Here's a short story:

CHAPTER XIV. 

HARRY'S GRAND SCHEME. 

This wholesale appropriation of horses caused, of course, a great commotion in the vicinity of Akeville, and half the male population turned out the next day in search of George Mason and the five horses. 

Even Harry was infected with the general excitement, and, mounted on old Selim, he rode away after dinner (there was no school that afternoon) to see if he could find any one who had heard anything. There ought to be news, for the men had been away all the morning. 

About two miles from the village, the road on which Harry was riding forked, and not knowing that the party which had started off in that direction had taken the road which ran to the northeast, as being the direction in which a man would probably go, if he wanted to get away safely with five stolen horses, Harry kept straight on. 

The road was lonely and uninteresting. On one side was a wood of "old-field pines"--pines of recent growth and little value, that spring up on the old abandoned tobacco fields--and on the other a stretch of underbrush, with here and there a tree of tolerable size, but from which almost all the valuable timber had been cut. 

Selim was inclined to take things leisurely, and Harry gradually allowed him to slacken his pace into a walk, and even occasionally to stop and lower his head to take a bite from some particularly tempting bunch of grass by the side of the road.  (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question. Give ONLY the guess, no other words or explanation.

For example:

Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: Which horse did Harry ride?
Guess: old Selim

Question: What he excited?
Guess: yes

Question: When he begin to ride?
Guess: after dinner

Question: Was there school that afternoon?
Guess: no

Question: What caused a big stir?
Guess: wholesale appropriation of horses

Question: Near what town?
Guess: Akeville

Question: How many people showed up?
Guess: half the male population

Question: What were they looking for?
Guess: George Mason and the five horses

Question: How far was Harry from the village before the road split?
Guess: About two miles

Question: Did he know which way the others went?
Guess: no

Question: Which way did he go?
Guess: straight on

Question: Was the road interesting?
Guess: no

Question: What was on one side of him?
Guess: a wood of "old-field pines"

Question: What was on the other?
Guess: a stretch of underbrush

Question: Were the pines on the one side valuable?
Guess: no

Question: Where did they tend to grow?
Guess: on the old abandoned tobacco fields

Question: Was Selim in a hurry?
Guess: no

Question: What did Harry eventually let him do?
Guess: allowed him to slacken his pace into a walk

Question: Did he let him stop and eat?
Guess: yes

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: What did he eat?

grass