A Good Harvest
Samuel Eichelbaum
1933
For four years now he had been working the two hundred acres of farm land they had given him when he arrived in Argentina from Russia. The Roschpina colony of Entre Ríos was the most cheerful one in the area, but this fact didn’t affect his aversion to rural tasks. When he’d sailed for these lands, he’d agreed to accept the farm solely with the…
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