Ann Smith 
Farnham, with other friends too—and off they 
went by train to London. In the same com- 
partment with them, and bound on the same 
errand, travelled a party of men from the Waverley 
Abbey estate near Farnham. At Ash these men 
began upon their food. ‘They had brought with 
them a shoulder of mutton, and they cut their 
slices from it in the train. Did they pick the bone 
clean? At the Exhibition itself bones and refuse 
from other picnics lay about under the Stalls. 
The Farnborough party travelled home in a cattle- 
truck—glad to secure even that, so crowded was 
the traffic. 
Ann had always loved “ treats,’’ and no doubt 
the excitement of this excursion was a treat for 
her. Yet I surmise her daily life was happier 
if quieter during the few years of her life at 
home again, once the apprenticeship was done. 
Her own disposition must have assured that for 
her. As she was always quick to discern in 
ordinary people the underlying goodness, so in 
them thé goodness started out to welcome her; 
and it was not wonderful if they liked her much. 
She by no means fancied that her own temper 
had anything to do with it. The people were 
amiable, or ‘‘ nice,” as she said. She found a 
little local work to do, and it’s remarkable with 
what a number of “nice”? acquaintances it 
brought her into contact. 
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