MAKING HEADWAY 



part of a section of the community semper fidelis, 

 semper eadem with whom I was destined to have 

 much to do, and who, whether as owners or 

 cultivators of the soil, have left me equally their 

 debtor. 



Our hopes at Bicester the next year were 

 dashed owing to our having pitched upon the 

 most pitiless of wet days for the show, the rain 

 descending in an interminable torrent from morn 

 till night. The one consolation was that the rain 

 came just when it was needed to save the crops, 

 which had been suffering from previous drought. 

 This damper put us back a bit, though the atten- 

 dance of paying-visitors, numbering over 2000, 

 was much better than we could have expected 

 under the climatic conditions, whilst the exhibi- 

 tion of stock and implements was the largest the 

 Society had ever held. 



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