Five Acres Too Much A truthful elucidation of the attractions of the country, and a careful consideration of the question of profit and loss as involved in amateur farming, with much valuable advice and instruction to those about purchasing large or small places in the rural districts

CHAPTER III.

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MORE LIVE-STOCK--A HORSE AND A PIG. WHICH IS THE NOBLER ANIMAL?

Beauties of the Pig.--Defects of the Horse.--The dearest Pig and the dearest Horse, each in their way.--A haunted House, and the Effect of Ghosts on Horses.--The Ghost Story precisely as it occurred.--Are Ghosts liable to Damages when they frighten Horses into fits of running away?--Equine Eccentricities.--Practical Playfulness.....61