Leo Tolstoy’s

HOW MUCH LAND

DOES A MAN
NEED?
 PAHOM

“If only we had our own land, it would be

different.”
 Other people are buying it, and we must also
“Look at that. The land is being sold, and is shall
PAHOM’S
FOR SALE   impossible
buy 20 acres or so. Life is becoming 
get none of it”
without land of our own.
 I will sell my land and my
Why shouldhere..
homestead I suffer in this
I will start Much land is for sale there
I came from beyond the
narrow
Where
fresh hoearethere
over if you
I canand
from?
liveget
well any many
The land
are is
moving
so good…
there to
Volga.
elsewhere..
everything new. buy it.
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bought
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land.
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should be independent…
must try it
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large many
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have gone*
of acres
land
make your round, taking a price*
started,
price is 1000 the it.money
rubles isa lost.
day. would that be*
spade with you.
Wherever you think necessary,
make a mark. At every turning,
dig a hole and pile up the turf,
then afterward we will go round
with a
plow from hole to hole. You
may make as large a circuit as
you please, but before the sun
sets you must return to the
place you started
from. All the land you cover will
be yours."
"What a large tract I will mark off. I can easily do thirty-
five miles in a day. The days are long now, and within a
circuit
of thirty-five miles what a lot of land there will be! I will
sell the poorer land, or let it to peasants, but I'll pick
out the best and farm it.
I will buy two ox teams, and hire two more laborers.
About a hundred and fifty acres shall be plow land, and
I will pasture cattle on
the rest."
"It's time to wake them up,We ought to
be starting.”
 I will go on for another three miles, and
I then
have turn
gonetofar
theenough
left. This
in this
spotdirection,
is so fine,it
I must have a rest.
is that
timeittowould
turn. be
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a pityI to
amlose
in ait.regular
The
furthersweat,
one goes,
and the
verybetter
thirsty.
the land
seems.