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Title: Hiram The Young Farmer
Author: Burbank L. Todd
Posting Date: October 10, 2008 [EBook #1679]
Release Date: March, 1999
Language: English
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HIRAM THE YOUNG FARMER
By Burbank L. Todd
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE CALL OF SPRING
CHAPTER II. AT MRS. ATTERSON'S
CHAPTER III. A DREARY DAY
CHAPTER IV. THE LOST CARD
CHAPTER V. THE COMMOTION AT MOTHER ATTERSON'S
CHAPTER VI. THIS DIDN'T GET BY HIRAM
CHAPTER VII. HOW HIRAM LEFT TOWN
CHAPTER VIII. THE LURE OF GREEN FIELDS
CHAPTER IX. THE BARGAIN IS MADE
CHAPTER X. THE SOUND OF BEATING HOOFS
CHAPTER XI. A GIRL RIDES INTO THE TALE
CHAPTER XII. SOMETHING ABOUT A PASTURE FENCE
CHAPTER XIII. THE UPROOTING
CHAPTER XIV. GETTING IN THE EARLY CROPS
CHAPTER XV. TROUBLE BREWS
CHAPTER XV. ONE SATURDAY AFTERNOON
CHAPTER XVII. MR. PEPPER APPEARS
CHAPTER XVIII. A HEAVY CLOUD
CHAPTER XIX. THE REASON WHY
CHAPTER XX. AN ENEMY IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XXI. THE WELCOME TEMPEST
CHAPTER XXII. FIRST FRUITS
CHAPTER XXIII. TOMATOES AND TROUBLE
CHAPTER XXIV. "CORN THAT'S CORN"
CHAPTER XXV. THE BARBECUE
CHAPTER XXVI. SISTER'S TURKEYS
CHAPTER XXVII. RUN TO EARTH
CHAPTER XXVIII. HARVEST
CHAPTER XXIX. LETTIE BRONSON'S CORN HUSKING
CHAPTER XXX. ONE SNOWY MIDNIGHT
CHAPTER XXXI. "MR. DAMOCLES'S SWORD"
CHAPTER XXXII. THE CLOUD IS LIFTED
CHAPTER XXXIII. "CELERY MAD"
CHAPTER XXXIV. CLEANING UP A PROFIT
CHAPTER XXXV. LOOKING AHEAD
CHAPTER I. THE CALL OF SPRING
"Well, after all, the country isn't such a bad place as some city folk
think."
The young fellow who said this stood upon the highest point of the Ridge
Road, where the land sloped abruptly to the valley in which lay the
small municipality of Crawberry on the one hand, while on the other open
fields and patches of woodland, in a huge green-and-brown checkerboard
pattern, fell more easily to the bank of the distant river.
Dotted here and there about the farming country lying befor
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