Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it

t they should become the fortunate share-holders in a doe and six young ones. These were bought early in September, and, as long as the weather would allow, t

d not derive any benefit from his obedience; two or three times weekly we heard of deaths taking place

h a large basket, drew from it a most beautiful black-and-white doe, and held it up before our

ts you ought to have bought. My brother keeps rabbits,

animal, we became the possessors of these superior creatures, with the understanding that no one was to have anything to do with t

hat was our disappointment, then, when a week after we heard of the death of one of them! This was soon followed by another, and another, till the whole seven li

nsumed nearly as many oats as the pony. At last Tom thought of the hutch, or "locker," as he called it. "It must," sai

rom that time we abandoned rabbit-keeping, and resolved not, for the future, to keep any live stock which we could not look after ourselves. We did not attempt to do so in this case, bec

matter in a pecuniary point of view, as it was very doubtful if the children's pets would ever have died for the benefit of the dinner-table, and I only insert this chapter for the purpose of proving what I stated, viz.

or which all the food has to be purchased. Had we continued to keep our fowls in the yard, I am convinced they would have brought us little or no profit; but the grass, worms, and other things they found for them

erous than the rabbits, and will b