Then will you feel that mankind are unhappy only as they 

 wander from the simplicity of nature and that we may regain 

 our lost paradise as soon as we have learned to love nature 

 more than art, and the heaven of such a place as this more 

 than the world of cities and palaces. — Wilson Flagg. 



THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



EDUCATION AND RECREATION 



Volume IV NOVEMBER 1911 Number 7 



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When the Funny Man Goes Farming 



By EDWARD F. BIGELOW, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Connecticut 



WANTED to know what 

 the funny man does when 

 he leaves the city and 

 w w a goes to the country for 

 fj&J \ farming. Those that are 

 lm& I to the country born are 

 inclined to laugh at the 

 city man, but it would seem especially 

 appropriate to laugh at the man who 

 has made us laugh. At the very best 

 there are some ridiculous things in 

 connection with the professional man's 

 entrance into the backwoods, to raise 

 chickens, cultivate pigs and, inciden- 

 tally, according to some magazines of 

 suburban or country life, to cancel tbe 

 mortage or to pay the rent. It must 

 be confessed that not every one has 

 ability enough to do even that sim- 

 ple little thing implied in raising house- 



hold supplies and not make a mess of 

 it. 



Mr. Frederick Opper, the well-known 

 cartoonist and comic artist of the "New 

 York American," has taken about 

 every subject under the sun on which 

 to be sarcastic or funny, and he is an 

 adept at both, and furnishes the ''New 

 York American" with three or four 

 cartoons a week besides two or three 

 pages of comic matter. It would be 

 interesting to picture such a man try- 

 ing to adapt his city born genius to 

 the exigencies of a country farm. So 

 I went to see him. The result was 

 surprising. I found that he was not 

 city born and bred, and when I learned 

 that I supposed, of course, that he was 

 making a great success at farming, but 

 to mv amazement I found that he docs 



Copyright 1911 by The Agassiz Association, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Conn. 



