Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


Settling down at Carmel was an easy matter. The Iron Man had
already departed to his Catholic college, and the "shack" turned
out to be a three-roomed house comfortably furnished for
housekeeping. Hall put Billy to work on the potato patch--a
matter of three acres which the poet farmed erratically to the
huge delight of his crowd. He planted at all seasons, and it was
accepted by the community that what did not rot in the ground was
evenly divided between the gophers and trespassing cows. A plow
was borrowed, a team of horses hired, and Billy took hold. Also
he built a fence around the patch, and after that was set to
staining the shingled roof of the bungalow. Hall climbed to the
ridge-pole to repeat his warning that Billy must keep away from
his wood-pile. One morning Hall came over and watched Billy
chopping wood for Saxon. The poet looked on covetously as long as
he could restrain himself.

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