Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879?-1948 / 2008-07-21 00:00:00
EBOOK OVER PRAIRIE TRAILS ***
This etext was produced by Gardner Buchanan.
OVER PRAIRIE TRAILS
By Frederick Philip Grove
Contents
Introductory
1 Farms and Roads
2 Fog
3 Dawn and Diamonds
4 Snow
5 Wind and Waves
6 A Call for Speed
7 Skies and Scares
Introductory
A few years ago it so happened that my work--teaching
school--kept me during the week in a small country town
in the centre of one of the prairie provinces while my
family--wife and little daughter--lived in the southern
fringe of the great northern timber expanse, not very
far from the western shore of a great lake. My wife--like
the plucky little woman she is--in order to round off my
far-from-imperial income had made up her mind to look
after a rural school that boasted of something like a
residence. I procured a buggy and horse and went "home"
on Fridays, after school was over, to return to my town
on Sunday evening--covering thus, while the season was
clement and allowed straight cross-country driving, coming
and going, a distance of sixty-eight miles. Beginning
with the second week of January this distance was raised
to ninety miles because, as my more patient readers will
see, the straight cross-country roads became impassable
through snow.
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