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Adopting An Abandoned Farm, by Kate Sanborn
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Title: Adopting An Abandoned Farm
Author: Kate Sanborn
Release Date: April 14, 2004 [EBook #12021]
Language: English
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Adopting An Abandoned Farm
BY KATE SANBORN
1891
CHAPTER I.
--FROM GOTHAM TO GOOSEVILLE II.--AUCTIONS III.--BUYING A HORSE IV.--FOR THOSE WHO LOVE PETS V.--STARTING A POULTRY FARM VI.--GHOSTS VII.--DAILY DISTRACTIONS VIII.--THE PROSE OF NEW ENGLAND FARM LIFE IX.--THE PASSING OF THE PEACOCKS X.--LOOKING BACK
An old farm-house with meadows wide, And sweet with clover on each side.
MARION DOUGLASS.
CHAPTER I.
FROM GOTHAM TO GOOSEVILLE.
I have now come to the farmer's life, with which I am exceedingly delighted, and which seems to me to belong especially to the life of a wise man.
CICERO.
Weary of boarding at seashore and mountain, tired of traveling in search of comfort, hating hotel life, I visited a country friend at Goos