The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields. James Lane Allen

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       James Lane Allen

      The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664608963

Table of Contents

       THE REIGN OF LAW

       HEMP

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

       XII

       XIII

       XIV

       XV

       XVI

       XVII

       XVIII

       XIX

       XX

       XXI

       XXII

       XXIII

      DEDICATION

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      TO THE MEMORY OF A FATHER AND MOTHER WHOSE SELF-SACRIFICE, HIGH

       SYMPATHY, AND DEVOTION THE WRITING OF THIS STORY HAS CAUSED TO LIVE

       AFRESH IN THE EVER-GROWING, NEVER-AGING, GRATITUDE OF THEIR SON

CHAPTER I	CHAPTER II	CHAPTER III	CHAPTER IV	CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI	CHAPTER VII	CHAPTER VIII	CHAPTER IX	CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI	CHAPTER XII	CHAPTER XIII	CHAPTER XIV	CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI	CHAPTER XVII	CHAPTER XVIII	CHAPTER XIX	CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI	CHAPTER XXII	CHAPTER XXIII

THE REIGN OF LAW

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HEMP

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      The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp—with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain. Away back in the days when they lived with wife, child, flock in frontier wooden fortresses and hardly ventured forth for water, salt, game, tillage—in the very summer of that wild daylight ride of Tomlinson and Bell, by comparison with which, my children, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, was as tame as the pitching of a rocking-horse in a boy's nursery—on that history-making twelfth of August, of the year 1782, when these two backwoods riflemen, during that same Revolution the Kentuckians then fighting a branch of that same British army, rushed out of Bryan's Station for the rousing of the settlements and the saving of the West—hemp was growing