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Chapter 1 THE OLD SOUTH
PERCY JOHNSTON stood waiting on the broad veranda of an old-style Southern home, on a bright November day in 1903. He had just come from Blue Mound Station, three miles away, with suit-case in hand.
"Would it be possible for me to secure room and board here for a few days?" he inquired of the elderly woman who answered his knock.
"Would it be possible?" she repeated, apparently asking herself the question, while she scanned the face of her visitor with kindly eyes that seemed to look beneath the surface.
"I beg your pardon, my name is Johnston,-Percy Johnston-" he said with some embarrassment and hesitation, realizing from her speech and manner that he was not addressing a servant.
"No pardon is needed for that name," she interrupted; "Johnston is a name we're mighty proud of here in the South."
"But I am from the West," he said.
"We're proud of the West, too; and you should feel right welcome here, for this is 'Westover,'" waving her hand toward the inroad fields surrounding the old mansion house. "I am Mrs. West, or at least I used to be. Perhaps the title better belongs to my son's wife at the present time; while I am mother, grandma, and great-grandmother.
"Yes, Sir, you will be very welcome to share our home for a few days if you wish; and we'll take you as a boarder. We used to entertain my husband's friends from Richmond,-and from Washington, too, before the sixties; but since then we have grown poor, and of late years we take some summer boarders. They have all returned to the city, however, the last of them having left only yesterday; so you can have as many rooms as you like.
"Adelaide!" she called.
A rugged girl of seventeen entered the hall from a rear room.
"This is my granddaughter, Adelaide, Mr. Johnston."
Percy looked into her eyes for an instant; then her lashes dropped. He remembered afterward that they were like her grandmother's, and he found himself repeating, "The eye is the window of the soul."
"My Dear, will you ask Wilkes to show Mr. Johnston to the southwest room, and to put a fire in the grate and warm water in the pitcher?"
"Thank you, that will not be necessary," said Percy. "I wish to see and learn as much as possible of the country hereabout, and particularly of the farm lands; and, if I may leave my suit-case to be sent to my room when convenient, I shall take a walk,-perhaps a long walk. When should I be back to supper."
"At six or half past. My son Charles has gone to Montplain, but he will be home for dinner. He knows the lands all about here and will be glad, I am sure, to give you any information possible."
With rapid strides Percy followed the private lane to the open fields of Westover.
"Is he a cowboy, Grandma?" asked Adelaide, in a tone which did not suggest a very high regard for cowboys. "Anyway," she continued, detecting a shade of disapproval in the grandmother's face, "he has a cowboy's hat, but he doesn't wear buckskin trousers or spurs."
Percy's hat was a relic of college life. Two years before he had completed the agricultural course at one of the state universities in the corn belt. Somewhat above the average in size, well proportioned, accustomed to the heaviest farm work, and trained in football at college, he was a sturdy young giant,-" strong as an ox and quick as lightning," in the exaggerated language of his football admirers
Chapter 1 THE OLD SOUTH
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Chapter 2 FORTY ACRES IN THE CORN BELT
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Chapter 3 LINCOLN S VIEW OF AGRICULTURE
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Chapter 4 LIFE'S CHOICE
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Chapter 5 WORN OUT FARMS
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Chapter 6 THE MUSICALE
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Chapter 7 A BIT OF HISTORY
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Chapter 8 WESTOVER
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Chapter 9 THE BLACK PERIL
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Chapter 10 THE SLAVE AND THE FREEDMAN
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Chapter 11 JUDGMENT IS COME
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Chapter 12 THE RESTORATION
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Chapter 13 A LESSON IN FARM SCIENCE
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Chapter 14 COEDUCATION
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Chapter 15 PAST SELF REDEMPTION
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Chapter 16 MORE PROBLEMS
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Chapter 17 CLOSER TO MOTHER EARTH
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Chapter 18 FROM RICHMOND TO WASHINGTON
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Chapter 19 A LESSON IN OPTIMISM
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Chapter 20 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF
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Chapter 21 THE CHEMIST'S LABORATORY
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Chapter 22 MATHEMATICS APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE
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Chapter 23 THE NATION'S CAPITOL
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Chapter 24 A LESSON ON TOBACCO
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Chapter 25 ANOTHER LESSON ON TOBACCO
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Chapter 26 EIGHTEEN TO ONE
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Chapter 27 FARMER OR PROFESSOR
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Chapter 28 THE ULTIMATE COMPARISON
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Chapter 29 STONE SOUP
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Chapter 30 THEORIES VERSUS FACTS
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Chapter 31 GUESSING AND GASSING
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Chapter 32 THE DIAGNOSIS AND PRESCRIPTION
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Chapter 33 PLANNING FOR LIFE
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Chapter 34 HARD TIMES
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Chapter 35 HARDER TIMES
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Chapter 36 AN AWAKENING DREAM
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Chapter 37 INSPIRATION
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Chapter 38 THE KINDERGARTEN
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Chapter 39 ADVANCE INFORMATION
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