●   ●   ●    Baker himself had decided to sell the Bow farm, but that did not keep George’s departure from causing something of an uproar. The miniature tragedy—Mark outraged at the decision that left him without a son to help him, Albert summoned home from Hillsborough for consultation, the sympathetic mother and sisters arguing that George’s “health” required him to live in another climate—soon resolved itself into bucolic peace again.