Breakdown

By Herbert D. Kastle

How are you going to keep them down on the farm—after they've seen the truth?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781515405894

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Breakdown

By Herbert D. Kastle

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Breakdown

By Herbert D. Kastle

How are you going to keep them down on the farm—after they've seen the truth?

He didn’t know exactly when it had started, but it had been going on for weeks. Edna begged him to see the doctor living in that new house two miles past Dugan’s farm, but he refused. He point-blank refused to admit he was sick that way—in the head!

Of course, a man could grow forgetful. He had to admit there were moments when he had all sorts of mixed-up memories and thoughts in his mind. And sometimes—like right now, lying in bed beside Edna, watching the first hint of light touch the windows—he began sweating with fear. A horrible, gut-wrenching fear, all the more horrible because it was based on nothing.

The chicken-run came alive; the barn followed minutes later. There were chores to do, the same chores he’d done all his forty-one years. Except that now, with the new regulations about wheat and corn, he had only a vegetable patch to farm. Sure, he got paid for letting the fields remain empty. But it just didn’t seem right, all