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MDCCCXXXIV.
LONDON.
Printed by William Clowes,
Duke-street, Lambeth.
CONTENTS.
| LIFE IN THE WILDS. | ||
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| 1. | What have they left us? | [1] |
| 2. | What is Wealth? | [22] |
| 3. | Earn your Bread before you eat it | [30] |
| 4. | Hand-Work and Head-Work | [43] |
| 5. | Heart-Work | [55] |
| 6. | Many Hands make quick Work | [70] |
| 7. | Getting up in the World | [83] |
| 8. | A bright Sunset | [99] |
| 9. | Signs of the Times | [109] |
| THE HILL AND THE VALLEY. | ||
| 1. | Every Man his Whim | [1] |
| 2. | Much may come of Little | [17] |
| 3. | The harm of a Whim | [30] |
| 4. | Prosperity | [49] |
| 5. | How to use Prosperity | [70] |
| 6. | Disasters | [84] |
| 7. | Discontents | [103] |
| 8. | Uproar | [117] |
| 9. | All quiet again | [133] |
| BROOKE AND BROOKE FARM. | ||
| 1. | Brooke and its Politicians | [1] |
| 2. | George Gray’s Way of Living | [16] |
| 3. | George Gray in the Way to Prosper | [28] |
| 4. | A Conversation under the Limes | [40] |
| 5. | Past, Present, and to Come | [56] |
| 6. | Sergeant Rayne’s Story | [72] |
| 7. | Great Changes at Brooke | [83] |
| 8. | Small Farming | [92] |
| 9. | Great Joy at Brooke | [106] |
| 10. | What Joe Harper saw Abroad | [114] |
| 11. | What must come at last | [127] |
| 12. | Prosperity to Brooke! | [132] |
PREFACE.
In an enlightened nation like our own, there are followers of every science which has been marked out for human pursuit. There is no study which has met with entire neglect from all classes of our countrymen. There are men of all ranks and every shade of opinion, who study the laws of Divine Providence and human duty. There are many more who inquire how the universe was formed and under what rules its movements proceed. Others look back to the records of society and study the history of their race. Others examine and compare the languages of many nations. Others study the principles on which civil laws are founded, and try to discover what there has been of good as well as of evil in the governments under which men have lived from the time of the patriarchs till now. Others—but they are very few—inquire into the principles which regulate the production and distribution of the necessaries and comforts of life in society.