The Earth and the Fullness Thereof

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Excerpt from The Earth and the Fullness Thereof: A Romance of Modern Styria On next New Year's Eve I shall appear before you, in a night-cap and armed with a pitchfork. I shall not work one hour beyond my time, even should half of this January elapse before I find a situation. Try hard? Of course I shall. In der Zusen is the name of the little nest where, seated at the inn table, I am writing my first news to you, my mourning friends. Yesterday I was rejected at two farmhouses where I applied for work. To-day is a holiday. To my polite request at the first farm I received the reply: Look here! In summer cherries grow and in winter vagabonds! Doubtless you gentlemen of the road would be glad to find a snug berth and a full dish at New Year's, but later, when the snow goes you '11 go too, and when the hard labour in the fields is most needed we should be left in the lurch. You 'd better join the Social Democrats! Perhaps you are one already! And the door was slammed in my face. It was a fine, large farm, situated on the high-road. It is a pity that they would not take me there. However, I secured material for a brilliant article on farming at no less than twenty Kreuzer a line. It will cost me as much as that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.