Ulysses and His Woodland Zoo

Nature has been called “the effect whose cause is God.” Ulysses became an integral part of this effect and, in spite of the fact that he considered himself the world’s top bumbler-often with plenty of reason-he proved himself indispensable to the Woodland World into which he characteristically stumbled. In the world of man, Ulysses blundered constantly. However, in the world of the forest where he surprisingly became winter caretaker and lone occupant of an isolated hunter’s lodge, he attained dignity, wisdom and assurance as he employed every faculty of his sense and opened his heart to its mysteries and its beauty-and its animal residents. During that winter in his beloved woods he acquired his amazing wild zoo including a pugilistic crippled antelope buck, an injured bird, a lost beagle, a rabbit saved from a weasel and a baleful bobcat! He also acquired a dangerous human enemy.