RURAL COUNCILLORS. 109 



Here one can watch wherries with their 

 pleasant brown sails coming down from North 

 Walsham sweeping round the copse, threading 

 their way along the sluggish Ant and tacking 

 across the open Broad, making their inland 

 voyage to Great Yarmouth eighteen miles 

 away. Church towers, islanded in isolation 

 amid ploughed fields under wide skies, could 

 be counted by the score. These were many, 

 but cottages were few. Every one of the 

 half-dozen men I spoke to were still lodgers, 

 some of them grass-widowers. Working here 

 by day, and sleeping by night in some crowded 

 old cottage perhaps a mile or two away, they 

 patiently await the building of those concrete 

 cottages that are to be erected on this mere- 

 stead of a hundred acres, now known as 

 *'Wayford Tenants, limited," Smallburgh, 

 by Norwich. 



Every one of these men had known some- 

 thing of co-operation before they came to 

 Wayford. They possessed what is so often 

 lacking in small - holding communities — a 

 guiding principle to knit them together. 

 They are all co-partners in the same venture, 

 and three of them sit on the committee with 

 Mr. W. L. Charleton, the chairman, to whose 



