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Show !Ff m grass. Ler's Impression of the Famous L Grass Begions-The Eide I' Into Kentucky. I THE LINE WAS CEOSSED. I and Son-Des'ertation On Beef la-Laughed Too Soon-Boom-I ing the Show, LB wf7y from Washington till I 1 the heart of Kentucky the farmer I was unhappy; he saw hardly I' land that he would like to call In But that remnant of the wild If ;he woods, which most of us still I saw much that delighted him, idly down the New river, where I to and the waters and the steep I clad mountains were as wild and l..r9 as anything he had known I dark Darwinian ages. But when Lured upon the banks of the Great t'-ha the man of tho woods lost his Ft and the men of the fields saw liat was comforting. In we cross the line into Kentucky, I w0 shall see a change. But no, I : not. The farmer still groaned in I no thrifty farms, no substantial t, do neat villages, no good roads lliere, but squalor and sterility on I hand. Nearly all the afternoon lie through a country like the poor-Irts poor-Irts of New England, unredeemed I .-thing like New England thrift. I. a country of coal, a very new ry, geologically speaking, and the lil did not 6eem to have had time come deepened and enriched by I ible mold. I t sundown, as I glanced out of the I thought I began to see a L-e. Presently I was very sure I did. fjan to appear in the more grassy Lter of the woods. Then I caught I of peculiarly soft and uniform y patches here and there in the Then in a few moments more the had fairly shot us into the edge of )!tie grass region, and the fanner in i gan to be on the alert. We had 1 in a twinkling from a portion of arth's surface which is new, which yesterday, to a portion which is of 1 jest, from the carboniferous to the r silurian. Here upon this lower si-;i si-;i the earth that saw and nourished ;reat monsters and dragons was ing the delicate blue grass. It had i all these millions upon millions of . to prepare the way for this little to grow to perfection, longht I had never seen fields and hills look so soft in the twilight; seemed olad in greenish gray fur. eneared Mount Sterling how fat niooth the land looked; what long, gently flowing lines against the j western sky, broken here and' by herds of slowly grazing or else ing and ruminating cattle! What and plenty it suggested! From a raw and crude and bitter like un-frnit un-frnit we had suddenly been trans-1 trans-1 into tho midst of one ripe and w with the fullness of time. It I I sweet to look upon. I was seized J I a strong desire to go forth and taste I a stroll through it in the twilight'. I I hn Burroughs in Century. |