24 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



on a large hand-loom. We can even imagine 

 that some day, at Winterslow, the shepherds 

 will be clothed in the wool sheared from the 

 backs of the flocks that they own as well as tend. 



As I found elsewhere, it is the village 

 schoolmaster here who gives to the village 

 community that mental stimulus which wins 

 for it a self-reliance, which we so seldom find 

 in those village communities living under the 

 shadow of a great house with its attendant 

 parasitic labour. Many of these craftsmen of 

 the land are teetotallers, and at Winterslow, it 

 seemed to me, the publicans were hard put to 

 it for their living. 



So happy has been this experiment of 

 repeopling an empty hillside where a farm 

 was going derelict, that a Conservative land- 

 owner, Mr. Clough, has, with admirable enter- 

 prise, bought an estate of 1000 acres in this 

 neighbourhood, and already the green valley 

 beyond West Winterslow is dotted with the 

 red-brick houses of small holders. 



These holdings are chiefly for men who 

 want from eighty to ninety acres of land. 

 Unlike the holdings of the Land Court, they 

 are rented, the rent being £l an acre, plus 

 the equivalent to 5 per cent sunk on the 



