The House That Shadows Built (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The House That Shadows Built
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The House That Shadows Built
Leaf #:
00079
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 16, 2023
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CHAPTER VI BACK TO CHICAGO aAs SOON as the frost was out of the ground, Morris and Herman began working sixteen hours a day at breaking land. Those two inexperienced men alone accomplished that season the superhuman task of planting nearly a quarter-section in wheat. Under the suns and rains of a good crop year, it flourished mightily. The stalks grew as high as a man’s shoulder, and they were “heading up” to plump richness. The partners sat in the sod house by night, figuring in the illumination of a guttering candle. The profits would set them more than even with the world. Next year they would plant the whole section. It was a bonanza ! And in the first week of August, down from the Arctic came a premature frost. It blasted the wheat; turned the golden ears to filthy black pellets. . . . They stood the blow as best they could. Samuel kept up his remittances from Chicago. But interest and pressing debts used up all that money, and the family in the sod house must live. Morris went out to find work for the winter. A company of gentleman farmers from Canada had taken up an area near by and begun an ambitious programme of building.They employed Morris 63