COCKLEBURS AND SAND SPURS. 
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These spines stick out in all directions and readily 
fasten upon whomever or whatever comes along, when 
they leave the parent grass and are carried away. 
After a time they are picked off and thrown on the 
ground, or they fall off, and that is their way of travel- 
ing to find a place to grow. 
Dogs often get them in their feet, and then they have 
a hard time picking them out, for of course the poor 
things cannot walk with sand spurs between their toes. 
There was once a dog that hated sand spurs and loved 
people so much that when any one came near him with 
sand spurs on his clothes, he would at once begin to 
pick them off, and the expression with which he jerked 
them out of his mouth showed very plainly what he 
thought of sand spurs. 
Sand spurs. 
