MURDEROUS GRASS.
When you are taking a country walk after a hard week's work in town you are impressed by the green things about you, and you feel the impulse to pluck them. But beware of snatching at the long grasses which grow by the wayside They are thin and weak, but when stripped through the fingers lengthwise they are capable of giving a very aasty cut indeed, ar*d it may be one with serious consequences, for roadside grasses arc generally coated with dust, which oontains the germs of a score of unpleasant ailments.
You can cut yourself in a similar way when you try to break a strong thread by twisting it round your finger and pulling, and you may cut your lip with the edge ol ~„ or >e u-hen vou lick it.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 543, 19 February 1913, Page 2
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134MURDEROUS GRASS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 543, 19 February 1913, Page 2
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