A MODEL VILLAGE. 283 



And the cottagers take the hint for rarely have we seen 

 such admirably laid-out gardens enclosures as those of this 

 model Wiltshire village." x 



The preceding illustration of what a peasant village 

 ought to be, is also a striking example of the power for 

 good which one individual landowner can wield. Had 

 such beneficent arrangements been carried out every- 

 where, it would have, there can be little doubt, effectually 

 arrested the disastrous depopulation of so many of our 

 rural districts. 



1 " Peasant Life in the West of England." 



