Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-12-29 | Page 4 | Philosophy of Range Recluse Told in 'Sheep'

i I Philosophy of Range Eange Recluse T Told ld ld- in S 'S Sheep ee Imposed Self Exile Gives Shepherd Book Material 1 Living the l lonely nely life re ot of a shepherd shep shep- hI h herd rd lod either cither r m makes n a man man z a 1 lunatic lIu U or or- ora a philosopher It 1 happens lappens pi tb that t. t It Il t turned Archer B. B mind to to- and tho result tC was tho production production of a 3 book tiU titled tilled d sim simply sliu- sliu ply l Sheep Those w who l read tead his lila ar articles in the Saturday Evening Po Post t will have hae Just a a hint bf the richness to be found In the later vol ol volume lime mc For For well over o ten years Archer B B. B a n. graduate o of the University sit sity L or of- Pennsylvania 1 h ha has b been eJi tending hl bin flocks on the tho South Dakota Da kota range in that time ho has lias encountered en cn en countered experiences experiences- tJ that tt vi would cold madden and he has lIas emerged a a philosopher Ho le has baa s lived Ina ina in a 3 tny cabin on wheels with Its bunk book bock shelves cs stove c lockers and collapsible table as snug as can be bc for months at a time titus he lie saw no friendly faces save tave those of or his lila collies and lila his horse horae With their h help lp he had to wat watch h hoer over o several hundred beings beings' as perverse perverse per per- verse as M the they arc are funny He had to prot protect ct his sheep from front wolves and coyotes cooles from starvation and from overeating from fOno snow and from roni panic pani When the devil was in thorn thom would 11 1 work eight en hours a a. day daYi a. a and when tho the sheep were Well ere on their good behavior he could tho little Dutch door of ot othis hI his hla house houS houSon on wheels and sitting where he lie could keep his hise ey eye e on thie he gIa gray backs back l browse one of or his hs fa favorite volumes In a a. casu casual l way was and with a dry range humor ho lie de describes the thc I n es that led hIm him to to turn his back back backon on city life liCe the tle mann manner r ot of his new v ex existence existence ex- ex and the adventures ludicrous ludi Judi- crous or trying that that- can an assail a guardian n of oC a a. thousand stubborn sheep His I-his story lorl is as as s old I as M Bethlehem and as RS fresh and bretz breezy as the American plains I Jin Mr Gilfillan in Is a Phi Beta Kappa I gono wrong wrong to lo use uso his own ox- ox He says lays When I left lert the h University of or Pennsylvania In I came to this country N North rth Dakota and bought a bunch of oC i h ep with my p IJ patrimony I Jo lot lost t thing even Ing through h mismanagement mismanage ment wont w to Chicago to a theologIcal theolog- theolog cal icat seminary for lor three years left just before graduation on account o of a loss of or faith In that particular brand came hack back to this country and went into the sheep business n again oln piny time I t grabbed th the stick Uck by bj tho the small end ns RS I should have ha done in Iii the first place I 1 have haYG gradually been getting a a. few v sheep hep of or m my own which I lease to my boss oss on shares each receiving half the he lambs lamb and half tho the woo wool Little Lit LU- tle le Brown Co Boston