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The Harvester

CHAPTER IX
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If you are going to live in the country any length of time, you must know them, and they will become a great comfort.

Are you planning to be here long ?" "I have no plans.

After what I saw Chicago do to my mother I would rather finish life in the open than return to the city.

It is horrible here, but at least I'm not hungry, and not afraid----all the time." "Gracious Heaven!" cried the Harvester.

"Do you mean to say that you are afraid any part of the time?
Would you kindly tell me of whom, and why ?" "You should know without being told that when a woman born and reared in a city, and all her life confined there, steps into the woods for the first time, she's bound to be afraid.


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