eBooks - Literature - Classics - Olive Schreiner - Ralph Iron - Story Of An African Farm
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| At last came the year of the great drought, the year of eighteen-sixty-two. From end to end of the land the earth cried for water. Man and beast turned their eyes to the pitiless sky, that like the roof of some brazen oven arched overhead. On the farm, day after day, month after month, the water in the dams fell lower and lower; the sheep died in the fields; the cattle, scarcely able to crawl, tottered as they moved from spot to spot in search of food. |
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eBooks - Titles - Authors - Literature - Classics - Olive Schreiner - Ralph Iron - Story Of An African Farm