Maybe it's a pity, but
it's the fact. I'll bet if you could ask them whether they'd
rather
sleep in a cave on your farm or be headliners in vaudeville,
they'd
tell you they were 'devoted to their art.'"
"Why!" exclaimed Kelly, "they're so far from nature that if they
didn't have that colored boy to comb and brush them twice a day
they'd be ashamed to look each other in the eyes."
"And another thing," continued Jackson, "trained animals love to
'show off.' They're children. Those bears ENJOY doing those
tricks.
They ENJOY the applause. They enjoy dancing to the 'Merry Widow
Waltz.' And if you lock them up in your jungle, they'll get so
homesick that they'll give a performance twice a day to the
squirrels and woodpeckers."
"It's just as hard to unlearn a thing as to learn it," said Kelly
sententiously. "You can't make a man who has learned to wear
shoes
enjoy going around in his bare feet."
"Rot!" cried Herrick. "Look at me. Didn't I love New York? I
loved
it so I never went to bed for fear I'd miss something. But when I
went 'Back to the Land,' did it take me long to fall in love with
the forests and the green fields? It took me a week.
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