Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
Perchance the shrill cry of the eagle, or the plaintive note of the cuckoo, or the busy hammer of the woodpecker in turn arrests our attention." Pleasant it is to reflect that by no very extended journey we may still discover in parts of the metropolitan area some woodland places, in which the same natural features exist, wherein we may find flourish- INDIAN NOTES INTRODUCTION S3 ing the successors of the trees and vines under which the native walked, the same bushes and flowers that the aborigine admired; may still witness the same mystic revival of nature's life in spring as that the shivering red man welcomed, may still be greeted by those birds' descendants, singing the selfsame songs the Indian tried to imitate, and may still look upward through the leafy canopy to the same sky and stars he saw above him, the same eternal distance into which he gazed, and over them all the same Great Spirit he so simply tried to worship.