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Updated: May 4, 2025
"Well," he went on once more, "we were all of us scattered; scarcely two kept together anywhere; where the pack was, where the boar was, where the huntsmen were, nobody knew. Now and then I heard the hounds giving tongue at the distance, and I rode after that to the best of my science; and uncommonly bad was the best. That forest work perplexes one, after the grass-country.
"Got to thinking in the desert, and sort of willing things to come to pass, and mooning along, you, and the sky, and the vultures, and the hot hills, and the snakes, and the flowers eh?" "There weren't any flowers till I got to the grass-country." "Oh, cuss me, if you ain't simple for your kind! I know all about that.
He looked at the tin of honey on the ground. "Not in the desert, but when I got to the grass-country." "How long were you in the desert?" "Close to a year." Tim's eyes opened wider. He saw that the man was speaking the truth.
It was at a kind of veld tavern in the Orange Free State, a shanty in the grass-country between Driepoort and Kroonfontein, where travellers can get a bad lodging, and bad liquor, and worse company. 'Trekkers Plaats' they call the place now. But when my friend was there it was known as the 'Free State Hotel."
The train wound in and out of coulees, through romantic-looking ravines, and finally out upon the flat grass-country where the Indians came first into view of the supposedly frightened pilgrims. Helen and Jennie, as well as Ruth herself, in the gingham and sunbonnets of the far West of that earlier day, added to the crowd of emigrants riding in the wagons.
He looked at the tin of honey on the ground. "Not in the desert, but when I got to the grass-country." "How long were you in the desert?" "Close to a year." Tim's eyes opened wider. He saw that the man was speaking the truth.
I fared well though the food was rough, and I subsisted chiefly on rice and papayas, together with pigeons, doves, parrots, and the smaller hornbill, called here "talactic," all of which fell to my gun. The surrounding country in these lower mountains was a mixture of forest and open grass-country, the grass often growing far over my head.
The low country lay spread out below him, ragged patches of brown alternating with those of dirty white, the wind having scoured the snow from open grass-country and piled it to the tops of the sage in the heavier clumps and in long drifts trailing away downwind behind them, or packed it in the depths of badland washes and cracks.
And when you got to the grass-country, you just picked up the honey, and the flowers, and a calf, and a lamb, and a mule here and there, 'without money and without price, and walked on that it?" The other shrank before the steel in the voice, and nodded his head. "But you kept thinking in the grass-country of what you'd felt and said and done and willed, in the desert, I suppose?"
And when you got to the grass-country you just picked up the honey and the flowers, and a calf and a lamb and a mule here and there, 'without money and without price, and walked on that it?" The other shrank before the steel in the voice, and nodded his head. "But you kept thinking in the grass-country of what you'd felt and said and done and willed, in the desert, I suppose?"
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