Clark's Field
Clark's Field
For big imagination and deep study of American national life "Clark's Field" is in all ways a noteworthy book. Follow the career of a poverty-stricken girl who inherits a valuable piece of land. From boarding school, traveling abroad, and through an unsuccessful marriage to her realization of the meaning of the trusteeship of wealth.
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I remember across my father's back fence. All the near-by farmers were doing much the same thing, turning the better part of their land into gardens. They would start before dawn in summer time for the city, making their way along the South Road, which was the main thoroughfare into this part of the country. Many a time have I seen their covered wagons returning from the city about the time when I was starting for school, the horses wearily plodding along at a walk, the farmer or his boy asleep in the wagon on his empty crates.
I don't know what sort of an arrangement old Clark made with his tenant, but Adams, who was a hard-working fellow with a tribe of strong children, must have found the business profitable, especially after he built the forcing-houses and began to supply unseasonable luxuries to the prosperous citizens of B----. Prices ran high in the years of the great war, and those farmers who stayed at home and cultivated their gardens industriously made money at every turn. At any rate, it w
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