The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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THE SOD HOUSE S7 clothing operative. The journey took a week, during which the two young adventurers slept shivering on hay and ate cold meals. They were young, however, and to boys who knew only the manicured fields of Hungary or the smoky walls of Chicago, these wide, wind-blown skies and unlimited surges of rolling land afforded every hour a new and thrilling interest. When more than forty years later Morris Kohn told me the story of this adventure, he remembered not so much its hardships as its glories. The green shoots of April were just beginning to tinge the northern prairies when they pulled into Devil’s Lake. “It looked like a frontier town in the movies,” says Morris Kohn. Devil’s Lake was up to its neck in the land boom. The crowd about the general store welcomed the young adventurers as advance guard of a horde which before snow flew would make their desert blossom like the rose. Even Kohn and Kaufmann’s halting, broken English appealed at the moment not to the rough Western sense of humour, but to the hearty Western admiration for courage and enterprise. An old settler stepped forward and offered to guide them to a good fertile location which no one had as yet staked out. After a hurried consultation in Hungarian, Morris and Herman decided to take a chance and accept. They bought at the general store the lumber and tar paper for a “shack.” Their guide mounted, led them twenty miles northward, stopped, and pointed to a beautiful