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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... improving Railroad . - Educa- tion by Steam . - True Principles of Travel ... CHAPTER V. A WELL . 77 A Well , considered classically and otherwise . - A Cat in search of the Truth . - A Catastrophe . - Pumps and Vanities of Life . - A ...
... improving Railroad . - Educa- tion by Steam . - True Principles of Travel ... CHAPTER V. A WELL . 77 A Well , considered classically and otherwise . - A Cat in search of the Truth . - A Catastrophe . - Pumps and Vanities of Life . - A ...
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... improved by the experience . The completion of the repairs of the road was not followed by an immediate return to traditional punc- tuality . I remember reaching Hunter's Point one evening by the Twenty - third Street ferry " just in ...
... improved by the experience . The completion of the repairs of the road was not followed by an immediate return to traditional punc- tuality . I remember reaching Hunter's Point one evening by the Twenty - third Street ferry " just in ...
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... before it was finished one or more Irishmen would have to work waist deep in the water , which would not recover from their presence for a long while ; but , instead of improving , it became worse and worse . At A WELL . 89.
... before it was finished one or more Irishmen would have to work waist deep in the water , which would not recover from their presence for a long while ; but , instead of improving , it became worse and worse . At A WELL . 89.
Página 90
... improving , it became worse and worse . At first it tasted badly , but it soon smelt unendurably . There was a great deal of house - cleaning and washing to do , but the women finally rebelled , and flatly refused to use the odoriferous ...
... improving , it became worse and worse . At first it tasted badly , but it soon smelt unendurably . There was a great deal of house - cleaning and washing to do , but the women finally rebelled , and flatly refused to use the odoriferous ...
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... improved , and the pump was finally completed . To be sure , the maker could not spare time to put it up , but other men were readily engaged , and one evening , on my return from the city , I found it duly installed in its place , look ...
... improved , and the pump was finally completed . To be sure , the maker could not spare time to put it up , but other men were readily engaged , and one evening , on my return from the city , I found it duly installed in its place , look ...
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