66 LIBERTY AND A LIVING. 



small fruits, and wood for open fires. The man 

 who, having managed to obtain a little place of 

 his own, even if not more than an acre or two 

 in extent, will be singularly unfortunate in my 

 opinion, or will work with bad judgment, if he 

 does not succeed in providing for his family all 

 the vegetables, both for winter and summer, 

 that they can use, all the small fruits, all the 

 eggs and chickens, and, if he is on the sea-shore, 

 all the shell-fish that the neighborhood affords. 

 To go into details, and taking my own case 

 because, having done what I have done without 

 much special knowledge and no apprentice- 

 ship, so to speak, any one else animated with 

 a love of out-door work will be able to do as 

 much, or more, here is a list of the things which 

 I have been able to provide in sufficient quan- 

 tity for a large family: vegetables in profu- 

 sion throughout the summer, and enough for a 

 large part of the winter; strawberries and small 

 fruits, more than could be used ; ten times the 

 honey that could be used winter and summer, 

 the honey sold being part of the actual money 

 income of the year ; during autumn and early 

 winter, all the oysters and crabs that the family 

 could be prevailed upon to eat, the children at 



