314 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



ployed. The only work permitted to him is a 

 little light farm management. The old squire 

 stayed at home and knew them all by their 

 names, and where they lived, but the nouveaux 

 riches are for ever running up to town in their 

 motor cars on business, just like any other 

 tradesman, and these form no more a part of 

 the daily life of the country poor than the 

 factory owner does in the life of his mill- 

 hands. 



'* Fraternity " in France has no doubt 

 revolutionised French manners for the better, 

 but "Fraternity" in rural England is an 

 almost unknown word, and the manners of 

 our fellow-countrymen attest the lack of its 

 divine quality. 



