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fortunate enough to be more or less indifferent 

 to markets and the little vagaries of salesmen, 

 for he has now worked up a large retail 

 business (from grower to customer), sending 

 away his produce in boxes containing 6 lb. 

 of fruit and upwards. 



He has farmed in Canada, but prefers to 

 colonise England, which is sadly in want of 

 men with grit. He is the exception to the 

 middle-class man who goes "back to the land." 

 The young man who comes from a com- 

 fortable home and is able to secure a little 

 capital is to be seen in Evesham for a season 

 or two. As his white face becomes bronzed 

 by the sun, and his white buckskin knicker- 

 bockers a little tarnished from riding on the 

 manure cart, he graduates, in due course, from 

 the state of pupilage, and pays the ingoings in 

 order to take possession of some gardener's 

 holding. Perhaps he pays too much for the 

 ingoings ; or perhaps on hot summer days 

 the only breath of air is to be obtained on the 

 golf course, or the lure of the seductive river 

 fringed with willows is too much for him. So 

 while the young master plays with the sculls, 

 or the driving iron, the labourer sleeps in the 

 asparagus alley. At any rate, in a year or 



