| Show mu W mr a ni ce wc w 1 I 1 e aft owl 4 MR i M I 1 1 M RA 1 ram WO i gam ar w 7 I 1 z COUNTRY VERSUS CITY A cavalry ft at t D dwarf ase xam strone mi thank god we are going back to grant exclaimed corporal low liow ahei the order relieving him and his mate j from recruiting duty arrived denver Is the very devil to a man who la Is used to a troopers life an unending row of dreary houses bouses on an one side ax an unending row of still drearier houses on the other I 1 look at them and try to look beyond to see the rolling roiling prairies but cant do it everywhere there is nothing but people plodding sluggishly along carrying bundles or reading dull newspapers why dont men get out ont of towns and see something of life why do they want to stay cooped up within the four walls of a stuffy building forever and catch cold and drink whisky and quinine why do they want to read books when there are am the vastly more interesting pages of nature unfolding themselves every minute before their eyes if they would but go to where nature is unhampered I 1 the rhe life of a cavalryman may not be all pleasure but it Is infinitely freer and infinitely more wholesome than I 1 the life of the man of the city I 1 ask I 1 nothing better than my horse and the fresh air of grant however hot it may be in summer or however cold in I 1 winter deliver me from the microbes mic robes of civilization deliver me from the musk and frills of society give me a cactus plain in preference A man feels like a man when he be can stretch his arms without poking his fingers into a chandelier and can fill his lungs without inhaling a hous house emalda maida dust what good is a hundred thousand dollars when you have got to spend the interest on it and eat into the principle to pay drug bills and buy hothouse bouquets the perfume of a purple cactus blossom or one whiff of f a wild rose found after a ride of a dozen miles in the dawn beats all the odors of all the potted plants plant that a sickly city sun ever nourished I 1 and if they only give me the good sorrel nag I 1 had when I 1 was a private concluded corporal low who has been promoted since his stay in denver then to the he dogs with the city and may I 1 never see it again as long as I 1 live |
