432 DEBRIS. 



DEBRIS. 



After the house is finished, the debris often contains a iew 

 choice brick and some stone that did not seem to exactly fit in 

 anywhere. There is a barrel or so of good mortar, half a load of 

 sand, a little nice lumber, a bunch and a half of shingles, and 

 one of lath. There are remnants of nails and screws, paint, oil, 

 putty, glass, and wall-paper. Some of these are as good as any 

 employed in constructing the building. The most worthless 

 fragments are carted away and covered up or burned. 



So in writing a lecture, a story, or a book, there will often be 

 more or less surplus materials. A change in the plan, perhaps, 

 will make it seem best to leave out some things for want of a 

 suitable place to use them. 



I once supposed the following quotations among many other 

 things would certainly find a place in the former pages, either 

 as headings to chapter or paragraph or in some other place. 

 A few were thus used, but most were left over. Here are some 

 of the remnants : 



" Go to grass." 



" All flesh is grass.'* — Isaiah. 

 " The staff of life." — Said of wheat. 

 " Let the earth bring forth grass." — Leviticus. 

 " Sweet fields arrayed in living green." 

 " Grass is rather a good savings bank." — Joseph Harris. 

 " Grass is the pivotal crop of American agriculture." — Qeo. Qeddes. 

 " Grass is king among the crops of the earth." — Alex. Hyde. 

 " The grasses are the foundation of aU agriculture." 

 " He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." — ^3d Psalm. 

 " A water meadow is the triumph of agricultural art." — Pii^ey in Jour^ 

 Roy. Ag. Soc, ISAO. 



