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favor your hiring some neighborhood youth to do the job. Certainly he will charge too much; certainly he will not do as good a job as you want. But not only will it relieve you completely of the physical burden involved; it will relieve you of the business of dragging around,storing, cleaning, oiling, and arranging for the repair of an expensive piece of machinery. This summer, we will take care of it with the hand mower. Until then, hire somebody. You won't have to do anything drastic until next fall. 

My experience with the mowers is roughly this: the big, standard gasoline mowers (with blades like an ordinary one, but self-propelled) are fine for big expanses of grass but are hard to guide around a lawn full of trees & bushes. The little rotary ones are easy to handle and much lighter, but they are liable to remove the operator's feet.
 
P.S. My suggestion, if you can't find a neighborhood youth, advertize in your local area newspaper. Jack adds that the gasoline mowers don't go backwards, & it is hard work to turn them around.