A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



So it was arranged that I should send up 

 fifty chicks and six baby rabbits, for which 

 he would give me $14.50. Then, as a sudden 

 thought, he remarked : 



'You don't happen to have any Maltese 

 kittens, do you?" 



''Yes; four," I replied. 



"Well, I'll give you a dollar each for them." 



I said he could have three, for of course 

 I couldn't take all of Graykins' kittens away 

 from her at once. 



That $17.50 was invested in Peruvian 

 cavies and two more white rabbits, so start- 

 ing pets as money-makers. By spending 

 merely the money saved through the pro- 

 duction of the home, on the home, it became 

 entirely self-supporting by the seventeenth 

 month. Three months later there was a 

 surplus profit each month not much, cer- 

 tainly, but enough to prove that we had the 

 foundation of a business in our home, should 

 we at any time become entirely dependent 

 upon it. 



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