The Troll Garden and Selected Stories

The Troll Garden and Selected Stories

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The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather

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1903

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The Bohemian Girl'A Death in the Desert'The Enchanted BluffEric Hermannson's SoulFlavia and her ArtistsThe Garden LodgeThe Marriage of PhaedraOn the DividePaul's CaseThe Sculptor's FuneralA Wagner MatineeIntroduction copyright (c) 1990 by Rita Mae Brown.

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bunch grass in the miles of red shaggy prairie that stretched before his cabin. He knew it in all the deceitful loveliness of its early summer, in all the bitter barrenness of its autumn. He had seen it smitten by all the plagues of Egypt. He had seen it parched by drought, and sogged by rain, beaten by hail, and swept by fire, and in the grasshopper years he had seen it eaten as bare and clean as bones that the vultures have left. After the great fires he had seen it stretch for miles and miles, black and smoking as the floor of hell.

He rose slowly and crossed the room, dragging his big feet heavily as though they were burdens to him. He looked out of the window into the hog corral and saw the pigs burying themselves in the straw before the shed. The leaden gray clouds were beginning to spill themselves, and the snow flakes were settling down over the white leprous patches of frozen earth where the hogs had gnawed even the sod away. He shuddered and began to walk, trampling heavily with his ungainly

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