100 AAVAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



As a typical representative of the not un- 

 sympathetic type there is my friend X. whom 

 I visited when I was in Norfolk pursuing my 

 investigations. He is the tenant of three 

 farms, each of about 300 or 400 acres. He 

 takes a keen interest in rural housing ; he sits 

 on the county council, calls himself a Pro- 

 gressive, and in Imperial politics is a staunch 

 Conservative. A man in middle life, he has 

 farmed since he was a boy, working on his 

 father's farm, which before that was farmed 

 by his grandfather. His brothers and uncles 

 are all farmers. He is therefore wholly of 

 the farming stock. Farming is to him a 

 thorough business undertaking and not a 

 plaything. Sport with him is quite a secondary 

 consideration. When I saw him some years 

 ago he drove a smart dogcart into Norwich 

 when making his weekly journey to the bank. 

 Now he drives a motor car. 



"Come," he said to me at his hospitable 

 farmhouse, "let me drive you round to my 

 other farms, and we will have a talk about 

 small holdings. I haven't very much time to 

 spare, for I shall have to be over at the sea- 

 coast this afternoon to look at some dilapidated 

 cottages on behalf of the Council." 



