Every one of these townships has a history beginning in
the East, or in Scandinavia, or Germany, or the South. We are a result
of lines of effect which draw together into our story; and we are a
cause of a future of which no man can form a conjecture.
The prairies took me, an ignorant, orphaned canal hand, and made me
something much better. How much better it is not for me to say. The best
prayer I can utter now is that it may do as well with my children and
grandchildren, with the tenants on these rich farms, and the farm-hands
that help till them, and with the owners who find that expensive land is
just like expensive clothes:--merely something you must have, and must
pay heavily for.
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