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From: (Richard Bond)
Subject: Re: HILL's of St. Thomas USVI
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 01:16:16 -0400 (EDT)
References: <visjqg80se5o2e@corp.supernews.com>


A grass seller is a person you would find in the market with a stack
of bundles of Guinea grass. Since people back then kept horses, donkeys,
goats and sheep they needed to provide them with feed. Not everybody who
had animals had a pasture or wanted to go collecting the fodder
themselves. Grass that has turned brown is less attractive to livestock.
I can remember my father collecting for our own animals sometimes after
dark because he had forgot. Were there someone selling bundles many a
time he would have bought.

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