Hempfield

A Novel

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Hempfield is a novel by David Grayson. The contents list names chapters called, among others, I Discover the Printing-office, Anthy and The Explosion. Below a legend reading Hitch Your Wagon to the Star stands the name of the firm, Doane & Doane.

The narrator describes a long, low room with pasted pictures on the walls, a row of dingy cases at one side, and the press at the farther end. In the front window stands a row of potted geraniums and a yellow canary in a cage, and the editor's ancient chair is occupied by an old fat gray cat, curled up on a cushion and comfortably asleep. One scene describes thick yellow gingerbread made with molasses and perfect apple sauce from the earliest Red Astrakhans.