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The narrative traces a farmer’s life through a sequence of domestic and agrarian trials, opening with the difficult birth that ends a long period of childlessness and leads to medical intervention. After his first wife dies he marries the foreman’s robust daughter, whose successive pregnancies alter the household and the farm’s fortunes. The story observes the grind of rural labor, the impact of luck and economics on smallholding life, changing family dynamics, and how fertility and practical decisions reshape identity, work, and community over time.
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