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been made by his wife from flour ground at 

 the miller's out of his own bag of wheat. 



It is difficult to imagine a more unkind 

 piece of earth to till than this wind-swept 

 hillside smothered with couch-grass ; and nine 

 miles away lies the vale of Evesham where 

 the air is as mellow as that of a Proven9al 

 village. 



With the insistent call of the land in this 

 Cotswold village a new desire has arisen 

 among the villagers to find expression in the 

 creation of things of beauty. Several of the 

 lads have been taught to work in metal, to 

 carve wood, and one or two of them, I hear, 

 have become skilled silversmiths. So alive 

 has the whole village become to an artistic 

 interpretation of life, that a perfect uproar 

 was raised when a shopkeeper proposed to 

 introduce a plate-glass window into the old- 

 fashioned, romantic village street ! 



Secondary education has been advanced 

 a stage with the formation of a technical 

 institute with a smithy, and one young crafts- 

 man cycles out to the surrounding villages 

 to teach raw country lads the elements of 

 drawing. 



Immediately there leaps to the mind the 



