The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-10-04
FORTY-FOURTH YEAR.


long and narrow, alternate, and
at the base sheath cuIm. I speak
as one who hascome into contact
with the grass. It was during
the summer. 1 was visiting on
the farm aud had ridden the fam
lily buggy horse to the river to go
fishing. This old mare was high
strung sensitive soul, with her
true character hidnnder a meek
and lowly exterior. / hitched Bet
to a fence corner and gamboled
through rich meadow catching
grass-hoppers and katydids for
bait. Every pound that a man
puts on over two hundred, gives
the grasshopper, who has spoken
so insolentiy to the ant, the adj
vantage, but having IN a light
fantastic way captured enough
bait, 1 waded in. the crystal wa
ters of the Greenbrier, and ang-
ling IN its Iimpid flow, ketched a
considerable mess of bass.
Emerging from the waters, wet
and stiff, 1 found that old Bet had
broken the snaffie bit and throat
latch and was grazing on the SUBJ
ject of this essay. After many
querulous complainings, 1 cor
nered herr up and repaired the
bride by making bit out of the
remains of the broken leather
throat latch. 1 then tied the
string of bass to a ring in the sad
die, and mounting by the aid of
the always convenient stump
went jogging home. But as we
logged the string of bass logged
and the spines in the backs of
the bass raked the sides of the
old mare and she few in a frenzy
weaving magic circles in the
meadow, the dead grass tangling
her feet, and me trying to paci-
fy her. In time the leather bri-
die bit broke and soon after 1 hit
the grass, and the old mark kick
ed and jumped until the string
broke and put her out of her mis-
cry.
Blue grass has no proper calyx
nor corolla but its parts of fructi-
ication are enclosed in two SER
les of small bracts, which are
awned.
One time the COW of the POM
pous citizen did not come home.
1t was on Sunday and the COW
was town COW. The boy had
failed to find her and the house
hold department was in hysteric,
for if her bag should spoil she
had no udder. The dignified citi-
zen strolIed over town keeping
his eye skinned for the familiar
sight of the red COW. He found
her incidentally and drove her in
quiet, dlgnified and incidental
way through Main street which
was filled with people going to
church. As he reached the crow
ded portion of the village, the
hired girl at his distant home,
lifted up a melodious voice, in
herited from a long line of cattle
raising ancestors, and yodellel for
the COW. The faithful COW heard
the voice of her mistress and
bawled back her answer, After
that every step of the way was
marked by the call of the milk
maid the answering bawl OF the
COW. The dignifed citizen said
he had never been so mortified in
his life.
A marvellous thing about blue
grass is that one glume is devel-
oped for each spikelet. 1t is in
the glumeing therefore that we
find the marked difference dear to
the botanical heart. Its value
consists in the farinaceous albu-
men of its seeds causing cattle to
get fat and strong enough to
stand the ocean trip to Liverpool.
The thrifty people of that great
city eat the liver and other ottal
and sell the main parts of the
beeves, and this gives it the name
of Liverpool, fact not generally
known.
The poet has aptly remarged:
"Far called our bullocks fade
away" and some years ago Ed
ward VII then the prince OF
Wales, gave the export trade oi
Pocahontas county great impetus
by demanding in a loud tone OF
voice, in a London restaurant thai
he be served only with a Poca