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Title: Three Acres and Liberty

Author: Bolton Hall

Posting Date: August 11, 2009 [EBook #4509]
Release Date: October, 2003
First Posted: January 27, 2002

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THREE ACRES

AND

LIBERTY

BY

BOLTON HALL

AUTHOR OF

"THINGS AS THEY ARE," "THRIFT," ETC.

REVISED EDITION

_"A sower went out to sow and he sowed that which was in his
heart--for what can a man sow else!"_ From "THE GAME OF LIFE."

Or, as the Vulgate has it,--

_"Exitt qui seminat seminare semen suum."_

NEW YORK

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1918

All rights reserved._

Copyright 1907 and 1918

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1907.

Reprinted April, July, 1907; March, 1908; June,

September, 1910; April, 1912; April 1914.

New edition, revised February, 1918.

FOREWORD

We are not tied to a desk or to a bench; we stay there only because
we think we are tied.

In Montana I had a horse, which was hobbled every night to keep him
from wandering; that is, straps joined by a short chain were put
around his forefeet, so that he could only hop. The hobbles were
taken off in the morning, but he would still hop until he saw his
mate trotting off.

This book is intended to show how any one can trot off if he will.

It is not a textbook; there are plenty of good textbooks, which are
referred to herein. Intensive cultivation cannot be comprised in any
one book.

It shows what is needed for a city man or woman to support a family
on the proceeds of a little bit of land; it shows how in truth, as
the old Book prophesied, the earth brings forth abundantly after its
kind to satisfy the desire of every living thing. It is not
necessary to bury oneself in the country, nor, with the new
facilities of transportation, need we, unless we wish to, pay the
extravagant rents and enormous cost of living in the city. A little
bit of