* worse than useless, as the note would come 
 due just when all the money had been spent, and none had yet 
 begun to come in. 
 
        There is one other possibility, more attractive, and 
 more unlikely than the last, and that is to find a job in the 
 Institute that would pay my expenses, or in some fteld of game 
 management that would give me the practical experience I need, 
 with enough salary to pay living expenses. That is highly un- 
 likely, however, as I have not the training to get such a job, 
 at least as far as I know. 
 
       What is your opinion, can the man to help me carry out 
 proposition number two be found? Is the last plan conceivable? 
 If so, practical? Could the proper man be convinced he was 
 advancing Conservation, and not bestowing philanthrophy? 
 
       Perhaps you see some more workable and satisfactory plan. 
 If so, I shall be practically overcome with gratitude. 
 
       All lightness aside, this thing is getting to be a serious 
problem. I may have been able to accept delay or defeat a year 
ago, but I am too wrapped up in this work to be able to take 
calmly an suggestion of such nature now. I am a Conservation- 
ist, heart and if possible, body. It follows as aý matter of 
reason that I can never be anything else with any degree of 
comfort or success. Raised in the woods, to leave them with 
regret, and return at any and every opportunity, Mother Nature 
is in my blood. I have been accused of being a mystic in that 
regard, by people too thickly covered with civilization's 
sticky white-wash, but I am not. I am merely a lover of Nature 
and her children. 
 
       Lest you begin t6 think me a Social misfit as well, I 
 stop to announce myself, 
 
                                Sincerely yours, 
 
 
W  0. NAGEL