Behind Iron Bars 



that it is to be found in the case of the 

 happy grizzly. That the restless, fret- 

 ting creatures all around are only com- 

 mitting slow but certain suicide. Un- 

 fortunately perhaps the eagles and the 

 mountain lions of this world do not 

 yield their freedom easily. Set not up 

 therefore for their guidance the picture 

 of the bison basking and blinking in 

 the sun! All creatures cannot find con- 

 tent complete in chewing forever only 

 "the cud of sweet and bitter fancy." 

 Some are too highly organized for that. 

 Some cannot be satisfied with a life of 

 mere peanut-catching or playing day 

 by day with just an old dry bone. 

 Some require a little more than that 

 or think they do. Expect not there- 

 fore the deer to forget his native 

 forest haunts. Know that the keen 

 red fox will remember to his dying day 

 his silent moors and stony hills. Tell 

 not the mallard to stop dreaming of 

 wild rice and open water. And there 

 is ambition's kindred call in human 

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