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The Indians usually pound them, and mixing them with the seeds of a species of gramma grass, which grows abundantly in that country, form them into a sort of bread, known among the trappers as "cricket-cake."
I ain't been in there this mornin'; I s'pose it's all right unless the children have been in an' cluttered it up." "No, we ain't, gramma, we ain't," proclaimed the children in a shrill shout. They danced around the table, removing the knives and forks; their innocent, pinky faces were full of cherubic glee.
Saying not another word, with the rifle across his shoulder and the turkey buzzard dangling down his thigh, he takes departure from the spot, striking eastward towards the high land dimly discernible on the horizon. "Vamos, Lolita! hold up, my pretty pet! Two leagues more, and you shall bury that velvet snout of yours in the soft gramma grass, and cool your heated hoof in a crystal stream.
I've been so busy getting settled and all but now I mean to keep a servant and shall have more time." Mrs. Jackson had read of ladies who kept servants but never had hoped to know one. "Where you goin' to git it? From Omyhaw or K. C.?" "Grandmother has promised to come to me," said Mrs. Symes languidly. Mrs. Jackson's jaw dropped. "Gramma Kunkel ain't a servant, is she? she's 'help."
He ran down the track after the retreating train, howling miserably. As for "Ma and Gramma," they had been overtaken by the dispatch just as they were starting to drive out to the farm, and had come in great perplexity to the station. The wailing baby running down the track suggested nothing to them, and the agent could give them no satisfaction. He was locking up his office.
The cactus and fetid creosote plant lined our path, the latter giving forth a most disagreeable odor as it was crushed beneath the horses' hoofs. Towards night we approached the base of a mountain, and entering a grove of willows and cottonwoods, halted, and dismounting, made preparations to encamp. The horses were staked out on the prairie and allowed to crop the gramma grass.
On the rack of finished shoes two pairs awaited their owners; on the other rack were a few that had evidently just come in. Yet Grandpa looked as tired as if he had mended a hundred pairs. He looked up when the bell tinkled. "Oh, Ellen-girl! Anything wrong?" "Only Gramma says please come to supper. Everything's getting spoiled." Grandpa glanced at his old clock. It said half-past five.
We all went to the Indian Territory from Florida and Georgia. That's how I come out here. I don't remember the Ku Klux. I remember hearing ma and gramma talk 'bout the way they tried to get way from 'em. My father was a farmer till freedom. He farmed around here and at Pine Bluff. He died at West Point. My mother and step-mother both died at Pine Bluff.
The plant had been noticed in certain localities in the South before the war, but the circumstance of its very general appearance throughout a large area of that section of country, was not particularly noticed until the confederate troops began to move from one southern state to another, when, finding it a valuable forage plant, they naturally enough regarded it as a providential dispensation, especially in those sections where other forage plants and nutritious gramma were not abundant.
The gramma grass of the and region grows quickly and turns gray instead of brown, as grasses usually do when they mature. It gives to the landscape a subdued and quiet color, which is pleasing to the eye and makes the ideal background in a picture. Into this warp of gray is woven a woof of green, spreading in irregular patches in all directions.
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