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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... thought ship - stuff was an excellent change of diet ; that they liked hay , turnips , carrots , potato - peelings , bread , slops of all kinds that were not greasy ; that they were not fed oats , and required no exercise and no care in ...
... thought ship - stuff was an excellent change of diet ; that they liked hay , turnips , carrots , potato - peelings , bread , slops of all kinds that were not greasy ; that they were not fed oats , and required no exercise and no care in ...
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... thoughts possessed my soul . I seem- ed to see a dagger " with its handle to my hand , ” which looked much like a butcher's knife , and there was an estrangement springing up between us that might have terminated fatally had not the ...
... thoughts possessed my soul . I seem- ed to see a dagger " with its handle to my hand , ” which looked much like a butcher's knife , and there was an estrangement springing up between us that might have terminated fatally had not the ...
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... thoughts ; but it grew prodig- iously , and she had a way of standing still by the hour , with her head under the 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 ...
... thoughts ; but it grew prodig- iously , and she had a way of standing still by the hour , with her head under the 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 ...
Page 67
... thought he heard a cry of distress , and , at last be- coming uneasy , determined to visit his dulcinea's win- dow , and ask her how she did . Tying his horses , he crept quietly along the shady side of the hedge , which was that on the ...
... thought he heard a cry of distress , and , at last be- coming uneasy , determined to visit his dulcinea's win- dow , and ask her how she did . Tying his horses , he crept quietly along the shady side of the hedge , which was that on the ...
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... thought produced a pleasing effect . Before these dispositions were determined on , the grass had grown considerably , the spring being early , and to get rid of it , as " Bridgeman's Assistant , " which , with “ Ten Acres Enough ...
... thought produced a pleasing effect . Before these dispositions were determined on , the grass had grown considerably , the spring being early , and to get rid of it , as " Bridgeman's Assistant , " which , with “ Ten Acres Enough ...
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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,