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Title: City homes on country lanes; philosophy and practice of the home-in-a-garden
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Smythe, William E. (William Ellsworth), 1861-1922
Subjects: Garden cities -- United States Country life Gardening
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eir milk andmeat. And in that and much other ancient literaturethey are always referred to in terms of respect. In this country it has happened that only the commonNanny has been much in evidence. She has usuallybeen the makeshift of the poor, with no influentialfriends to proclaim her virtues, though in recent yearsit has been somewhat different. The public has begunto discover that there arc goats and goats, includingsuch aristocratic individuals as the Swiss Toggenburg,the Saanen, and the Anglo-Nubian, with its distin-guished Roman nose. Enthusiastic breeders and pro-moters have sprung up, with their literature, theirperiodicals and their societies, in consequence of whichthe worthy milch goat is forging rapidly ahead in re-spectability. In California, at least, the goat has foundits friends among the most refined and cultivated mem-bers of society. The most prominent among these isa young lady belonging to a well-known family, whoresigned her position as teacher of Greek and arch-
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