HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 285 



to feed us and clothe us and make us comfor- 

 table, then there would be no particular use in 

 all this writing about it. If Happy Hollow 

 isn't paying its way, then it's just a luxury 

 such as anybody might enjoy if he had the 

 price, and I'd be deluding you by trying to 

 make it appear that it's anything else. The 

 fact that we've made a delightful home of it 

 wouldn't be enough to distinguish it ; for there 

 are many happy homes. Yes, we must sum up 

 the matter of farming for a living and the re- 

 turns in dollars and cents. 



The farm is giving us a good living. That 

 would better be said plainly and in few words. 

 Any day in the year we can set our table abun- 

 dantly with what our own land has produced. 

 Always there is plenty for our own needs and 

 for the pleasure of our friends. No prince of 

 the blood could fare better, for we have just 

 what we want to make us perfectly satisfied. 

 What we have is all so good that it couldn't be 

 any better. It comes to our table from within 

 arm's reach of our own doors, and everything 

 is of the best of its kind. 



I don't know how to express that by writing 

 a dollar mark with a row of figures after it. 

 If we were buying in the markets what we get 



