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U1(1) I’m getting by.(2) We found contentment in the country.(3) Our bees provide us with honey, and we cut enough wood to just aboutmake it through the heating season.(4) Sandy, meanwhile, pursues her own demanding schedule.(5) Besides the usual household routine, she oversees the garden and beehives.(6) There is, as the old saying goes, no rest for the wicked on a place like this —and not much for the virtuous either.(7) We kept warm inside burning our own wood, eating our own apples andloving every minute of it.(8) The growing season began, swamping us under wave after wave of produce.(9) On balance things have gone much better than we had any right to expect.(10) Aside from the policy on our two cars, we have no other insurance.(11) We’ve been able to make up the difference in income by cutting backwithout appreciably lowering our standard of living.(12) We patronize local restaurants instead of more expensive places in the city.(13) Extravagant Christmases are a memory.(14) Living in the countryside takes a couple of special qualities. One is atolerance for solitude.(15) The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist thetemptation to buy expensive laborsaving devices.(16) How much longer we’ll have enough energy to stay on here is anybody’sguess.U2Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress.A racial sellout unwilling to stand up for himself?Josiah Henson was a man of principle.I had travelled here to Henson’s last home to learn more about a man who was, in many ways, an African-American Moses.I was intent on telling their stories.John Parker tensed when he heard the soft knock.Eventually he saved enough money working at this trade on the side to buy his freedom.Parker found ten fugitives frozen with fear.(9) They had almost reached shore when a watchman spotted them andraced off to spread the news.(10) Parker watched helplessly as the pursuers closed in around the men hewas forced to leave behind.(11) While black conductors were often