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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Settler

The Settler

Whitaker, Herman

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1518748821
ISBN13: 9781518748820
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 3 2015
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The clip of a cutting axe flushed a heron from the bosom of a reedy lake and sent him soaring in slow spirals until, at the zenith of his flight, he overlooked a vast champaign. Far to the south a yellow streak marked the scorched prairies of southern Manitoba; eastward and north a spruce forest draped the land in a mantle of gloom; while to the west the woods were thrown with a scattering hand over a vast expanse of rolling prairie. These were the Park Lands of the Fertile Belt-a beautiful country, rich, fat-soiled, rank with flowers and herbage, once the hunting-ground of Cree and Ojibway, but now passed to the sterner race whose lonely farmsteads were strewn over the face of the land. These presented a deadly likeness. Each had its log-house, its huge tent of firewood upreared against next winter's drift, and the same yellow strawstacks dotted their fenceless fields. One other thing, too, they had in common-though this did not lie to the eye of the heron-a universal mortgage, legacy of the recent boom, covered all.

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