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 ...Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1869 - 304 páginas |
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... - A Roof over one's Head . - Its Necessity , as well as Beauty . - A Fellow - feeling makes us willing to lend Shingles . - The latter End ............ 283 IT INTRODUCTION . T was in consequence of reading a viii CONTENTS .
... - A Roof over one's Head . - Its Necessity , as well as Beauty . - A Fellow - feeling makes us willing to lend Shingles . - The latter End ............ 283 IT INTRODUCTION . T was in consequence of reading a viii CONTENTS .
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... head to the first step , where she hesitated , and began to sniff suspiciously . The moment of action had evi- dently come , and I was about to shout to my support- ers , who had been carefully instructed as to their duties , " Up ...
... head to the first step , where she hesitated , and began to sniff suspiciously . The moment of action had evi- dently come , and I was about to shout to my support- ers , who had been carefully instructed as to their duties , " Up ...
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... and kept on increasing her complaints daily until they became unendurable . Neighbors put their heads out of windows , evidently meditating dire re- solves unless " something were done , and that short- 26 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
... and kept on increasing her complaints daily until they became unendurable . Neighbors put their heads out of windows , evidently meditating dire re- solves unless " something were done , and that short- 26 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH .
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... head . Besides , the amount of hay she ate seemed to have no effect in diminishing the quantity of mash she wanted ; rather she appeared to carry into practice the decep- tive proposition of the stingy father to his hungry sons that he ...
... head . Besides , the amount of hay she ate seemed to have no effect in diminishing the quantity of mash she wanted ; rather she appeared to carry into practice the decep- tive proposition of the stingy father to his hungry sons that he ...
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... 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 evidently conducive to corpulency . When she wanted her meals , which she did not only at frequent ...
... 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 evidently conducive to corpulency . When she wanted her meals , which she did not only at frequent ...
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appeared aquilegia formosa asparagus beautiful new coach became better Bridgeman called cauliflowers CHAPTER chickens churn Cloth cost cream crimson flax Cushy Dandy Jim Daniel O'Rourke peas Datura DATURA WRIGHTII dollars doubt DUTCH REPUBLIC early earth egg-plants eggs entire fact feathers feet five acres flowers flure Flushing French Revolution fresh fruit garden gourds Gran grass grew grow head horse inquired intirely Irish Irishmen JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT kitchen leaves look manure Marrott matter milk mind musquitoes Nantucket natural never occasionally onions Patrick piazza pig-pens plants pleasant pond pretty profit pump pups rain replied roof round SAMUEL SMILES season seedling seeds seemed skating spite spring strawberries summer sure thing tion trouble turnips vegetables verbenas village vols wagon waited wanted weeds Weeville Weeville's wonderful yer honor
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