Mainiacal independence

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“Henry {of Maine} was his own man: in his battered old truck, with tottering load of hay on it … he implied an old-fashioned resourcefulness and independence, which we would praise even if we could’t emulate.’’

— From “Of Moose and Moose Hunter,’’ by Franklin Burroughs, in his book of essays called Billy Watson’s Croker Sack