TheTorrentsofSpring

T H E T O R R E N T S O F S P R I N G Ernest Hemingway C O N T E N T S PART ONE Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five PART TWO Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten PART THREE Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve PART FOUR Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen AUTHOR’S FINAL NOTE TO THE READER ABOUT THE AUTHOR COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE PUBLISHER PA R T O N E Red and Black Laughter The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation. HENRY FIELDING C H A P T E R O N E Y O G I J O H N S O N S T O O D looking out of the window of a big pump-factory in Michigan. Spring would soon be here. Could it be that what this writing fellow Hutchinson had said, “If winter comes can spring be far behind?” would be true again this year? Yogi Johnson wondered. Near Yogi at the next window but one stood Scripps O’Neil, a tall, lean man with a tall, lean face. Both stood and looked out at the empty yard of the pump-factory. Snow covered the crated pumps that would soon be shipped away. Once the spring should come and the snow melt, workmen f......