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I have now come to the farmer's life, with which I am exceedingly delighted, and which seems to me to belong especially to the life of a wise man. CICERO. Weary of boarding at seashore an… More...

I have now come to the farmer's life, with which I am exceedingly delighted, and which seems to me to belong especially to the life of a wise man. CICERO. Weary of boarding at seashore and mountain, tired of traveling in search of comfort, hating hotel life, I visited a country friend at Gooseville, Conn. (an assumed name for Foxboro, Mass.), and passed three happy weeks in her peaceful home. Far away at last from the garish horrors of dress, formal dinners, visits, and drives, the I have now come to the farmer's life, with which I am exceedingly delighted, and which seems to me to belong especially to the life of a wise man. CICERO. Weary of boarding at seashore and mountain, tired of traveling in search of comfort, hating hotel life, I visited a country friend at Gooseville, Conn. (an assumed name for Foxboro, Mass.), and passed three happy weeks in her peaceful home. Far away at last from the garish horrors of dress, formal dinners, visits, and drives, the inevitable and demoralizing gossip and scandal; far away from hotel piazzas, with their tedious accompaniments of corpulent dowagers, exclusive or inquisitive, slowly dying from too much food and too little exercise; ennuied spinsters; gushing buds; athletic collegians, cigarettes in mouths and hands in pockets; languid, drawling dudes; old bachelors, fluttering around the fair human flower like September butterflies; fancy work, fancy work, like Penelope's web, never finished; pug dogs of the aged and asthmatic variety. Everything there but MEN-they are wise enough to keep far away. Books, , Adopting-An-Abandoned-Farm~~Kate-Sanborn, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781443200394

[.]had agreed to sell for a profit! How he chuckled as he told of "one of them women who he guessed was a leetle crazy." "Why, jest think on't! I only paid ten cents for that hull lot on … More...

[.]had agreed to sell for a profit! How he chuckled as he told of "one of them women who he guessed was a leetle crazy." "Why, jest think on't! I only paid ten cents for that hull lot on the table yonder, and she" (pointing to me) "she gin me a quarter for that old pair o' tongs!" One day I heard some comments on myself after I had bid on a rag carpet and offered more than the other women knew it was worth. "She's got a million, I hear." "Wanter know-merried?" "No; just an [.]had agreed to sell for a profit! How he chuckled as he told of "one of them women who he guessed was a leetle crazy." "Why, jest think on't! I only paid ten cents for that hull lot on the table yonder, and she" (pointing to me) "she gin me a quarter for that old pair o' tongs!" One day I heard some comments on myself after I had bid on a rag carpet and offered more than the other women knew it was worth. "She's got a million, I hear." "Wanter know-merried?" "No; just an old maid." "Judas Priest! Howd she git it?" "Writin', I 'spoze. She writes love stories and sich for city papers. Some on 'em makes a lot." It is not always cheering to overhear too much. When some of my friends, whom I had taken to a favorite junk shop, felt after two hours of[.]". Books, , Adopting-An-Abandoned-Farm~~Kate-Sanborn, 999999999, Adopting an Abandoned Farm, Kate Sanborn, 1443200395, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781443200394

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