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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... HORSE AND A PIG . WHICH IS THE NOBLER ANIMAL ? Beauties of the Pig . - Defects of the Horse . - The dearest Pig and the dearest Horse , each in their way . - A haunted House , and the Effect of Ghosts on Horses . - The Ghost Story CONTENTS.
... HORSE AND A PIG . WHICH IS THE NOBLER ANIMAL ? Beauties of the Pig . - Defects of the Horse . - The dearest Pig and the dearest Horse , each in their way . - A haunted House , and the Effect of Ghosts on Horses . - The Ghost Story CONTENTS.
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... Horses . - The Ghost Story precisely as it oc- curred . - Are Ghosts liable to Damages when they frighten Horses into fits of running away ? -Equine Eccentricities . - Practical Play- fulness ..... ..Page 61 CHAPTER IV . THE COUNTRY ...
... Horses . - The Ghost Story precisely as it oc- curred . - Are Ghosts liable to Damages when they frighten Horses into fits of running away ? -Equine Eccentricities . - Practical Play- fulness ..... ..Page 61 CHAPTER IV . THE COUNTRY ...
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... Horse . He closes his Career by a wonderful Feat in draw- ing Teeth ...... ..Page 233 CHAPTER XVIII . PREPARATIONS FOR REMOVAL . The window Garden . - Warm Work . - Immense Resources of Sci- ence . - Mind against Matter . - What can the ...
... Horse . He closes his Career by a wonderful Feat in draw- ing Teeth ...... ..Page 233 CHAPTER XVIII . PREPARATIONS FOR REMOVAL . The window Garden . - Warm Work . - Immense Resources of Sci- ence . - Mind against Matter . - What can the ...
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... horses had to be had , of course , but need not bother one till the last moment ; but a cow was a creature that must be taken when a good one offered . Moreover , I have a weakness for cows : it is a purely theoretical interest , for my ...
... horses had to be had , of course , but need not bother one till the last moment ; but a cow was a creature that must be taken when a good one offered . Moreover , I have a weakness for cows : it is a purely theoretical interest , for my ...
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... Horses are miserable creatures , invariably do- ing precisely what they ought not to do , kicking when they ought to go , going when they ought to stand still , balking when their owner is in the most frantic haste ; forever sick , or ...
... Horses are miserable creatures , invariably do- ing precisely what they ought not to do , kicking when they ought to go , going when they ought to stand still , balking when their owner is in the most frantic haste ; forever sick , or ...
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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,