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Why Saylo was called "one-eyed" was a mystery, for he had two of the very best eyes for spying the hated loco-weed ever known in that region. Loco-weed grows, when unmolested, to a height of sixteen or eighteen inches, and its queer leaves shine and sparkle in the sunlight like silver and crystals. Its effects on horses or cattle that happen to eat it are worse than deadly.
"It’s mighty inconvenient that I should have mislaid that book, but rounding up my recollections of it, I recall something like this: ’Romance is the loco-weed of humanity.’" "So you don’t approve of the Mormon Bible?" ventured Mary. "I jest nacherally execrates Mormonism, spoken, printed, or in action," she said, with an emphasis that suggested the subject had a strong personal bearing.
There was much good-humoured jesting at the "Horse Preacher" while the stable was building and the story went the rounds that he often used the empty stall for a study, in preference to the silent little room in the house. In any case, he hand-picked the hay to guard against the poisonous loco-weed, and washed the oats, to shut out any possibility of smut.
My dear, gentle little pony! You ate that loco-weed Saylo brought for the college professor!" Now Martha was crying, too, for she knew that her pony was lost to her. "They they left it lying by the porch," she went on, "and you ate it while we were at supper. Oh, my little Texas!"
Locating Plans Prairie Fires and Guards Bulls Trading Successful Methods Loco-weed Sale of Ranch. A year before selling out the Company's cattle I had started a small ranch for myself. The location was part of the country where our stock horses used to run with the mustangs, and so I knew every foot of it pretty well.
Domestic animals sometimes make mistakes as to their food because their instinct has been tampered with and is by no means as sure as that of the wild creatures. It is said that sheep will occasionally eat laurel and St. John's-wort, which are poisonous to them. In the far West I was told that the horses sometimes eat a weed called the loco-weed that makes them crazy.
One good, big meal of loco-weed will ruin an animal forever. A locoed horse, once locoed, is locoed until he dies. Apparently he may recover wholly, but he is not a safe animal to ride, for at any moment he may stagger and fall, or go suddenly mad. A locoed horse is almost certain to show it when he becomes heated by rapid traveling or hard work.
"He always acts like that he thinks it wouldn't be showing proper respect to a lady unless he wasted half a dozen cartridges and showed off his horsemanship." Saylo acknowledged his introduction to Scylla with great ceremony, and then told John that he had come to bring the loco-weed for the college professor. By dint of much searching and hard riding he had gathered a gunny-sack full of it.
"You must know that on the hills grows a weed called loco-weed. Sometimes the sheep find and eat it, and it makes them dull and stupid you know how you feel when you take gas to have your teeth pulled. Yes? Well, it's like that. We never let the herd get it if we can help it, and if they do we drive them away from it. They will go right back again, too, and eat more if you do not watch them.
"Stables going yet? Why, I thought it must be supper time. Colonel sent me ahead to find him. Three of 'E' Troop horses act like they'd been eating loco-weed. That's what kept us." "Colonel Button's always findin' some way of sendin' you in ahaid, Marse Lanier," grinned Chloe. "Ah don't wonder dey says you can do anything you like an' never get hauled up for it."
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