The baby was born at Whitewater Farms about nine in the morning, April 19, 1900. Two pure-breed calves,--one a heifer, the other a bull,--were dropped the same day at nearly the same hour. For twenty years Odell’s marriage had been childless. He had waited in vain for a son,--for several sons,--and now, after twenty sterile years of hardship, drudgery, and domestic discord, Fanny had given him a girl.…
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