THE PRACTICAL COUNTRY 

 GENTLEMAN 



CHAPTER I 

 INTRODUCTORY 



NO business man would be satisfied with a 

 shop or an office which merely paid ex- 

 penses; but there are Innumerable owners of 

 country places who find themselves annually 

 confronted with a large deficit, and derive no 

 comfort except from the thought that their acres 

 have yielded more than sufficient Interest and 

 amusement to compensate for any pecuniary 

 loss. 



If, then, these unnecessary annual losses could 

 only be turned to profit, how much more in- 

 teresting would the running of such a place be I 

 And surely, to men accustomed to business prln- 



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