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David Grew. Beyond Rope and Fence
Beyond Rope and Fence
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. FOR THE LOVE OF HER FOAL
CHAPTER II. TO THE NORTH!
CHAPTER III. DEATH IN THE HOWL OF COYOTES
CHAPTER IV. A SEEKING THAT FOUND
CHAPTER V. MAN, THE USURPER
CHAPTER VI. HOW MAN BREAKS THE SPIRIT AND THE BODY
CHAPTER VII. THE CONSPIRACY OF MAN AND COYOTE
CHAPTER VIII. RETRIBUTION
CHAPTER IX. SLOWLY MAN CREPT NORTHWARD
CHAPTER X. THE DOORS OF THE TRAP SHUT
CHAPTER XI. ROPE, IRON AND FIRE
CHAPTER XII. THE STRENGTH OF THE WEAK
CHAPTER XIII. LABOUR WITHOUT LOVE OR WAGE
CHAPTER XIV. ONLY JUSTICE HAD BEEN DONE
CHAPTER XV. THE TRAIL OF THE MOOSE
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David Grew
Published by Good Press, 2021
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All that clamour of pain and struggle could not disturb the mist-like loneliness that brooded over the far-reaching distance. On the other side of the river, visible beyond less rugged banks, stretched a lifeless country of hills and plains, so desolate and so motionless that the very stones that dotted them seemed with their feeble reflections to be futilely protesting against their destitution.
A pause came to the torturous struggle. The gate of the first corral was opened and the sickened little colts shambled out into the open where their frantic mothers caressed them, then led them away to the east. The men walked off and disappeared in the house. Taking advantage of the silence and the respite, the still captive colts, one after another, took to sucking. It was not very long, however, before they were interrupted by the reappearance of the men. The skin on every captive began to tremble and the eight mothers with their eight colts packed into one corner.
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