Excerpt from The Farmer's and Emigrant's Hand BookI was literally his bondman. I felt that I might be taken' sick or die at any time, and leave my family in distress. I have, therefore, sold out my betterments, and am now ready to begin again.Here was a man, who had worked hard and eaten the bread of carefulness, but whose ill success was occasioned solely by having taken up too large a farm at the outset.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.