252 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



winning health, if not large earnings, on a bee- 

 farm in Sussex ? 



If you stand on the top of Leith Hill, your 

 eye will be arrested, as it roams the Weald, by a 

 number of red and white cottages some six miles 

 to the south-east. This is the Cudworth estate 

 of small holdings, which is by some regarded 

 a failure as a small-holding settlement. Yet 

 in spite of failure from the purely agricul- 

 tural standpoint, here we get an estate of some 

 400 acres on the borders of Surrey and Sussex 

 on which some forty or fifty families have 

 erected houses and are working daily in the 

 open air. 



It is interesting to note that every one of 

 these families has come out of a town. A 

 few of these back-to-the-land folk, it is true, 

 need not work for their livelihood ; but whether 

 or not they are spurred by necessity, every one 

 keeps some live-stock and does some garden- 

 ing, and the children, instead of being brought 

 up in the Old Kent Road, Brixton, or Stoke 

 Newington, are taught to plant a tree, to handle 

 a hay-rake, or to milk a cow. They will live 

 intimately with the wind, the clouds, and 

 Mother Earth. 



A few of these settlers are attempting, and 



