I HAD just been looking long and sadly at Holbein's plowman, and was walking through the fields, musing on rustic life and the destiny of the husbandman. It is certainly tragic for him to spend his days and his strength delving in the jealous earth, that so reluctantly yields up her rich treasures when a morsel of coarse black bread, at the end of the day's work, is the sole reward and profit to be reaped from such arduous toil. The wealth of the soil, the harvests, the fruits, the splendid cattle that grow sleek and fat in the luxuriant grass, are the property of the few, and but instruments...
I HAD just been looking long and sadly at Holbein's plowman, and was walking through the fields, musing on rustic life and the destiny of the husbandm...
An Unabridged Edition To Include Appendix: The Tillage Of The Soil - Father Maurice - Germain, The Skilled Husbandman - Mother Guillette - Petit-Pierre - On The Heath - Underneath The Big Oaks - The Evening Prayer - Despite The Cold - Beneath The Stars - The Belle Of The Village - The Master - The Old Woman - The Return To The Farm - Mother Maurice - Little Marie - APPENDIX: The Wedding Favors - The Wedding - The Cabbage
An Unabridged Edition To Include Appendix: The Tillage Of The Soil - Father Maurice - Germain, The Skilled Husbandman - Mother Guillette - Petit-Pierr...
