The Pulaskian., 1920-05-06

give the boys chance to go in a. swimming, for out there is hole of water noted amongst all the boys of l the neighborhood as one of the finest swimming places ever. Then it re- turns to the road and crosses it a. time or two before emptying into lFourche Bayou, just above the Mabel vale bridge on the upper Mabelyille road
 There are blackberries in bloom be- side it, which indicates that this should be the last of our cold weather, also maple. hazel brush. sweetgum, pine, sycamore. oak, walnut, hickory, blackgum, dogwood, etc About half way up this stretch of road I turned up a dry gulch and in ten steps came to a nice litle running branch of water which sank into a lot of loose rock and disappeared under the road. T have been travelling this road for three years and have always wanted to climb to the top of the ridge to my right and as I knew of two or three places just ahead where could get good dinner I decided to do so this time. When I reached what appeared to be the top I saw that the creek flowed through a very narrow valley here, or a gap in the hill. and that i there was another ridge on the other side of it. Continuing on I saw had made the ascent at exactly the right place. for I reached the top right at the end of another ridge which ran straight away in front of me. Con- tinuing further I could see a fine val f ley of land ahead of me along the road, the homes of Mrs. Norman and 1 the Cleahornss I followed this ridge a little way and then turned to my right. Had I kept on, I learned after wards that I would have come to the horseshoe, a famous hill just exactly like a horseshoe, duplicating the ealks and all As I descended I came to a pile of rock and reappeaFed again lower down. I rightly concluded that it was the branch I have already de scribed At one place it reappeared as a nice spring surrounded by the prettiest ferns ever saw. I cut three pretty three-foot fronds for the little Norman girl These were the first I eye. saw in bloom. The bloom is l long ugly brown tassel When I reached Mrs. Norman's her girls al- ready had some ferns set ont, which l they secured at the same spring where found mine. Right at the end of the ridge. in sight of the road, is high rock bluff, in which are two large cave like openings, which are capable of affording shelter in a time of storm.
 At Mrs. Norman's I got the best country ham for dinner have tasted this year Mrs. Norman runs dairy and feeds her waste milk to her hogs and so has plenty of them for home use and to sell. She has one of the finest iron springs in the county. The big three-foot tile does not hold as much water as it should because crayfish got in and undermined it. There are four springs on this place, which is about eleven and one-half miles from Little Rock.
 Her girls gave me several rocks, which they found on a recent visit to their sister in Mississippi, who was formerly one of our associate editors She is now Mrs. c. H. Henderson of Coldwater. Miss. Her mother is send ing the Pulaskian to her for the com ing year One of the rocks has a per feet little triangular flag in it.
 All this part of the county I have been in for the last two weeks has a white and rose quartz soil and looks very poor, but when I saw the finest Irish potatoes and corn I have seen this year growing on it I concluded it was rich, and so it is, but it is drouthy and can not stand too much dry weather. Some of this land in cultivation has so many rocks on it that you can not see any soil in a whole field.
 At John McKenzie's I was given some Indian bread, which he plowed up in rich bottom field on Fourche Bayou. It looks like rotten wood and grows to the size of mans head It has neither leaves, vines nor stems, so far as he knows, yet it has palat- able taste and was pounded up and made into bread by the Indians If a way to nronapate if could ba found if