XXI THE WELCOME TEMPEST
XXII FIRST FRUITS
XXIII TOMATOES AND TROUBLE
XXIV "CORN THAT'S CORN"
XXV THE BARBECUE
XXVI SISTER'S TURKEYS
XXVII RUN TO EARTH
XXIX HARVEST
XXX ONE SNOWY MIDNIGHT
XXXI "MR. DAMOCLES'S SWORD"
XXXII THE CLOUD IS LIFTED
XXXIII "CELERY MAD"
XXXIV CLEANING UP A PROFIT
XXXV LOOKING AHEAD




CHAPTER I

THE CALL OF SPRING

"Well, after all, the country isn't such a bad place as some city
folk think."

The young fellow who said this stood upon the highest point of
the Ridge Road, where the land sloped abruptly to the valley in
which lay the small municipality of Crawberry on the one hand,
while on the other open fields and patches of woodland, in a huge
green-and-brown checkerboard pattern, fell more easily to the