Meadow and Mountain 



The bunch-grass, the blue-eyed-grass, the knot-grass, 

 the gramma-grass, and the famous Buffalo-grass all are 

 plants of the Western prairies. Close to the ground the stem 

 of this last is as succulent and sweet as the sugar-cane. Its 

 root runs down to somewhere this side of China. Pitch your 

 tent for a day on the open prairie and hear the wind sing, and 

 whisper, and moan, and sigh among these magic meadows 

 of the grassy wild. 



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