The Reign of Law; a Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields
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As he was returning with his axe on his shoulder, the water on it having instantly frozen, he saw riding away across thestable lot, the one of their neighbors who was causing him so muchtrouble about the buying of the farm. He stopped hot with anger andwatched him. In those years a westward movement was taking place among theKentuckians--a sad exodus. Many families rendered insolvent or bankruptby the war and the loss of their slaves, while others interspersedamong them had grown richer by Gove...rnment contracts, were now beingbought out, forced out, by debt or mortgage, and were seeking new homeswhere lay cheaper lands and escape from the suffering of living on, ruined, amid old prosperous acquaintances. It was a profound historicdisturbance of population, destined later on to affect profoundly manyyounger commonwealths. This was the situation now bearing heavily onDavid's father, on three sides of whose fragmentary estate lay richneighbors, one of whom especially desired it. The young man threw his axe over his shoulder again and took a linestraight toward the house.
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