yiii Preface 



It is not my purpose, in this volume, to assist in 

 effecting a back-to-the-land movement, but rather 

 to present, in, it is hoped, an entertaining way, 

 the pleasurable side of farm life, as I knew it, as 



a boy and youth. 



A. C. Wood. 

 St. Maeys, Ont., 

 Canada. 



