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Show Grass Growing I Br0fcl Grass Meowing in Broadway-wowing in one of theaort crowded pstorf Sif-f if, where tush Idly about on badness 2 CT??7h? the Slln is hottest and the Wity hi3heat. Thoro isn't a pt deal of the grass, but what there ia uflounsoing. Thousands pass over it everyday, but none of thei touches it, tor it is just tindor a queer little iron grating get in the pavement for some reason that isn't now apparent. Under the iron bars is a little space hollowed out in the fla?singi and in it dnst dirt have accumulated to the depth of an inch or so. How the grass seeds got there is not easily to be accounted for -unless they were brought by the sparrows. spar-rows. Dut the seeds fell there at any rate, and now the grass is struggling np to the bars of the grating. There is no trouble aDout moisture, for every rain turns the hollow into a little reservoir and m two or three weeks anybody with a liking for novelty may take up the gfating and harvest tho first crop of hay that has been raised in the neighborhood of lower Broadway for many a year New York Times. |