We Have Been In Such Robust Health
The Whole Of Our Three Months, Hardly A Headache Or Finger-Ache.
Our
Maid-of-all-work life has suited us, and we have acquired such
an immense deal of practical knowledge that
For those reasons
alone, we might be gratified and pleased we came. Since then we
have been staying with Mike in Minnesota, where we were either
riding or driving (anything to do with horses) all day long.
Driving four miles, jumping the horses over a pole, taking them
down to water, having a mule race (which was truly amusing as the
course was just in front of the house and several bolted home),
and driving, a gang plough, were a few of the "diversions" found
for us. Our host was most kind and anxious to make us comfortable;
he worked heaven and earth to get his house ready, the contractors
having taken so much more time than they said; anyhow, he turned
the carpenters out of the house the day previous to our arrival,
carried in the furniture, nailed up mosquito blinds, and did many
things himself, so that everything should be in spick and span
order.
As these men, Mike having two partners, are farming thirteen
thousand acres, they are on a much larger scale as regards
buildings, numbers of horses, etc., to anything we have seen
before. Their living-houses are about double the size of C - -
Farm; they have also huge stables, which A - - fancies will be cold
in winter, but have a most imposing appearance, as have also their
implement house, sheds, etc.
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