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Find a comfortable spot.

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Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go.

Tonight we're relaxing with a work recommended by one of your fellow listeners, and it's a book that proves that the wish to escape the pressures of modern life and run away to the country is not a new idea at all.

We're reading, 10 acres enough a practical experience showing how a very small farm may be

made to keep a very large family,

with extensive and profitable experience

in the cultivation of the smaller fruits.

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