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Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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o twenty-five dollars an acre for the land, about two-thirds of which grows crops, while the restis orchard and pasture land. The farm-hands, half a dozen in number, live insolid little cottages on the road below withtheir own potato patch at their back door.Hodges pays them about four dollars aweek and furnishes them fuel and cider.Much of this Hodges tells me in inter-mittent jerks of volubility while he andJeemes, the boy, milk the ten or a dozencows in the sheds, and feed and water thestock, and turn out the sheep and cows andcalves into pasture in broad fields beyondthe sheds or in broader fields far down theroad. He is by nature a silent man bredin the silences of the moor, but his pridestirs his tongue now and then over his newAmerican machinery and the yield of hisbroad acres, over which he toils from dawntill dark in spite of his seventy-five years.This is his world and he never has been outof it even as far as Exeter or Plymouth.He is proud of his cows, South Devons, and 678
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In good old Devonshire.

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