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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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After
my
experience
in
the
country,
if
I
were
to
be
cross-examined
as
to
the
requisites
of
a
farm,
I
should
say
that
the
chief
thing
to
be
desired
in
any
sort
of
agriculture,
is
good
health
in
the
farmer.
What,
after
all,
can
touch
that!
How
many
of
our
joys
that
we
think
intellectual
are
purely
physical!
This
joy
of
the
morning
that
the
poet
carols
about
so
cheerfully,
is
often
nothing
more
than
the
exuberance
produced
by
a
good
hot
breakfast.
Going
out
of
my
kitchen
door
some
mornings
and
standing
for
a
moment,
while
I
survey
the
green
and
spreading
fields
of
my
farm,
it
seems
to
me
truly
as
if
all
nature
were
making
a
bow
to
me.
It
seems
to
me
that
there
never
was
a
better
cow
than
mine,
never
a
more
really
perfect
horse,
and
as
for
pigs,
could
any
in
this
world
herald
my
approach
with
more
cheerful
gruntings
and
squealings!
But
there
are
other
requisites
for
a
farm.
It
must
not
be
too
large,
else
it
will
keep
you
away
from
your
friends.
Provide
a
town
not
too
far
off
(and
yet
not
too
near)
where
you
can
buy
your
flour
and
sell
your
grain.
If
there
is
a
railroad
convenient
(though
not
so
near
that
the
whistling
of
the
engines
reaches
you),
that
is
an
added
advantage.
Demand
a
few
good
old
oak
trees,
or
walnuts,
or
even
elms
will
do.
No
well-regulated
farm
should
be
without
trees;
and
having
secured
the
oaks--buy
your
fuel
of
your
neighbours.
Thus
you
will
be
blessed
with
beauty
both
summer
and
winter.
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