Excerpt from The Daily Life of Our Farm AT last the blessed rain! Cleansing the foul sewers, giving drink to the grass roots, washing mildew from the swedes, reinspiring the croquet lawn, bringing home the wells and refilling the old village ladies' tarred barrel reservoirs, delighting the young mudlarks - to be led off in screaming terror an hour hence by exasperated maternity - but, above all, dispelling the dread malaria of typhus and cholera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.