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and he was losing enthusiasm ; business cares 

 were becoming thicker rather than otherwise. 

 Notes had to be met which caused him constant 

 anxiety. He could take no pleasure in life. One 

 day a friend suggested to him to drop the whole 

 effort for a fortune and try for a comfortable 

 living in quieter, less ambitious, but safer fields. 

 He took the advice and sold out his business, 

 realizing two thousand dollars, with which sum 

 he bought a little place of ten acres eight 

 miles from Philadelphia, and planted it mostly 

 with strawberries. The book gives the results 

 of five years' work, with figures showing exactly 

 what money came in and what went out. At 

 the end of the five years he had recovered 

 health and spirits ; he had kept his family in 

 comfort ; he had lived an out-door life of far 

 more interest to himself than any business life 

 could have been ; and he found his property 

 more valuable and his bank account larger than 

 when he began. I confess that once having 

 plunged into " Ten Acres Enough " I read the 

 book through with more eager interest than if 

 it had been the most absorbing novel. Here 

 was what I had been looking for. I loved sun- 

 shine, I was fond of gardening, I had a passion 



