Driven for years by work in the city, the narrator collapses and retreats to a farm, first as tenant and then as owner. He describes the joy of possession, cutting an axe-helve, digging a marsh ditch, arguing with a millionaire, a visiting tramp, a boy and a preacher, and the neighbours who teach him what a contented life can be.
The pen name of journalist Ray Stannard Baker, and a lasting favourite with readers longing for a simpler life. Download the free EPUB.