Show COULD HEI HE HEED D CALL OF WILD Being His Own Boss This Lucky Man Listened to Appeal and Hied Him to Happiness A 4 flock of ot geese northward bound honked bonkEd wildly in their flight night His feet on his desk his window wIndo open to tho the breezes of ot the morning he heard tho the call For an nn hour he sat amid the conflicting con con- sounds ofa of a great city hurrying nb about ut Its work work nut But his thoughts were were miles away Ills eyes were dreamy The spell of the wild was upon him sHe t s lie He wandered In fertile ferUle fields awak- awak awakIng fag Ing ng to renewed life Ufe He TIe behold th the meadows lush with grass lie He sat Bat be- be beside b j be-j r side wide flowing rivers and tin tIny brooks whose waters rushed in foamy splendor from hilly heights above He wandered to wooded slopes with trees frees bud a-bud and wild flowers peeping from beneath dead leaves A peace was his which seldom came in his workaday existence in the land of ot pavement and and- beehive dwellings He TIe dreamed on Brook trout In speckled splendor roso rosto rose ros to his captivating hook Ca Camp p fires lib lit the darkness of his dream nl nI ht Theodor Theodor The Theodor odor of b burning pine wood and of sizzling siz sling trout and nd bacon filled his nos nos- y nos-y He TIe ate food such as his city chefs chets had bad never never learned to cook with an nn appetite his city stomach had lon long since lost In a n single hour he be dreamed more happiness than had been his for fora a decade He closed his desk Another hour found him grubbing in the recesses eCE 0 of 1 the attic By noon clad in beautifully ancient garments with a satchel in hl hiss his band hand and a fishing rod carefully Incased incased In In- cased in ina a waterproof cover under his arm he was wa at the railroad station A. A A half hour later he was on his way to tOj the wilds And a smile such as he had I not smiled in months graced his Ills i fea-i fea i 1 tures Lucky man mIlD I r He lIe w was s his own boss Milwaukee Journal |