124 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



"As the village is growing, and as I am 

 becoming richer, I shall therefore have to 

 charge you more rent." 



Market facilities are not easy at Verwood. 

 True, there is a railway near, but it is only 

 a connecting link between Salisbury and 

 Wimborne, and no one living within the 

 stretch of country lying between those two 

 places takes it at all seriously. It is j ust a thread 

 on which, spider-like, an engine leisurely spins 

 its way, dragging in its train a freight of weary 

 human beings to the web of town life. 



The cattle market at Wimborne may be 

 useful to stock-keepers, to which, of course, 

 cattle can travel on their own legs, but the 

 best market town for garden produce to the 

 growers at Verwood is Bournemouth, fourteen 

 miles away, and that is reached by road. Hence 

 the railway is of little avail to the people here ; 

 but as forest ponies are cheap, nearly every 

 small holder keeps a pony and cart and 

 markets his own produce in Bournemouth, 

 which, as a growing seaside town, is an invalu- 

 able market centre for the small holders in and 

 about the Forest. 



Verwood is one of those places where 

 greater stability in colonisation is assured by 



