The Making of a Country Home

The Making Of A Country Home. PREFACE THE story told in this book claims only to be the record of an ordinary mans experience and success in his efforts to make a home for himself in the country. It was believed by the writer that it would be a merit to keep the narrative as close as possible to actual facts, and not avail himself of any more romance than usually falls to the lot of an ordi- nary and thrifty man, who perhaps is often a good deal of a hero, though he is himself hardly aware of it