UNDERSTAND, this is the 

 story of an actual farm, not a 

 "gentleman's country place;" 

 and, though it lies ten miles from a 

 railway station, no less a lemon, the 

 owner and active head of it is likewise 

 head of a business international in 

 scope, with main offices on Broad 

 Street, New York City. The business, 

 public accounting, demands, impera- 

 tively, far- sighted, clear judgment 

 and intense concentration of mind 

 things well nigh impossible unless the 

 mind has the backing of a sound body. 

 To maintain this saving bodily sound- 

 ness in the days before the farm, the 

 farmer man spent half his leisure on 

 horseback. That was a bit costly, 

 withal tiresome. One wearies of the 

 finest bridle-path or parkway if one 



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