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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... earth - the Eden of a country village - has none of these drawbacks . An invigorating breeze blows over pure salt marshes ; Germans do not trespass nor make one afraid ; no man residing there has ever INTRODUCTION . xi.
... earth - the Eden of a country village - has none of these drawbacks . An invigorating breeze blows over pure salt marshes ; Germans do not trespass nor make one afraid ; no man residing there has ever INTRODUCTION . xi.
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... earth with a thrust of her horns ; and if she found the stable , which was of wood , close and un- comfortable , she now and then walked out of it through the side , but did these things in so uncon- scious a way that no one could find ...
... earth with a thrust of her horns ; and if she found the stable , which was of wood , close and un- comfortable , she now and then walked out of it through the side , but did these things in so uncon- scious a way that no one could find ...
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... , and the wagon came upon his heels . What then happened I do not precisely know ; he seemed to fly ; occasion- ally he would appear to rise above the trees , and then to descend into the bowels of the earth ; MORE LIVE - STOCK . 71.
... , and the wagon came upon his heels . What then happened I do not precisely know ; he seemed to fly ; occasion- ally he would appear to rise above the trees , and then to descend into the bowels of the earth ; MORE LIVE - STOCK . 71.
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... earth ; he leaped from side to side of the road with an ease and rapidity that would have shamed a well - practiced kangaroo ; the wagon bounded after him like the tail to a boy's kite when the latter gets pitching about with the ...
... earth ; he leaped from side to side of the road with an ease and rapidity that would have shamed a well - practiced kangaroo ; the wagon bounded after him like the tail to a boy's kite when the latter gets pitching about with the ...
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... earth , and jumped it up and down at the risk of dashing it to pieces against the stone sides , in order to fill it , and then puffed over the heavy pull of bringing it , laden with the cooling crystal , to the sur- face . With due ...
... earth , and jumped it up and down at the risk of dashing it to pieces against the stone sides , in order to fill it , and then puffed over the heavy pull of bringing it , laden with the cooling crystal , to the sur- face . With due ...
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Page i - 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. By ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT, Author of "Game Fish of North America," "Superior Fishing," "Game Birds,