The cheerful philosophizings of a young man who turns to nature and farm life to regain his health. Show Excerpt years. MYSELF: I don't think I shall want them cut out. HORACE: Humph. After a pause: HORACE: There's a lot of good body cord-wood in that oak on the knoll. MYSELF: Cord-wood! Why, that oak is the treasure of the whole farm, I have never seen a finer one. I could not think of cutting it. HORACE: It will bring you fifteen or twenty dollars cash in hand. MYSELF: But I rather have the oak. HORACE: Humph. So our ...
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The cheerful philosophizings of a young man who turns to nature and farm life to regain his health. Show Excerpt years. MYSELF: I don't think I shall want them cut out. HORACE: Humph. After a pause: HORACE: There's a lot of good body cord-wood in that oak on the knoll. MYSELF: Cord-wood! Why, that oak is the treasure of the whole farm, I have never seen a finer one. I could not think of cutting it. HORACE: It will bring you fifteen or twenty dollars cash in hand. MYSELF: But I rather have the oak. HORACE: Humph. So our conversation continued for some time. I let Horace know that I preferred rail fences, even old ones, to a wire fence, and that I thought a farm should not be too large, else it might keep one away from his friends. And what, I asked, is corn compared with a friend? Oh, I grew really oratorical! I gave it as my opinion that there should be vines around the house (Waste of time, said Horace), and that no farmer should permit anyone to paint medicine advertisements on his barn (Brings you ten dollars a year, said Horace), and that I proposed to
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