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... town road which separates my farm from my near- est neighbour's , I saw a field , familiar , yet strangely new and unfamiliar , lying up to the setting sun , all red with autumn , above it the incalculable heights of the sky , blue ...
... town road which separates my farm from my near- est neighbour's , I saw a field , familiar , yet strangely new and unfamiliar , lying up to the setting sun , all red with autumn , above it the incalculable heights of the sky , blue ...
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... was an intrusion upon my property . Intrusion : and the Professor ! It is now unthinkable . I often passed the Car- pentry Shop on my way to town . I saw Baxter many times at his bench . Even then Baxter's eyes attracted me : 9 BUY A FARM.
... was an intrusion upon my property . Intrusion : and the Professor ! It is now unthinkable . I often passed the Car- pentry Shop on my way to town . I saw Baxter many times at his bench . Even then Baxter's eyes attracted me : 9 BUY A FARM.
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... town was a useful adjunct for a farm ; but I laid it down as a principle that no town should be too near a farm . I finally became so enthusiastic in setting forth my con- ceptions of a true farm that I reduced Horace to a series of ...
... town was a useful adjunct for a farm ; but I laid it down as a principle that no town should be too near a farm . I finally became so enthusiastic in setting forth my con- ceptions of a true farm that I reduced Horace to a series of ...
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... town . And the air had a tang which got into a man's blood and set him chanting all the poetry he ever knew . " I climb that was a clod , I run whose steps were slow , I reap the very wheat of God That once had none to sow ! " So I ...
... town . And the air had a tang which got into a man's blood and set him chanting all the poetry he ever knew . " I climb that was a clod , I run whose steps were slow , I reap the very wheat of God That once had none to sow ! " So I ...
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... town . I was busy with errands , my mind fully engaged , but suddenly I caught an odour from somewhere within the building I was passing . I stopped ! It was as if in that moment I lost twenty years of my life : I was a boy again ...
... town . I was busy with errands , my mind fully engaged , but suddenly I caught an odour from somewhere within the building I was passing . I stopped ! It was as if in that moment I lost twenty years of my life : I was a boy again ...
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