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TAGE 



I'hysical Endurance— The Triumph of Reason -The End of the 

 Battle— African Rinderpest — Dividing the Spoils— Death of the South- 

 down Ram — A Visit to the Agricultural Show —Rearing of Prize 

 Cattle — Fat Pigs — An Etruscan Winner — Queensland and Emigration 

 —Prize Chrysanthemums— The Poultry Show— If only !— A Prophetic 

 Passage— A Surgical Feat— Wild Ostriches— The Beet on Baker's - 

 Carrots and Carrot Lifting— The Last of the Green Maize— The Uses 

 of Road-grit— Sale of the Lambs— The Criminal Evidence Act- 

 Mustard and the Sheep— The Cunning of Dogs— The End of Dan — 

 A Result of Bad Stacking— A Self-planted Covert— Purchase of Steers 

 —The Ways of Moles -A Story ZJ'i 



DECEMBER 



An Agricultural Debate— Tlie Lack of Labourers— Mr. Bagenal's Report 



— Exodus from the Land a National Question — Cattle at Norwich 

 Market— Brutality of Drovers— The Cost of Carriage— Its Gravity - 

 Warmth of the Season — The Harleston Auction — A Controversy — 

 Prices at Harleston — The Dead of Winter —Ruin — The Patience of 

 the Afflicted - An 'Old Radical '—Nightfall— The Charm of Beding- 

 ham — The Lack of Bushes — A Critic Criticised — Raspberries in 

 December — The Swede Crop — A Plethora of Bailiffs— Large Ideas - 

 Begging Letters — Impostors — A Curious Case — Queen's Nurses -Fuel 

 j)oles — Heckingham Workhouse— Outdoor 'RtWei versus \hc House — 

 The Tale of Turk Taylor— A Master Rogue— A Fortified Workhouse 



— Parish Homes and Unions— An Aeriel Fire — A Discreet Defendant 

 —At the End of the Fell— The Woodcock's Note— Ware 'Cock — 

 Shooting as a Sport — The Shortest Day — The First Frost— An En- 

 thusiast — The Pheasant and the Cat — The last of Royal Duke — The 

 Labourer and the Land— Chilled Mutton — Balance Sheets — A Profit 

 — How to Succeed — Jeremiah considered by a Minor Prophet-The 

 Lowest on Record — Roses in December — Kessingland and the Ocean 

 —The Great March Gale — A Nelson Relic — Lady Hamilton and her 

 Critic— The Nelson Club— Pewits and Sunlight— The Smell of the Soil 

 ^Kohl-rabi and Swedes— A Desolate Scene — The Dignity and Doom 

 of Labour — The Last Sunrise — Tithe and the Parsons— The Con- 

 clusion of the Matter 4°? 



APPENDIX 

 I. The Rural Exodus 459 



II. Effect of Foreign Competition on the British Producer 470 



Index 473 



