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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Page 58
... never stood any thing of the kind again . What with drunken Irishmen and injured work- men , murdered villagers and fighting firemen , the country house progressed slowly toward completion . The walls , it is true , arose like mushrooms ...
... never stood any thing of the kind again . What with drunken Irishmen and injured work- men , murdered villagers and fighting firemen , the country house progressed slowly toward completion . The walls , it is true , arose like mushrooms ...
Page 63
... never shrank from his duty ; he seemed to feel that the reputation of all pigdom rest- ed on him , and , no matter how often the trough was replenished , he was ever ready to renew his attacks . His sides were puffed out and rounded ...
... never shrank from his duty ; he seemed to feel that the reputation of all pigdom rest- ed on him , and , no matter how often the trough was replenished , he was ever ready to renew his attacks . His sides were puffed out and rounded ...
Page 67
... he held dearest in this world . Her lips would never again whisper words of love ; her heart had ceased to feel that passion which had proved her destruction . The lover's cries aroused the house , and MORE LIVE - STOCK . 67.
... he held dearest in this world . Her lips would never again whisper words of love ; her heart had ceased to feel that passion which had proved her destruction . The lover's cries aroused the house , and MORE LIVE - STOCK . 67.
Page 68
... never left him , heaped reproaches , and retaliated with curses on her whose curses seemed in his insanity to have caused this terrible calamity . Of the parties to this tragedy there were none liv- ing in three months ; they were ...
... never left him , heaped reproaches , and retaliated with curses on her whose curses seemed in his insanity to have caused this terrible calamity . Of the parties to this tragedy there were none liv- ing in three months ; they were ...
Page 73
... never knew . When I came to my ordinary senses , and escaped from what seemed to me like a blazing comet on a " bust , " I found myself on the top of a pile of soft dirt - that species of filth that the farmers obtain in D the city ...
... never knew . When I came to my ordinary senses , and escaped from what seemed to me like a blazing comet on a " bust , " I found myself on the top of a pile of soft dirt - that species of filth that the farmers obtain in D the city ...
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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,