FARMING AND FOXHUNTING 



not a bad investment at the time and they did earn 

 a good income during the subsequent years, but they 

 are not worth much to-day, although still at work, 

 and will do their share in the 1940 ploughing 

 programme I hope. 



One summer I managed to work in another very 

 pleasant trip, and this time to Norway. It came 

 about by a pure accident, or at least I in my ignor- 

 ance thought so. My sister, during her spare hours 

 whilst running the house, started in on pedigree 

 poultry. This I presume qualified her to take a 

 pupil who happened to be a young lady. This lady 

 took her holidays about midsummer, her home was 

 in Hull and her father a captain on a boat doing 

 regular service to Norway, and when she reached 

 home she persuaded the Captain to invite me to 

 join his ship for a trip to Norway. A most enjoyable 

 holiday it proved to be, but I am afraid I never paid 

 the bill quite in the way that I was intended to. 



My most successful year was 1907, when I 

 was in occupation of these upland farms. Getting 

 married should always be a very important step to 

 take in any man's life, and to me it was a master 

 step from every point of view. I cannot say more, 

 and I shall leave it at that, and be happy in doing so. 

 London and the Channel Islands was the first 

 arrangement for the honeymoon holiday. However, 

 one day when basking in the sunshine at Jersey, we 

 had time to take a look at the daily papers and 

 discovered the price of wheat was advancing to an 

 unusual degree. We therefore decided to extend 

 the holiday and spend a few days in Paris. Paris 



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