# Ten Acres Enough A practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family

Author: Morris, Edmund, 1804-1874

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48753

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## Summary

My life, up to the age of forty, had been spent in my native city of Philadelphia. Like thousands of others before me, I began the world without a dollar, and with a very few friends in a condition to assist me. Having saved a few hundred dollars by dint of close application to business, and avoiding taverns, oyster-houses, theatres, and fashionable tailors, I married and went into business the same year. These two contemporaneous drafts upon my little capital proving heavier than I expected, they soon used it up, leaving me thereafter greatly straitened for means. It is true my business kept me, but as it was constantly expanding, and was of such a nature that a large proportion of my an...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-acres-enough-a-practical-experience-showing-how-a-very-smal-306f7c8f/chapters/5/index.md)