Humor Cobb, Irvin S.: The Abandoned Farmers. v1. 14 Aug 2018

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After years of dreaming of escape from the crowded clamor of New York City, not to the compromise of a suburban home, but to the country, the Cobb family buys an abandoned farm. Advised that “you won’t have to do much,” they find they must build a house; construct a road; dig a well; buy furnishings, livestock, trees and shrubs; deal with carpenters, plumbers, handy-men — why, there’s nothing to it!

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Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor, and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky who relocated to New York in 1904 for the remainder of his life, writing for the New York World, The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and other newspapers and magazines. Cobb wrote more than 300 short stories and 60 books (most of these being collections of his stories and articles). Some of his works were adapted for film. He was one of America’s most popular humorists during the first third of the twentieth century.

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The contents of this book first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in multiple installments in 1913, 1917, 1919. The Abandoned Farmers was published in 1920. Text is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is “Life + 70” or less, and in the USA.

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