Part 24 (2/2)

I THE LORD OF CREATION

”Oh, but--please Mr Man--ere here _first_!”

Was that the dor? Anyhohoever it was, I think he was ht, don't you? Mr Man, when he coet what he owes to theet what a waster he is hi

BRER BEAR GIVES MR MAN A PIECE OF HIS MIND

”Now just don't you overdo this Lord-of-Creation business, Mr Man,”

says a deep, growly voice (It hts as well as you! And if you'd tend to your work half as well as they've attended to theirs, for ages before you were born, this would be a better world to live in; a good deal better, and there'd be a lot o around

”And now that you've wakedelse

You hus are not only a hard lot, but a stupid lot You think you're hty sthe rest of us! But do you knohat _I_ think? I think if some of us--the bears or the beavers or the ants, for example--had had half your chance they'd have been twice as s at you, the way Mr Beard showed once in one of those funny pictures of his”

[Illustration: HUNTING THAT DOESN'T HURT

Hunting with a gun is great sport But now you know froood the animals do in the world you may not like so well to kill the that is just as much fun--with a camera This picture shows a boy in a a bulb; for the bird in the tree is exactly in front of the shutter of the caue in his head as well as a wise old head on his shoulders, and I ht when he s aren't anywhere near as bright, according to the chance they've had, as the bears and the beavers and the ants and the bees, and many others that could be named Why, do you know that in the whole history of the huht people, like Mr Shakespere and Mr Kipling, Mr

Archimedes and Mr Edison It was such men as these--not over two thousand or three thousand out of the s who have lived on the earth--that raised the rest up froe to where they are to-day

”Into the coarse dough of huenius has put solish writer puts it And then he goes on to say that if snakes and beasts of prey had been as clever as the bees and ants and beavers, men would have been exter on with their education, cliood deal faster than they have done

He says it--this Englishine Brer Bear going on, taking up where the Englishman leaves off

”In other words,” says Brer Bear, ”it was because the bees and ants and beavers went onany pointers to the wolves and the lions and the snakes, that you're still here, Mr Lord Man! That's part of the story of how you got to be lord of creation Now listen to the rest of it:[27]

[27] Here i fros of men were stolen fros were copied from the holes and tunnels burrowed by s they collected hints froes, the platforms built by apes, the habits of waterfowl, the beaver's dae, and the nests of birds In the round hut, which was made with branches and wattle-and-daub, stick nests were united to the plaster work of rock ood workman in the construction of mud walls does no es of their nest-building

”'Suppose pri one that grew aslant over a chasether in the middle of a ay, and then used this pier as a support for two tree trunks, whose far ends rested on the bank sides Neither of these ideas has more mother wit than that which has enabled ants to bore tunnels under running water, and toto each other in a suspension chain of their wee, brave bodies'”

HOW MAN HELPED HIMSELF TO OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS

So you see that isn't just Mr Bear's way of putting it; there are huree with Brer Bear and Brer Brangyn[28] For ood exa the best of his _opportunities_ or in giving his humble brothers a square deal