Identifier: farmersboy00john (find matches)
Title: The farmer's boy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: Farm life -- New England Rural children -- New England New England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : Crowell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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re to make a sudden dash forwardand that shrouded the boy with smoke. He ran back toa point of safety and listened to the far-off shouts of themen. The fire was across the path he had hoed, and heclambered up the hill to find company. When night came the boy wandered off home, to dohis work and eat supi)er. If he could get permission, hewas out again with his lioe in the evening. The scenewas then more than e\er full of a wild charm. Fromthe sombreness of tlic unburned tracts he looked into thehot, wavering line of daz/ling llames and on into regionswhere lingered many sparkling eml)ers wliicli the lire hadnot vet burned out. Xow and ihtn tlinv was a pik olwood that was a great mass of glowing coals; or he sawthe high stum)) of some dead tree burning like a torchin tile 1)lackness. Vhv l)()y thought \hv mm (\n\ nwwtalking and advising tlian work. \lc (hd not acn)iupli-limuch him>L-h. Thr men kt))l togrthir, and lu hung abouttile half Hghted groups, h>trn((l to what was said, and
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(Jiugcr cookies wiih ihr oi1ht> did some (K>ult()ry scratcliin,^ lo kvv\) thefin- from ^;ainin,L,^ niw ground at ihc )ioini iluy were y and 1)\ a man rame hallooim,^ his \\a\- throughthe woods to them, hrini^Mnu; a milk can lull of coffee.Every worker, old and younsj;. took a drink, and the\- allcracked jokes and exchanged opinions with the bearertill he started off to Imd the next ,L!;rou)). Some of themen stayed on <fuar hngers at the stow dam))er wlien hv was a babw Heliked to look at the glow of a lamji; and a candle, with itssoft llicker and halo, was especially pleasing. Then thosenew matches his folk

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