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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... , or 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 ...
... , or 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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... and turned out a more agreeable article than the most skillful chemical milkman . However disgrace- ful to human nature is the confession , science is no- where against a cow . To be sure , she 30 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
... and turned out a more agreeable article than the most skillful chemical milkman . However disgrace- ful to human nature is the confession , science is no- where against a cow . To be sure , she 30 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
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... sure , she would on wash - days carry a few 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 ...
... sure , she would on wash - days carry a few 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 ...
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... sure , of their fragile nature ; she would carry them on her head round about , and occasionally pin them to the earth with a thrust of her horns ; and if she found the stable , which was of wood , close and un- comfortable , she now ...
... sure , of their fragile nature ; she would carry them on her head round about , and occasionally pin them to the earth with a thrust of her horns ; and if she found the stable , which was of wood , close and un- comfortable , she now ...
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... Sure and didn't she lay down with me twelve times , and didn't I think every blessed time that she would niver get up again ? Her tongue hung out a yard , in spite of me watering her at every trough along the road . She kept me ever ...
... Sure and didn't she lay down with me twelve times , and didn't I think every blessed time that she would niver get up again ? Her tongue hung out a yard , in spite of me watering her at every trough along the road . She kept me ever ...
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