Mary Hallock Foote

A Touch of Sun, and Other Stories - Original Edition Mary Hallock Foote

The Asgard Company owned a square league of prehistoric titles on the western slope of the foot-hills, -land enough for the preservation of a natural park within its own boundaries where fire-lines were cleared, forest-trees respected, and roads kept up. Wherever the company erected a board fence, gate, or building, the same was methodically painted a color known as "monopoly brown." The most conspicuous of these objects cropped out on the sunset dip of the property where the woods for twenty years had been cut, and the Sacramento valley surges up in heat and glare, with yearly visitations of malaria