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I do not say that she has improved in 

 character, but she has begun to breathe a 

 different atmosphere, an atmosphere embarrass- 

 ing to the lungs of the yokel. So she finds 

 her mate in the town and there fulfils her 

 destiny. 



There are other reasons why the mating 

 in the country is checked. There is in all 

 probability no decent cottage for the young 

 people to inhabit. But this takes me to 

 another subject of which more later. 



For the present we want to see how it is 

 possible for the country girl to find work in 

 her own village other than domestic service, 

 or work in the fields. 



I believe that it is not altogether snobbish- 

 ness which keeps the cottage girl in many 

 parts of England from working on the land. 

 Socially, the girl who has married a small 

 holder holds her head higher than does the 

 wife of an agricultural labourer, but she does 

 not hesitate to bend her back to help her 

 husband when help is badly needed on her 

 own holding. 



This is quite a different thing to being 

 employed by a farmer or a market gardener 

 where she has to work in a gang, and very 



