viii CONTENTS 



CHAPTER VIII 



PIGS 



" As Merry as a Whitsun Morris Dance "-The Butleigh Revel 



"Stop Thief "The Story of a Watch .... 73 



CHAPTER IX 



A Clouded Horizon Farmers' Trials The Revolt of the 



Labourers The Maligned Landowner 85 



CHAPTER X 



The Royal Agricultural SocietyThe Shorthorn Boom John 

 Thornton The Bath and West Society A Kindly Sen&off 94 



CHAPTER XI 



My New Sphere of Work Next Door to a Tragedy Signs and 



Omens A Chamber of Horrors 105 



[CHAPTER XII 



A Progressive Society Dairy Education The Old Board of 

 Agriculture Travelling Missioners The Mischievous 

 Microbe 120 



CHAPTER XIII 



The Divining Rod John Mullins Divining Methods Conclu- 



sions arrived at Letter from a " Dowser " . . . .131 



CHAPTER XIV 

 A Devon Squire A Somerset Squire A Kentish Squire . . 143 



CHAPTER XV 



Cider Making at Home and Abroad A Voyage of Discovery 



The National Fruit and Cider Institute .... 162 



CHAPTER XVI 



A Show Yard Idyll The Sunday Service The Power of Human 



Sympathy The Y.M.C.A. in the Show Yard . . .168 



CHAPTER XVII 



" Gee-up, Dobbin "Topics of Yesterday and To-day Coke of 

 Norfolk Hands Across the Sea Benjamin Franklin An 

 Historic Letter 176 



