432 DEBRIS. 



DEBRIS. 



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

 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." Geo. Qeddes. 



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



" The grasses are the foundation of all agriculture." 



" He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." 23d Psalm. 



"A water meadow is the triumph of agricultural art." Pusey in Jour. 

 Roy. Ag. Soe., 1849. 



