Mr. Hutchinson's Clerk
by Frances Mary Schoolcraft
Horberg is a town on the east bank of the Hudson River, about forty miles above New York. One of the most considerable landed proprietors in the neighborhood was John Granger, a gentleman of good family and standing, who benefited mankind, not merely by making two blades of grass grow where one grew before, but by making scores of shorthorn calves grow where there were none before, and by leading the van in a spirited passage of arms concerning the merits of long wool and short wool, Paular… Read More