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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... dollar apiece , explaining that it must not be wasted in liquor , to which they assent- ed with great hilarity . Alas for sympathy , and char- ity , and the milk of human kindness ! those wretch- ed men immediately clubbed their two dollars ...
... dollar apiece , explaining that it must not be wasted in liquor , to which they assent- ed with great hilarity . Alas for sympathy , and char- ity , and the milk of human kindness ! those wretch- ed men immediately clubbed their two dollars ...
Page 59
... dollars a day ; but that would hardly have accorded with the proverbial honesty of Nan's dower island . I concluded to hire a house near by , which , al- though not the one I expected to occupy , was doubt- less as good , and had the ...
... dollars a day ; but that would hardly have accorded with the proverbial honesty of Nan's dower island . I concluded to hire a house near by , which , al- though not the one I expected to occupy , was doubt- less as good , and had the ...
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... dollars each to have had sixty minutes less of life , whereas the wretch on the scaffold would give five thousand ... dollar to five . Men became disgusted , women exhausted , and chil- dren irrepressible ; but still no train . When I ...
... dollars each to have had sixty minutes less of life , whereas the wretch on the scaffold would give five thousand ... dollar to five . Men became disgusted , women exhausted , and chil- dren irrepressible ; but still no train . When I ...
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... dollars and a half a foot . As the ordinary price was about a dollar , it was certainly honest of him to explain beforehand the necessities of his situation ; and although it was inconvenient that the villagers should have 86 FIVE ACRES ...
... dollars and a half a foot . As the ordinary price was about a dollar , it was certainly honest of him to explain beforehand the necessities of his situation ; and although it was inconvenient that the villagers should have 86 FIVE ACRES ...
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... dollars and cents as well as health , merited the closest attention from so practical a per- son as myself , and was taken in hand promptly , and the account of my success carries me back a little in matter of time . E It was late in ...
... dollars and cents as well as health , merited the closest attention from so practical a per- son as myself , and was taken in hand promptly , and the account of my success carries me back a little in matter of time . E It was late in ...
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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,