Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — A Peculiar Weed. [ARTICLE]

A Peculiar Weed.

A curious kind of weed which grows in the Arkansas Valley has often proved misleading to sportsmen. It is shaped ike a ball and varies in size from one oot or less in diameter to five or six eet, some specimens being as tall as a man. It grows upon a small stem, which is, however, stout enough to beai the mass till it has ripened and dried, when a puff of wind will blow it over and snap the slender support. Then it is that every gust of wind sends it rolling over the prairie, bounding ovei bushes and rocks with the greatest elasticity and lightness. When the wind is strong and high these tumbling weeds present a most peculiar appear ance as they bound from rock to rock and in more than one instance hunter have mistaken them for bisons, and felt considerable irritation at the im possibility of bringing them withii range of their guns. Thk bunco men are now inclined t< look down on the bank-o men in Nev York.