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your secretary and foreman present, but may I be 

 allowed to come into the Holy of Holies ? This, 

 I presume, is what one must call the nerve-centre 

 of this departmental business." Looking round the 

 office he followed on, " Ah, here we have the 

 telephone exchange, one line to the nurseries, one 

 to the foreman, yes and another to the house, I 

 see. What a lazy man you must be, Whatley. 

 Well, good-bye, I must not detain you. I shall 

 see you at Lotmead Gate to-morrow morning, I 

 hope. What time do the hounds meet ? By the 

 by, can you send a horse along for the huntsman 

 to ride ? I can't do it, I have one gone lame." 



But to be serious, it is very helpful to be assured 

 at an early hour in the morning that the work is 

 going somewhat to plan, and whilst my friend was 

 very amusing over the system of telephones, one 

 does find a great relief in working things this way. 

 My friend was not able to see the whole bag of 

 tricks, for he little knew that the foreman too is 

 linked up with the main lines and therefore able 

 to carry on when I am out, and often I must admit 

 when I am in. One in my sitting-room and one 

 in the bedroom completes the list. You see, 

 laziness is no good unless it is on a grand scale. 



Talking of this linking up business it is really 

 a very important one and if worked successfully 

 can be the means of a tremendous saving in time 

 and expense. For instance we are milking some 

 200 cows at three different dairies and in the old 

 days, three horses and milk-carts were kept in use 

 carting milk to the station, and incidentally were 



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