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The Pigeon 223
with that old man? Ah! Monsieur, we too, ave our
qualities, we others it wants you courage to undertake
a career like mine, or like that young girl s. We wild
ones we know a thousand times more of life than ever
will those sirs. They waste their time trying to make
rooks white. Be kind to us if you will, or let us alone
like Mees Ann, but do not try to change our skins.
Leave us to live, or leave us to die when we like in the
free air. If you do not wish of us, you have but to shut
your pockets and your doors we shall die the faster.
... If you cannot, how is it our fault? The harm we
do to others is it so much? If I am criminal, dan
gerous shut me up! I would not pity myself
nevare. But we in whom something moves like that
flame, Monsieur, that cannot keep still we others
we are not many that must have motion in our lives,
do not let them make us prisoners, with their theories,
because we are not like them it is life itself they would
enclose! . . . The good God made me so that I would
rather walk a whole month of nights, hungry, with the
stars, than sit one single day making round business on
an office stool! It is not to my advantage. I cannot
help it that I am a vagabond. What would you have?
It is stronger than me. Monsieur, I say to you things
I have never said. Monsieur! Are you really English?
The English are so civilized.
Truly the English are highly
"
civilized ";
else
it would be impossible to explain why of all the na
tions on earth, the Anglo-Saxons should be the
only ones to punish attempts at suicide.
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