JOHN HOLGATE - Make a Cow Laugh. A First Year in Farming

Great Britain, Readers Union, 1978. 1st Readers Union Edit, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardcover Hardcover. Make a Cow Laugh. Slight browning to edges of pages through age. Foxing to end inside covers. Slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. The Holgate family left surburbia for a small farm near the Welsh border. They had limited financial means and no farming experience whatsoever, so they tool along a Do-It-Yourself text bok. It all proved very different from their day-dreaming; their adventures with creatures on hoof and wing five the reader splendid entertainment and a wealth of information. Luckily they made friends with the locals who regarded their initial efforts with some astonishment and considerable amusement, recognized them as innocents abroad, and kept them, as far as possible, somewhere near the right lines. Fortunately, even if the Holgates were frequently at a loss, the animals usually knew what needed to be done. 234 pp.