Title | : | Hardscrabble |
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Author | : | John Richardson |
Release | : | 2015-07-31 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Fairy Tales, Myths & Fables, Books, Fiction & Literature |
Size | : | 402653 |
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.It was on a beautiful day in the early part of the month of April, 1812, that four persons were met in a rude farm-house, situated on the Southern Branch of the Chicago river, and about four miles distant from the fort of that name. They had just risen from their humble mid-day meal, and three of them were now lingering near the fire-place, filled with blazing logs, which, at that early season, diffused a warmth by no means disagreeable, and gave an air of cheerfulness to the interior of the smoke-discolored building |