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removed from local markets, they can be made 

 to pay anywhere." 



The farm is from three to four miles 

 from a railway station, and seven or eight 

 miles from Dorking, Reigate, or Horsham. 

 Furthermore, the farm is surrounded by 

 preserves, and fruit cultivation is carried on at 

 great expense, for every row of strawberries 

 and every individual currant-bush has to be 

 closely netted. Then the method of paying 

 for the land b^ twenty half-yearly instalments 

 proved to be too heavy a burden for those 

 who w^ere not small capitalists. Added to 

 this burden were the instalments payable for 

 building. 



Professor Long, the originator of this scheme, 

 said that the country labourer could have a 

 yard of land for the price of a glass of beer ; 

 but the country labourer evidently thought he 

 would have to sacrifice too many glasses before 

 he could acquire the smallest holding of three 

 acres. Hodge made no appearance on the 

 estate as a purchaser ; instead, he grinned with 

 scepticism as he watched small urban shop- 

 keepers, mining, mechanical, and even marine 

 engineers, non - commissioned officers with a 

 pension, a chemist, an ex-civil servant, and 



