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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support
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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce
conquered foot-hold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness
before they became sowers of hemp - with remem-brance of Virginia,
with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain. Away back in the days
when they lived with wife, child, flock in frontier wooden
fortresses and hardly ventured forth for water, salt, game, tillage
- in the very summer of that wild daylight ride of Tomlin-son and
Bell, by comparison with which, my children, the midnight ride of
Paul Revere, was as tame as the pitching of a rocking-horse in a
boy's nursery - on that history-making twelfth of August, of the
year 1782, when these two backwoods riflemen, during that same
Revolution the Kentuckians then fighting a branch of that same
British army, rushed out of Bryan's Station for the rousing of the
settlements and the saving of the West - hemp was growing tall and
thick near the walls of the fort.
THE middle of a fragrant afternoon of May in the green wilderness
of Kentucky: the year 1795. High overhead ridges of many-peaked
cloud - the gleaming, wandering Alps of the blue ether;
outstretched far below, the warming bosom of the earth, throbbing
with the hope of maternity. Two spirits abroad in the air,
encountering each other and passing into one: the spirit of
scentless spring left by melting snows and the spirit of scented
summer born with the earliest buds.
Any one about to read this work of fiction might properly be
apprised beforehand that it is not a novel: it has neither the
structure nor the purpose of The Novel. It is a story. There are
two characters - a middle-aged married couple living in a plain
farmhouse; one point on the field of human nature is located; at
that point one subject is treated; in the treatment one movement is
directed toward one climax; no external event whatsoever is
introduced; and the time is about forty hours.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
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