Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 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 c-et, some specimens being as tall as s man. It grows upon a final 1 stem, which is, however, stoat enough to bear the mass till it has ripened and dried, when a puff of wind will blow it over and snaptbe slender support. Then it is that every gust of wind sends it rolling over the prairie, bounding over, bushes and rocks with the greatest elasticity sod lightness- When the wind is strong and high these tumbling weeds present s most peculiar appearance as they bound from rock to rock, and in more than one instance hunters have mistaken them for bjsons, mad felt considerable irritation at the impossibility of bringing them within range of their guns. % Thk bunco men are now indinod to look down on the laak-o men in New York. . /; - • . i -i i