A Croft in the Hills (2013)
“In the lengthening evenings we would take a pleasure stroll round the fields after supper, for to stay indoors had become positively irksome. We acquired our first stock—a dozen laying hens, which we bought from a neighbour. We settled them in the stable, in a litter of peat-moss and straw, and began to keep a tally of eggs laid.
About this time it came to our ears that the croft immediately to our east was likely to come up for sale. The man who had bought it, a few years previously, was t...rying to run it in the time he could spare from another full-time job and it had become a burden to him. There were about fifteen acres of well-fenced arable ground, some more rough grazing, and the croft carried the right to graze sheep on the open hill on the other side of the road, a right shared by four other places in the neighbourhood. There was an excellent steading, with a brand-new corrugated iron roof, and a small wooden bungalow adjoining it, in place of the ruined dwelling house.MoreLess
About this time it came to our ears that the croft immediately to our east was likely to come up for sale. The man who had bought it, a few years previously, was t...rying to run it in the time he could spare from another full-time job and it had become a burden to him. There were about fifteen acres of well-fenced arable ground, some more rough grazing, and the croft carried the right to graze sheep on the open hill on the other side of the road, a right shared by four other places in the neighbourhood. There was an excellent steading, with a brand-new corrugated iron roof, and a small wooden bungalow adjoining it, in place of the ruined dwelling house.MoreLess
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