New Walks in Old Ways 



call it. He stood some chance against 

 the red man's bow and arrow, but he 

 had about as much of a run for his ex- 

 istence when civilized men — mounted 

 on fleet horses, brought originally from 

 Europe — arrived with repeating Win- 

 chesters, and went after him, as a snow- 

 man would have in an open-hearth 

 steel furnace at Midvale. Somebody 

 stood in Hohenzollern's way also not 

 long ago. Belgium was the little weed 

 that had first to be eradicated before 

 the larger growth called France could 

 be reached. Both, from the Boche 

 standpoint, were peoples "out of 

 place." Down with them! 



Dandelions are weeds because, for 

 one thing, there are too many of them. 

 If they were rare, and difficult to pro- 

 pagate, they would have a page in 

 every seedsman's catalogue, and be 

 grown in the most aristocratic gar- 

 dens. The worst enemy I have to 

 contend with in trying to get a lawn 

 underneath the trees at Dumbiedykes 

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