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From the depths of the forest mysterious voices met our ears: the woodcock's hoarse call, the roebuck's deep bellow, the wild boar's grunt, the squirrel's chatter, and the shrill cries which announce the presence of the wild peacock. What a difference between this lordly forest and my small twenty-acre park!
He afterwards sold this twenty-acre piece to Sam fer sixty dollars, an' thought he done mighty well. When I first come to the Wea, Lafayette didn't have more'n half a dozen cabins. I went through her once on my way up to the tradin' house at Longlois, couple a mile above. You wouldn't believe a town could grow as fast as Lafayette has in the last couple o' years.
Large, placid mulleins, as summer advances, velvety in texture, of a light greenish-drab color, growing everywhere in the fields at first earth's big rosettes in their broad-leav'd low cluster-plants, eight, ten, twenty leaves to a plant plentiful on the fallow twenty-acre lot, at the end of the lane, and especially by the ridge-sides of the fences then close to the ground, but soon springing up leaves as broad as my hand, and the lower ones twice as long so fresh and dewy in the morning stalks now four or five, even seven or eight feet high.
Other trips they made, sometimes accompanied by Dick, to his great dredgers working in the Sacramento basin, or his dam-building on the Little Coyote and Los Cuatos creeks, or to his five-thousand-acre colony of twenty-acre farmers, where he was trying to enable two hundred and fifty heads of families, along with their families, to make good on the soil.
Sponge then slips through, closely followed by Hangallows and a jockey in yellow, with a tail of three after them. They then put on all the steam they can raise over the twenty-acre pasture that follows. The white! the red! the yaller! The red! the white! the yaller! and anybody's race! A sheet would cover them! crack! whack! crack! how they flog! Hercules springs at the sound.
It was agreed to divide the eleven hundred and sixty-five acres into fifty twenty-acre tracts, and fifty village lots, the village to stand in the centre of the purchase. Fourteen lots were also set aside for school-houses and other public buildings. With the first contribution the land was bought. The fifty associates had to pay about fifty dollars each for this purpose.
Little machinery is used, and much of the work is done after primitive fashions; but the land is productive, and it is worked to the top of its bent. The peasant-farmer soils his cows, his sheep, his swine, in a way that is economical of space and food, if not of labor, and manages to make a living and to pay rent for his twenty-acre strip of land.
To Nelson she announced, "Pete has a showing of oil!" The vice-president of the bank murmured something which was lost in Gray's quick inquiry: "Partner? Are you a partner of Colonel Nelson's?" "After a fashion. We own a twenty-acre lease west of 'Burk' that is, I have a quarter interest and Henry is putting down a well. I drove out there, and his driller told me it is looking good."
"I know there are twenty in the timothy meadow," said Donald, "because father always calls it the twenty-acre lot." "Write it down on the map, Frank," said Uncle Robert. "How much in the clover field?" "It seems about half as large as the timothy meadow," said Frank. "That's right," said Mr. Leonard; "it is." "There are twenty acres in the wood lot, aren't there, father?" asked Frank.
In cold weather the water is warmed to about 65° F. The cows are let out in a twenty-acre field for exercise every day, except in case of severe storms.
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