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Updated: June 1, 2025
The wild oat, Avena fatua, is very common in Europe from whence it has been introduced in the United States. In summers which are unfavorable to the development of the cultivated oats it may be observed to multiply with an almost incredible rapidity. It does not contribute to the harvest, and is quite useless.
But these are not enough; we need besides some of the foods that plants give us, because, as I have told you, we need different kinds of food at one time to keep the body fires going briskly. What are some of the foods that plants give us? Bread is made from a plant from wheat. Oatmeal comes from the oat plant; and hominy, from corn.
So the frog took a blade of grass and fastened one of the mouse's front feet to one of his hind legs. When the frog leaped, the mouse tumbled after. Then they stopped and had a big laugh; it was very funny. They first went to an oat field, where the frog found many insects, and the mouse plenty of grain. Beyond this field there was a pond.
He nearly closed his own, and hers bent again in serenest contemplation. He looked at the bronze figure of the "Dying Stork," which was placed below the picture, and started to see that it moved also, and with a strange, unnatural, galvanic sort of movement, like the "animated oat," which moves when placed on the hand after being warmed a moment in the mouth.
According to Sinclair who experimented, with the aid of Sir Humphrey Davy, to ascertain its comparative nutritive properties it is superior in this respect to either meadow foxtail, orchard grass, or tall meadow oat grass; but it is probable that he somewhat overrates it.
I had not been five minutes at his side when his special nurse hurried up and warned me to leave, saying: "It's surgeon's orders. He's not going to have any babyin'!" I drew my hands from the frantic grasp, took away that last hold on human sympathy, and hurried oat, while his cry of "Oh, mutter! mutter!" rung in my ears as I turned and looked on his pure high brow for the last time.
We call it oatmeal. The oats for the horses are not flat but round like little seeds, and are not cooked on any stove. Farmer Green cuts the stalks in the oat field. Then he takes them to the threshing-machine, which knocks the little oats off the stalks. Then they are put in bags to keep for the horses. But the little black colt with the funny long legs does not eat them.
"You black villain," said I, "do you mean to say your mistress ever eat whole hogs?" "Yes, Massa, in course I do, but it was abbin' dere heads on fixed her flint for her." "What an awful liar you are, Sorrow!" "'Pon my sacred word and honour, Massa," he said, "I stake my testament oat on it; does you tink dis here child now would swear to a lie? true as preachin', Sar."
"I heard the cry of the painter, the howl of the wolf, and the hoarse bellow of the moose that night, and Crop crept close alongside of me, in our bush-shanty, and answered these forest sounds by a low growl, as if sayin' to himself, that while he'd rayther keep oat of a fight, yet, if necessary, in defence of his master, he was ready to go in.
"The fish is burning," he said, "and the oat cakes too; for I am smelling them ben the house;" and Janet ran to her fireside, and hastily turned her herring and cakes. "I'm feared you won't think much of your meat to-night," she said regretfully; "the tea is fairly ruined." "Never mind the meat, Mother," said Andrew. "We don't live to eat." "Never mind the meat, indeed! What perfect nonsense!
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