THE SORT OF LIFE WE LEAD 



PERHAPS I cannot do better, in order to 

 tell the sort of life that I have found 

 possible and profitable upon an income of less 

 than $50 a month, than to take from my diary 

 the following record of a week. I will say 

 nothing of Sunday, as that day is always given 

 up by us to church-going, walking, and some- 

 times, in hot weather, to sailing and bathing, 

 in the morning at least. 



Monday, Sept. Pouring in torrents; took up a 

 bushel of beets and a bushel of carrots and put by 

 for winter use in the cellar. After breakfast went 

 off in a drizzle of rain sailing with the children to 

 Duck Island for a load of salt grass wherewith to 

 cover the strawberry bed next December. Got 

 enough in an hour, the children helping, to load 

 up. The rain in the meantime cleared off, the 

 wind coming from the southwest and cooler; 

 wheeled up the meadow grass from the boat and 

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