FOREWORD 



managed to fit in with his farming a full share of 

 public work and many days with the hounds. 

 His reminiscences need no embroidery from a 

 fellow Wiltshire farmer. I wish every farmer could 

 tell such a cheerful story. 



The author is outspoken. One welcomes the 

 book for two reasons. First, it provides an account 

 of farming in peace and wartime and as such will 

 render a service to the Country. Secondly, Charles 

 Whatley, himself a Yeoman, gives the proceeds of 

 this book to farming's only wartime appeal — the 

 Red Cross Agriculture Fund. In his early days 

 Charles Whatley showed his patriotism as a soldier : 

 now having reached three-score and seven he shows 

 his patriotism by devoting any profits to the Fund. 



ANTHONY HURD. 

 June, 1940. 



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