Description: The Friends of Meager Fortune David Adams Richards is available to download David Adams Richards has done a terrific job of describing the mid-twentieth century Canadian lumber industry.This material is available do download at niSearch.com on David Adams Richards's eBooks, He has provided the reader with a wonderful cast of characters who are all affected by a vicious rumor.The Friends of Meager ... Textbook I wanted to reach inside the book and shake the characters, who not only believed the rumor, but did nothing to find the truth. Two soldiers become involved with a woman married to one, but attracted to the hero. When her husband disappears, the rumor spreads through the small town. In the meantime, the logging goes on, the loggers endure the treacherous terrain to get the logs to the river, the valiant horses perform their duties, and the Canadian winter provides unbearably harsh conditions for the loggers. The story includes a faux murder that gets tied into the original rumor, the hero of the story is accused of the murder on the basis of the discovery of a mutilated and unidentified body. All the while, Meager Fortune, who does not appear until well into the story, is taking care of the loggers on the mountain. He is the one who discovers the betrayal of one of the loggers who is tagging the logs with a competitor's stamp. But he does not report this betrayal. In the end, the hero dies an heroic death, and the long-lost...

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