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Updated: May 3, 2025
Everything was doing well; but it had been a late spring that year, and the cat's-tail was barely forming as yet, while the clover had just begun to show bloom. The last rain had beaten down a lot of the first-year grass, and it could not pick up again, so Nils had put on the mowing-machine.
In fact, they are a simple, timid, inoffensive race, unpractised in warfare, and scarce provided with any weapons, excepting for the chase. Their lives are passed in the great sand plains and along the adjacent rivers; they subsist sometimes on fish, at other times on roots and the seeds of a plant, called the cat's-tail.
A small plant, with long, narrow, grassy leaves, resembling that kind of bulrush which in England is called the Cat's-tail, yields a resin of a bright yellow colour, exactly resembling gambouge, except that it does not stain: It has a sweet smell, but its properties we had no opportunity to discover, any more than those of many others with which the natives appear to be acquainted, as they have distinguished them by names.
"Ah, Frank Webber, I recognize your slap-dash, bold hand without the aid of the initials in the corner; and this what can this be? this queer, misshapen thing, representing nothing save the forty-seventh proposition of Euclid, and the address seemingly put on with a cat's-tail dipped in lampblack? Yes, true enough, it is from Mister Free himself. And what have we here?
"Oh, not far." "No; right at the bottom o' the Cat's-tail," the boy joyfully explained. "He means the foot o' Cat-tail Peak!" the mother apologized. "How many miles?" "Just a little ways ye can't miss it; the third house you come to on this road." "You'll be there in three shakes of a sheep's tail in that thing!" the boy declared.
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