Growth of the Soil
by Knut Hamsun
⇥ The worst of his task had been to find the place; this no-man's place, but his. Now, there was work to fill his days. He started at once, stripping birch bark in the woods farther off, while the sap was still in the trees. The bark he pressed and dried, and when he had gathered a heavy load, carried it all the miles back to the village, to be sold for building. Then back to the hillside, with new sacks of food and implements; flour and pork, a cooking-pot, a spade - out and back along the way he had come, carrying loads all the time. A born carrier of loads, a lumbering barge of a man in the forest - oh, as if he loved his calling, tramping long roads and carrying heavy burdens; as if life without a load upon one's shoulders were a miserable thing, no life for him.🏁
Submitted by ColorfulToucans - 06/16/2025
Book Literature 5.66 Ranked
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Growth of the Soil
by Knut Hamsun
⇥ The worst of his task had been to find the place; this no-man's place, but his. Now, there was work to fill his days. He started at once, stripping birch bark in the woods farther off, while the sap was still in the trees. The bark he pressed and dried, and when he had gathered a heavy load, carried it all the miles back to the village, to be sold for building. Then back to the hillside, with new sacks of food and implements; flour and pork, a cooking-pot, a spade - out and back along the way he had come, carrying loads all the time. A born carrier of loads, a lumbering barge of a man in the forest - oh, as if he loved his calling, tramping long roads and carrying heavy burdens; as if life without a load upon one's shoulders were a miserable thing, no life for him.🏁
Submitted by ColorfulToucans - 06/16/2025
Book Literature 5.66 Ranked