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By the last of March the grain had all been sown and the first of the planting was beginning to force its tender shoots through the surface. The sun was growing brighter with each day and everything pointed to an early spring.
Travis Gully, with his wife and children, toiled early and late, making the best of the favorable season. Grudgingly the