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The Country GentlcmafU s Magazine 



in form as to be a beauty rather than a 

 blemish in the landscape. 



Harvest work could be no more accom- 

 plished by soldiers under present conditions, 

 and at the price " H. G. S." assumes they 

 would get, than " Hodge " could rush from 

 the plough into the battle-field, a man skilled 

 in all the art of war. Their presence among 

 the beans and the barley would be as little 

 pleasing and profitable to farmers, as agricul- 

 tural labourers wilh scythes over their 



shoulders would be to the commanding 

 officer when they were called into action. 



We are afraid, therefore, that if we have to 

 depend for the safe ingathering of the 

 harvest upon the classes whom the Times' 

 correspondent names, we shall be left in a 

 sorry plight indeed, even were the War 

 Office and the Admiralty to give their sanc- 

 tion (which is unlikely), to a furlough, en masse, 

 for such a length of time and for such a pur- 

 pose. 



