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Excerpt from The American Messenger, Vol. 70: January, 1912 No tobacco was raised at Locust Lane. The soil was especially adapted to corn, and of that great crops were grown. Eleanor tried stock raising, thus utilizing much of the corn crop for feeding pur poses. She made butter, shipping it to the city, and thus commanding a fine price. The boys raised vegetables and melons for market. The home life of the Gordon family was almost ideal. Sometimes there were differences between the children and occasionally they quarreled, for they were like other children. Still they stood loyally one by another. Felix explained the situa tion one day, when he thrashed a boy for dropping a caterpillar down Laurel's neck during the recess hour at school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.