A Deal in Wheat : Large Print

As Sam Lewiston backed the horse into the shafts of his backboard and began hitching the tugs to the whiffletree, his wife came out of the kitchen door and drew near, and stood for some time at the horse's head, her arms folded and her apron rolled around them.

For a long moment neither spoke. They had talked about the situation so long and so comprehensively the night before that there seemed to be nothing more to say.The time was late in the summer, a ranch in southwestern Kansas, and Lewiston and his wife were two of a large population of farmers, wheat growers, who were passing through a crisis at that time - a crisis that could at any moment culminate in tragedy.

Wheat was down to sixty - six.