CHAPTER X. 



JOHN bull's other ISLAND. 



There is no need for the Englishman in 

 search for a rural plan of campaign to be 

 continually running over to Denmark. I do 

 not think that it is insular pride that makes 

 me begin to resent the tyranny of the Dane 

 in matters agricultural in our own country, 

 but the knowledge that the Danish farmer, 

 backed up by a good deal of capital, has put 

 his hand to the plough in Sussex, in Lincoln- 

 shire, in Oxfordshire, only to look regretfully 

 back to the country he understood better. 



The Dane, in fact, has been rather over- 

 done. He has been so often hurled at our 

 heads as the model ploughboy to imitate, that 

 we begin rather to dislike and even to suspect 

 him. Indeed, a Danish friend has informed 

 me that the Danish farmer has been seriously 



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