The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-05-04
"BACk TO NATURE'-AND BACK.

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dank dark underbsh wherein the songs Of music roacd birds
the listening continues held sway your will
ing mind when the snowywic dog-wood and boomng black
berry bushes keep floating before you; when picture OF mpd
coursng rocks rounded by ccasces ripping through
countless ages simply refuses quit your field of vision and when
pretty scay graceful persist in bobbns up occasion
ally getting tangled up with the cruel little hook the end Of
the line which fancy YOU dangle before hcmw under the
circumstances nothing you do except try get
it out of your system by png the unsuspcng and in
You remember how TO be when you returned school
after spending the Christmas holidays home going party
every night and having gay times with the girls and boys There
you sat in the classroom listening the Prof dro his dry
asdust lecture but You really miles away living again
the jolly vacation days and dreaming OF the last evening with the
unutteraby lass left behind Now that's about the
pickle we're sit down and the old typewriter go
while cudge every nook and OF cranu for copy
which won't What else do but off six
pages of the only kind Of dope that we have in stock?
1t was some 200 miles east Of Chckasha in LcIorc county
not very far from the Kingdom of Arkansas that we pitched
tents at the confluence of Billie Creek and the Kamic river
-Four miles to the south the Kamc mountains clothed with
green TO the top while to the north and far the
could stretched away the Winding Stairs ridges scarcely less
lofty and less picturesque There midst of the forest
with all its wondous variety OF vegetable growth Towering
plants ferns pines that rose rs high rs 30 feet 5a elm
walnut hickory nut mulberry giant sycamore-thee in the Lap
OF nature lived the Simple life" for daysnnc care-iree
spirits bent upon fishing and such other recreation as can be
found only the great out-ofdoors "ar from maddcnng
crowds ignobc STRIFE BY day the banks with pole
hand padded the waters Of river and nearby lake or smashed
up and down the swiftly flowing creek with rod and reel by night
we sat beside the blazing camp fire and wappd tales and banded
osn or sang the songs OF long ago till srber stole
and then we buried ourselves beds of hay sleep
less sleep till sunrise The odor of frying bacon fish
rattle OF pans called forth into the crisp of another glorious
day. and then the story repeated till weary and
again gathered about the blazing logs What did that
the rains and the floods descended
the SKIN! 1t was all part of the game and didn't mind
we could dry clothes and maybe would be ghc
and they would bite better and another cloudy day dawned
we would still be happy.
In Le7lore county you a different Oklahoma from
what you have known dweer in the shortgrass country
clpn from TIM
up into farms of from fifty Rich enough they yield
good crops OF and but markets usually distant
the most primitive Some hogs but they bear
little resemblance to the Leavet-toye" breed being more
fusion IN the land which Joe Dews honored by selecting his
birthplace Cows and the horses and mules are
craWr Here and there sawmis where the timber worked
up o unoe Inc peope More genial hosptable folks could
not be found you search the country over they would
walk mile time to do favor for the stranger their midst
and despite the fact that theirs is not what would call
easy lot in e they to be contented happy people There
abundance OF fish in the numerous streams and the mountain
des are deer and WIKI turkeys or them hunt And Of
as everywhere else there oil under the ground-hey ondy
beheyeand some day railroad will tap the rich valley Of
Wmch now without transportation facilities and land will in
crease IN value and the Of the tiny farm will be rh There
as elsewhere folks live dreams Of the good things that just
ahead certain that all OF their hopes will not be disappointed
Tor theirs really land of wonderful and possibilities
It noteworthy fact that the counties southeastern part
o. e se showed gam in population when the last
taken while most Of the western counties slipped back
But back to the fishing part Of the story After Of life
III e woods ieag on fish and nature the grub doesn't
quite good and your crude bed begins grow harder and there
IS limit to the enjoyment which get wearing wet
cohng lh camp fire doesn't lose its magic charm but after
ABOUT sonuch feeding on them you begin feel that fish
the most appezng of human food You begin think more Of
e coy cottage at home and the broad dowy bed
hat come from your own Kitchen and of ALL of the le
woman and the baby left home The call the Wild
70 Whch you succunbed when you be loud
enough to hold and you become that civilized life
from which you fled geefuy isn't half bad And So with your
heart beating as happily when you on your great adj
venture you break and heed the call home sweet home
AS you enter the country the wdespreadng plains
and broad cultivated lands loom up Gods own contrv and
as you step from the ra Chcasa looks like Broadway
better is the beginning of thing than the ending" remarked
the wise Man OF the anents but you know that he would never
have SAID 1t he had spent days the woods and come hack
to ms own happy home Chckasha change that owes
zest TO vng We were happy get the grind and
were happy to come back to it. better hope as res
o our outing and the Joyous restf days we spent in the woods