Show EARLY HEARD CALL OF WILD ahn mule muir great naturalist showed hla his sent bent in the Eari last year of we HI long life when I 1 was a boy in scotland I 1 waa fond of everything that was wild and all my life ive been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures wrote john muir aluir in the atlantic fortunately around my native town of dunbar Dun liar by the stormy h north sea there was no lack of wildness though most of tho the land lay in smooth cultivation with red blooded playmates wild aa myself I 1 loved to wander in III the fields to hear the birds sing and along the seashore to guze gate and wonder at the shells and seaweeds eels and crabs in the poola among the rocks when the tide was low and best of all in glorious storms to watch the waves thundering on tho the black headlands and craggy ruins of tho the old dunbar castle when the sea and the sky the waves and tho the clouds were mingled together as ono one after I 1 was five or six years old I 1 ran away to the Sea seashore or the fields almost every saturday and every day in the school vacations except sundays though solemnly warned that I 1 must play at home irk in tl tho a garden a r and back yard lest I 1 should le learn n to think bad thoughts though ti and say bad words all in vain vain in spite ot of the sure sore punish punishments ments that followed like shadows the natural inherited wildness in our blood ran true on oil its glorious course as invincible und unstoppable as the stars |