WORKSHOP PLUS LAND. 229 



The craftsmen whose physical outlook was 

 no longer trammelled by the prison walls of 

 streets and factories, whose perception of 

 beauty was no longer dulled by the ugliness 

 and sordidness of the towns in which they 

 worked, found that new visions of beauty 

 came to them as they followed the plough, 

 traversing the hillside with eyes clarified by 

 the clear air and lungs sweetened by the 

 fragrant sweat of tlie earth. 



Yet the question forces itself upon us : 

 how could craftsmen who were employed 

 in performing fine and dehcate work, such 

 as chasing silver, enamelling, designing and 

 carving in wood and stone, become tillers 

 of the soil and not feel the effect in the 

 workshops after a hard day's toil on the 

 land ? 



I have interviewed several of these crafts- 

 men, and whilst one or two of them have 

 confessed that their hands would shake at 

 first after working on the land, they said 

 that after getting themselves into training 

 in the use of the spade, agricultural labour 

 ceases to affect the delicacy of their touch in 

 the workshop or the studio ; and as designers 

 the contact with the earth gave to their work 



