Western field . ork of dark lines theywove across the blue. Up out of the horizonthey came at a pace that only the blue-winged teal of the Mississippi Valley canequal, now on a curve, then on a tangent tothat curve, deluding you as to the next twist,now aimed at your head, then aspiring tothe stars, but ever a change and a delight. It is a common impression that prairie isabout level. But most of it is rolling and thebest of it quite so. The most charming ofall is that in which the land rolls in longwaves as high as fifty feet. Then we haveall the grandeur of the sea with no lesseningof immens
Western field . ork of dark lines theywove across the blue. Up out of the horizonthey came at a pace that only the blue-winged teal of the Mississippi Valley canequal, now on a curve, then on a tangent tothat curve, deluding you as to the next twist,now aimed at your head, then aspiring tothe stars, but ever a change and a delight. It is a common impression that prairie isabout level. But most of it is rolling and thebest of it quite so. The most charming ofall is that in which the land rolls in longwaves as high as fifty feet. Then we haveall the grandeur of the sea with no lesseningof immensitys power, but when we find thisundulation between hills several hundredfeet higher, all robed in grass, ferns andtrees, while the prairie itself is more thanhalf shaded by grand old oaks, it makes theloveliest combination of timber and openthat earth can show. Nor was this changedby the first step of civilization. The wavinggrain and golden stubble at first merely ad-ded to the effect of the whole. It was only. ?^• THK OLD DOU WITH NOSE UPTURNED. the later steps, cutting down the trees, burn-ing away the shrubbery, plowing the lastvestige of the prairie far up the grassybluffs, the fatal touch of the white manon all that is fair in nature, that swept thelingering fairness from the land. Though but a memory it seems but yester-day that the old dog was racing up and downthese checkered shades with nose upraisedto the breeze that came in from the moreopen land, for the pinnated grouse lovedthese cool parks better than the clean the grass and ferns that robed thd ground,all angled with a thousand flowers, there waslittle danger of a well trained dog flushingthe game, and we used to follow him withthe wagon until he settled down to that rig-
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