![]() Leaving the farm for the more promising life of the big city they were as men born anew, and their second infancy was like that of Hercules. It is to be feared this latter thing and the love of right living, for its own sake, were more in their thoughts than the immortal crown that had been the inspiration of their fathers. Every son was nurtured in the love of honour and of industry, and the hope of sometime being president. Far from the centres of life their amusements, their humours, their religion, their folk lore, their views of things had in them the flavour of the timber lands, the simplicity of childhood. After years of toil in a rigorous climate they left their sons little besides a stumpy farm and a coon-skin overcoat. They founded their homes in the Adirondack wildernesses and cleared their rough acres with the axe and the charcoal pit. Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer, Martin Robb, and David Widger EBEN HOLDEN A TALE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY By Irving BachellerĮarly in the last century the hardy wood-choppers began to come west, out of Vermont. ![]() *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EBEN HOLDEN *** With this eBook or online at Title: Eben Holden Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Project Gutenberg EBook of Eben Holden, by Irving Bacheller ![]()
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