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LENOX ROBINSON
HARVEST
1
HURLEY, an old farmer,
slaves all his life and mortgages his farm
in order to enable his children to lead an
idle, parasitic life.
Started on this road toward so-called culture by
the school-master. William Lordan, Hurley s chil
dren leave their father s farm and in due time es
tablish themselves in society as priest, lawyer, sec
retary and chemist, respectively.
The secretary son is ashamed of his lowly origin
and denies it. The lawyer son is much more con
cerned with his motor car than with the condition
of the farm that has helped him on his feet. The
priest has departed for America, there to collect
funds for Church work. Only Maurice, the
youngest son of Timothy Hurley, remains at home
as the farm drudge, the typical man with the hoe.
Jack Hurley, the chemist, and Timothy s only
daughter Mary, retain some loyalty to the old
place, but when they return after an absence of
years, they find themselves out of touch with farm
life, and they too turn their back on their native
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