Excerpt from The Fat of the Land: The Story of an American Farm I would never have given up my profession voluntarily; but when it gave me up, I had to accept the dismissal, surrender my ambitions, and fall back upon my primary instinct for di version and happiness. The dismissal came with out warning, like the fall of a tree when no wind shakes the forest, but it was imperative and per emptory. The doctors (and they were among the best in the land) said, NO more of this kind of work for years, and I had to accept their verdict, though I knew that for years meant forever. 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.