THE FLAT-DWELLER

Once there was a tired Denizen of the Big Town whose home was at the

end of a Hallway in a Rabbit Warren known as the Minnehaha.

It was not a Tenement, because he had to pay $30 a Month for a

compressed Suite overlooking 640 acres of Gravel Roof.

Sitting back in his Morris Chair with his Feet on the tiny Radiator he

would read in the Sunday Paper all that Bunk about the Down-and-Outs of

the City hiking back to the Soil and making $8,000 a year raising

Radishes.

He saw the Pictures of the Waving Trees and the Growing Crops and the

oleaginous Natives and he yearned to get out where he wouldn't hear the

Trolleys in the Morning and the Kids could get Milk that came from a

Cow.

So he gave up his Job in the Box Factory and moved out to Jasper

Township and tackled Intensive Farming.

He had been Precinct Captain in the Ate Ward and by applying

Metropolitan Methods at the Yap Primaries he succeeded in breaking

into the Legislature and soon owned the Farm on which he lived and two

others besides.

MORAL: One may get close to Nature, even in the Country.

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