The Painted Door
by Sinclair Ross
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Straight across the hills it was five miles from John’s farm to his father’s. But
in winter, with the roads impassable, a team had to make a wide detour and skirt the
hills, so that from five the distance was more than trebled to seventeen.
“I think I’ll walk,” John said at breakfast to his wife. “The drifts in the hills
wouldn’t hold a horse, but they’ll carry me all…
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