ON THE DIVIDE by WILLA CATHER

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales.
0:34.2	This is your host, John Hagdorn.
0:36.2	Today, a great short story by Willicather.
0:39.6	This is from her book collection called
0:41.2	The Troll Garden and Selected Stories. The title of today's story is On the Divide.
0:45.0	The title of today's story is On the Divide. Near Rattlesnake Creek on the side of a little draw stood Canute's Shady.
0:59.0	North, East, south stretched the level Nebraska plain of long rest red grass that undulated constantly in the wind.
1:08.1	To the west, the ground was broken and rough, and a narrow strip of timber wound along the turbid muddy little stream that had scarcely
1:15.6	ambition enough to crawl over its black bottom. If it had not been for the few stunted cottonwoods
1:21.4	and elms that grew along its banks, Knut would have shot himself years ago.
1:26.5	The Norwegians are a timber-loving people, and if there is even a turtle pond with a few plum bushes
1:31.4	around it, they seem irresistibly drawn toward it.
1:34.4	As to the Jante itself, Canute had built it without aid of any kind.
1:38.8	For when he first squatted along the banks of Rattlesnake Creek,
1:42.0	there was not a human being within 20 miles.
1:45.6	It was built of logs split in halves.
1:48.1	The chinks stopped with mud and plaster.
1:50.9	The roof was covered with earth and was supported by one gigantic beam carved in the shape of a round arch.
1:57.0	It was almost impossible that any tree had ever grown in that shape.
2:01.0	The Norweians used to say that canoeed a tick in the log across his knee and bent it into the shape you wished. There were two rooms, or rather there was one room, with a partition made of ash saplings interwoven and bound together like big straw basket work.
2:16.2	In one corner there was a cook stove, rusted and broken.
2:20.0	In the other a bed made of unplained planks and poles.
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