Hill of Grace (2004)
“Sitting in a large copper tub Bluma would later use to wash their clothes in, he watched as the skin on each of his ten toes wrinkled and turned pale. ‘Don’t drown in there,’ his mother screamed. ‘Some of us have work to do.’ It was a busy time for William too. He’d decided to follow up some early rain by seeding two of his three stock paddocks. As he harnessed an old mare he’d kept from the knackery, he saw his son run half-naked from the wash-house, Bluma flicking him with a tea-towel and lau...ghing. Sighing, William backed up the mare to Bruno’s seeder, its seed bin nearly rusted through, and filled the American contraption with a mix of Machete wheat and vetch in a ratio Riedel the seed merchant had suggested. He’d been doing it this way for years, with mixed success. Robert had been the first Muller to go mechanical, giving up on Anthelm’s method of hand-sowing improved pasture, hand reaping and stooking and stacking bales under a leaky green tarp.
One year, as William was stirring a mix of peas and barley in the seeder, he looked up to see a group of soldiers with rifles running towards him.MoreLess
One year, as William was stirring a mix of peas and barley in the seeder, he looked up to see a group of soldiers with rifles running towards him.MoreLess
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