A LAND-LOVER AND HIS LAND 



there should ever be a surplus. Besides 

 the family and guests, there are hired 

 men to feed, also house-servants, to 

 say nothing of the fowls and pigs, the 

 dairy herd, the yoke of oxen, and the 

 horses, mules and colts. 



The farmer, albeit not even a 

 millionaire, prefers that insubstantial 

 increment, the joys of rest and of 

 living. Yet there is a substantial side 

 to it. He has bought more land, bits 

 here and there, until his holding is 

 above two hundred and fifty acres. 

 With the incursion of summer resi- 

 dents, and the consequent rise in real 

 estate, he could sell, and not merely 

 save himself whole, but have a very 

 handsome profit. Against the expenses 

 of maintenance there are offsets, very 

 considerable ones. In the days before 

 the farm, necessary horseback exercise 



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