Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

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

Tonight let's continue our appreciation of the simple life with more from 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 by Edmund Morris Fruits by Edmond Morris, 8th Edition, published in 1866 by James Miller, New York.

Let's pick up right where we left off.

Chapter 4

Buying a farm, a long search,

anxiety to sell, forced to quit.

Let's begin.

I had in round numbers a clear $2,000 with which to buy and stock a farm and keep my family

while my first crops were growing, as I was entirely free from debt, so I determined to avoid

it in the future.

Debt had been the bitter portion of my life, not from choice but of necessity.

My wife took strong ground in support of this resolution. What we had she wanted us to keep. I had too long been aided by

her admirable counsel to reject it now. She had a singular longing for seeing me my own landlord. Her

resolution was a powerful strengthener of my own convictions.

Thus resolved, we set out in the early part of March to seek a home.

I was particular to take my wife with me. I wanted her to aid in choosing it. She was to occupy it as well as myself. She knew exactly what we wanted as regarded the dwelling house.

The land department she left entirely to my judgment. I was determined that she should be made comfortable from the start,

not only because she deserved to be made so, but to make sure that no cause for future discontent should arise.

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