Music of the Wild 



James, "For every kind of beasts, and of birds, 

 and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, 

 and hath l)een tamed of mankind." 



In most cases this word "tamed" should be 

 changed to "broken." When birds and beasts are 

 Caging trapped in their wild estate, caged and starved or 

 * ^ ' '' beaten into non-resistance or through familiarity 

 endure the 2;)resence of men ^vithout signs of fear, 

 they are saitl to be "tamed." In fact, they are 

 heart-broken for home, starving for natural diet, 

 and crazed for lack of space, so that they are 

 slowly dying, and too desolate to resist. Think of 

 a bird that has ranged the heavens from Canada 

 to Patagonia reduced to the hop from perch to 

 perch and the folded wing estate of a two by three 

 foot cage — and that is considered imusually large. 

 Or of a beast that has roamed the forest and marsh 

 for miles being confined inside bars where it can 

 not turn without touching steel. Is it any wonder 

 these "tamed" creatures kill when they have op- 

 portunity? Our laws ])rovide for tlie taming of 

 "wild" men in the same manner, and it is notice- 

 able that they, too, kill at the slightest chance for 

 escape, if they do not lose their reason and mur- 

 der the first person they meet. 



There is a shrul) fre(|uenting many of my 

 fence corners that has escajied art and that decora- 

 tors do not know. I think it has great possibilities. 

 It grows to the average height of fence-corner 



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