They Had Stores...We Had Chores: A Town-Country Lexicon

This book is dedicated to anyone who knew what the phrase Shut your barn door, or the cows will get out. really meant. Comparing and contrasting town and country life will even get a Norwegian bachelor farmer chuckling. They had welcome mats by their doors, we had manure scrappers. They had goldfish in a bowl, we had suckers in the stock tank.