Five Acres Too Much: A Truthful Elucidation of the Attractions of the Country, and a Careful Consideration of the Question of Profit and Loss as Involved in Amateur Farming, with Much Valuable Advice and Instruction to Those about Purchasing Large Or Small Places in the Rural Districts. C By Robert B. Roosevelt ... |
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... even reading this book , without first perusing that one . To be sure , the author forgets occasionally some minor matters - such as clothing , food , and the like , leaving his family naked and unfed for several A 2 IT ...
... even reading this book , without first perusing that one . To be sure , the author forgets occasionally some minor matters - such as clothing , food , and the like , leaving his family naked and unfed for several A 2 IT ...
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... clothes off the lines , and drag * H M them around in the most nonchalant and unconcern- ed way conceivable ; would even now and then get her horns mixed up with the lines generally , and pull out half a dozen hooks ; but the moment ...
... clothes off the lines , and drag * H M them around in the most nonchalant and unconcern- ed way conceivable ; would even now and then get her horns mixed up with the lines generally , and pull out half a dozen hooks ; but the moment ...
Page 32
... clothes and clothes - lines , her feed cost thirty dollars a month , and the man's attendance six more . So long as she kept on giving twelve quarts a day , there was a clear prof- it of four cents daily , besides the thorough manuring ...
... clothes and clothes - lines , her feed cost thirty dollars a month , and the man's attendance six more . So long as she kept on giving twelve quarts a day , there was a clear prof- it of four cents daily , besides the thorough manuring ...
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... clothes on the lines , when the sun began to grow hot in the spring , or of lying at full length in their shade , that was evidently conducive to corpulency . When she wanted her meals , which she did not only at frequent intervals ...
... clothes on the lines , when the sun began to grow hot in the spring , or of lying at full length in their shade , that was evidently conducive to corpulency . When she wanted her meals , which she did not only at frequent intervals ...
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... clothes ; and when a murder was committed near by , and the murderer was hunted through the place by constables , officers , and half the people as posse comitatus , accompanied by all the dogs in the vil- lage ; and the crowd , yelling ...
... clothes ; and when a murder was committed near by , and the murderer was hunted through the place by constables , officers , and half the people as posse comitatus , accompanied by all the dogs in the vil- lage ; and the crowd , yelling ...
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