The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . form andquality and organization : hardness and solidity ofbone, strength of tendon, firmness and elasticity ofmuscle, power of nerve, and capacity of lung. Eventhe Falstaff porkers, their eyes gleaming with glut-tonous enjoyment, have looked to it for the shapingof their posthumous hams and the padding of theirlong backbones in depths of snowy lard. In wintermules and sheep and horses paw away the snow toget at the green shoots that lie covered over be-neath the full, rank growth of autumn, or they findit attractive provender i
The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . form andquality and organization : hardness and solidity ofbone, strength of tendon, firmness and elasticity ofmuscle, power of nerve, and capacity of lung. Eventhe Falstaff porkers, their eyes gleaming with glut-tonous enjoyment, have looked to it for the shapingof their posthumous hams and the padding of theirlong backbones in depths of snowy lard. In wintermules and sheep and horses paw away the snow toget at the green shoots that lie covered over be-neath the full, rank growth of autumn, or they findit attractive provender in their ricks. For all thatlive upon it, it is perennial and abundant, beautifuland beneficent—the first great natural factor in theprosperity of the Kentucky people. What wonderif the Kentuckian, like the Greek of old, should wishto have even his paradise well set in grass; or that,with a knowing humor, he should smile at David forsaying, He maketh his grass to grow upon themountains/ inasmuch as the only grass worth speak-ing of grows on his beloved plain !. THE BLUE-GRASS REGION II But if grass is the first element in the lovely Ken-tucky landscape, as it must be in every other one, byno means should it be thought sole or chief. InDante, as Ruskin points out, whenever the countryis to be beautiful, we come into open air and openmeadows. Homer places the sirens in a meadowwhen they are to sing. Over the blue-grass, there-fore, one walks into the open air and open meadowsof the blue-grass land. This has long had reputation for being one of thevery beautiful spots of the earth, and it is worthwhile to consider those elements of natural scenerywherein the beauty consists. One might say, first, that the landscape possesseswhat is so very rare even in beautiful landscapes—the quality of gracefulness. Nowhere does one en-counter vertical lines or violent slopes ; nor are thereperfectly level stretches like those that make thegreen fields monotonous in the Dutch dar
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