Hiram The Young Farmer 小农场主哈兰姆

HIRAM THE YOUNG FARMER 1 HIRAM THE YOUNG FARMER BY BURBANK L. TODD 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org HIRAM THE YOUNG FARMER 2 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 before the youth as he looked westward were cottages, or the more important-looking homesteads on the larger farms; and in the distance a white church spire behind the trees marked the tiny settlement of Blaine's Smithy. A Sabbath calm lay over the fields and woods. It was mid-afternoon of an early February Sunday--the time of the mid-winter thaw, that false prophet of the real springtime. Although not a furrow had been turned as yet in the fields, and the snow lay deep in some fence corners and beneath the hed......