Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-07-01

When the stack is nearly finished, only
a strong man can pitch up fork tull OF
hay; and it needs some practice to use
the long forks which are required when
the rick has nearly reached TO its fullest
height What a delicious smell of new
mown hay there will be in every room Of
:hat old farmhouse for days after the
stacks are finished we almost long to
take up our lodgings there for a
week or two for the sake of the fragrance.
Ard there, in the ''home close" as 1T is
called, sits the milkmaid on her three
legged stool, which she hides somewhere
under the ledge, that she may not have
to carry it to and fro every time that she
goes to milk, talking to her COW while
she is milking as if it understood her, for
the flies make it is restless, and she Is
fearful that it may.lick over the contents
OF her pail. Now she breaks forth into
song. unconscious that she is overheard
the burthen of which is that her lover
may be true, ending with wish that she
were linnet, - to sing her love TO rest
while he, wearied with his days labor,
viii not require, but will begin.to snore a
minute after his tired head presses the
pillow
But we cannot leave the milkmaid,
surrounded with the smell Of new-mown
hay, without taking a final glance at the
! grasses and when we state thai there are
already upwards Of two thousand varic
| ties known and named, and that the dis
I coyerIes of every year continue to add 10
/ the number, it will be seen that the space
/ OF a large volume would be required only
/ to enumermate the different classes into
which they are divided. Our Saxon
foretathers had no other name for grass
than that we still retain, though they
made many pleasant allusions to it in de
scribing the Iabors of the months-such
as grass-month, milk-month, mow-month,
hay-month, and alter-month, or the
month after the hay was harvested. AZ
tcr-month is a word still in use, though
now applied to the second crop of grass,
which springs up after the hay-icId has
been cleared.
None are fondcr than EnglisLmcn OF
seeing bit Of grass before their doors.
Look at the retired old citizen, who spent
the best years of his life poring over led
gers in some half-hghted office in the
neighborhood of the Bank how de-
lighted he is with tie little grass-plat
which the window he spends over it, pat
ting it down with his spade, smoothing ii
with his garden-rollcr STOPPING down
until his aged back aches, while clipping
it with his shcers; then standing at q
distance TO admire it; then calling his
dear Old wife out TO see how gree,
and pretty it looks. 1t keeps him il
health, for in attending to it he finds both
amusement ana exercise; and perhaps
the happiest moments of his life are those
passed in watching his grandchildren rol
over 1t, while his married sons anl
daughters sit smiling by his side. Hun
dreds of such men, and many such spot:
lie scattered beside the roads that rur
every way through the great metropolitan
sui bs; and it is pleasant, when return.
ing from walk through the dusty road,
OF June, to peep over the low walls, ol
through The palisades, and see happ,
groups sitting in the cool of the cvennc
by the bits of Grass before their doors
and which they call q going out on til,
lawn. - -CiQltbcjS