A Son of the Soil

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Excerpt from A Son of the Soil: A NovelI'm of a different opinion, said the stranger, I don't like walking up to the ankles in those filthy roads.He was a boy of fifteen or so, the same age as young Colin, who stood Opposite him, breathing hard with opposition and natural enmity but the smart Etonian considered himself much more a man of the world and of experience than Colin the elder, and looked on the boy with calm contempt.I'll be glad to dry my boots if you'll let me, he said, holding up a foot which beside young Colin's sturdy hoof looked preter naturally small and dainty.A fit like a lassie's! The country boy said to himself with responsive disdain. Young Colin laughed half aloud as his natu ral enemy followed his father into the house.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.