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has a blighting effect upon certain districts — 

 the land being in the hands of one land- 

 owner. It is the district of many small 

 owners — a district of great sobriety, of thrift, 

 of stubbornly - held and freely - expressed 

 opinions. The principal inn is a temperance 

 one, the result of Quaker influence, which 

 strongly predominates here. And so honest 

 are the people, that when the landlord of the 

 inn departed for Sunday evening service with 

 his family he told me that I need not trouble 

 to lock the street door if I went out, for " all 

 the Street folk were honest." 



The starting of the " Street and District 

 Poultry-Rearing and Egg-Collecting Society " 

 came about through the inefficiency of the 

 higgler. Ten years ago the higgler did as he 

 liked with the poultry - keeper ; now he is 

 unable to get a living in Street. Unfortunately 

 for him, at that time he did as he liked with 

 Mr. William Reynolds, who had just bought 

 forty laying pullets. The higgler called 

 regularly every week in the winter, but when 

 January was on the wane, and eggs became 

 plentiful and cheaper, the higgler called no 

 more. 



Then it was that Mr. Reynolds began to 



