On and on went the balloon over the city, and then across a wide stretch of farming land.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
The wild son did not take kindly to farming, and ran away; and his mother did not hear of him again until four years after she was living alone in The Locks, when a little girl five years old arrived, accompanied by a letter, stating that the son had lived a wanderer like his father, and that the child's mother being dead, he hoped Mrs. Wedge would take care of his daughter Betty until the father made his fortune.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
Alison, however, knew nothing of farming, and it was the house at which she gazed with most interest.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss