Abstract

In the Driftway

The article comments on the life in a wide country named Junkerland. In this wide country, with its low rolling hills of beech and white birch and hemlock, where the ground is sand where it is solid and peat-bog where it is not, things are as they used to be. The host of the author have lived seven hundred years on this estate. Junkers may not be good political neighbors, but they are mighty nice to their friends. Baroness makes with her own hands a Christmas present for every child on the estate and there are twenty-five families, many of them large. Everything for the household is a home product, an old peasant woman still weaves the family towels, the lady of the manor superintends all the sausage-making and they bake their own bread in straw-heated stone ovens.