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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 279
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Our Farm Of Four Jlcres, And The Js£Oney...
. are not tpo rich .: but they wisely refused this delightful alternative , and made their minds to seek a house some few miles out of
town , which up , should have a nursery and five good bed-chambers , a large gardenand three or four acres of land" for we must keep a
, , cow . " Thus much being settled they began to make short railway trips on all the lines put of the metropolis , finding nothing but
high rents and disappointment , and an apparent impossibility of procuring the accommodation they needed for anything approaching
to £ 60 a year . " Cottages " and " houses " proved alike fallacious : " Middlesex Hall "had a drawing-room opening into the little front
court , and a stone kitchen opening into the drawing-room : and when they asked a grand gentleman in Bond Street for the
addresses of residences rented from £ 50 to £ 70 yearly , he shut his book " felt mean with ' such 7 At an last air after of supreme long and contempt fruitless , search that the they two started ladies
on the South . Western line , to see a house which proved , as unfit for the reception of the large young family as any other : " from
the station to this place was four miles , and as , weary and hopeless , we were returning to itit occurred to us to ask the driver if he
knew of any houses to be let , in the vicinity . He considered , and then said he only knew of one , which had been vacant some time because
it was in a ' bad neighbourhood . ' The neighbourhood , however , here only prove was an d to old be fashioned that of small but cottages convenient just outside house the with gates p , lenty and
of good sized rooms in excellent , very repair , a very pretty flower , -garden , with green-house , good kitchen-garden of one acre , an orchard of
the same extent , well stocked with , fine fruit trees , three acres of houses good meado for cows w land , i an and excellent poultry coach all -house in good and order stabling . " And , with all
these . advantages But readers , , p wonderful are gs , warned to that relat it , e is , were quite to a mistake be had to for suppose £ 70 a year
that houses in the country near London are cheap ; the ladies had been asked £ 120 for much inferior placesand they found as a
, what general are rule calle that d ' good " houses situations within ' are fort nearl y or y fifty if mile not s quite of London as hi , g in h
, rented as those in the suburbs , and land worth quite as much . " The first farm work to which our ladies appear to have turned
their attention was the keeping of a cow ; a black Welsh cow , by name " Madame Sukey , " who kicked her milker and his pails headtwo to hold her
over-heels ; this refractory female required men every morning until they sold the of calf , bad when business she " became much on
sumed milk friendl , however y b terms the , , household " did and Madame made so the Sukey the best ladies bestow invested a , that it three could . pounds not So be con and
y , some odd shillings in a churn , — expenses " And thoug by making ht with our great own satisfaction butter . But of to the make now saving arose it ? we a difficulty should domestic effect which _servant in liad our
not previously occurred to us , —Who was Our s
Notices Of Books. 279
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 279
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/63/
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