Chapter 9 - (VERSO)
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His neighbors laughed at him, and said that the fruit of an orchard so far away from the house would all be stolen. But as yet there was no fruit, and when the time came for bearing there would be enough and to spare.
“Blossom and we’ll get all we want, and the boys can have the rest, if they want ’em worse’n they want a good conscience,” said that unworldly, unbusiness-like Old Man Shaw.
On his way back home from his darling orchard he found a rare fern in the woods and dug
TEXT ANNOTATION
From "Old Man Shaw's Girl."