It's a self-reliant sort of life. Our bees provided us with honey, and we cut enough wood to just about ma ke it through the heating season. A. Our hen kept us in eggs, with several dozen left over to sell each week. B. I managed to spend 50 to 60 hours a week at the typewriter or doing reporting for the freelance articles. C. We watched for hawks in the sky and deer in the cornfields. D. I am not in E.B. White's class as a writer, but I'm ge tting by .