CHAPTEE XI 



The Hampshire people Racial differences in neighbouring counties 

 A neglected subject Inhabitants of towns Gentry and 

 peasantry Four distinct types The common blonde type 

 Lean women Deleterious effects of tea-drinking A shepherd's 

 testimony A mixed race The Anglo-Saxon Case of reversion 

 of type Un-Saxon character of the British Dark-eyed Hamp- 

 shire people Racial feeling with regard to eye-colours The 

 Iberian type Its persistence Character of the small dark 

 man Dark and blonde children A dark village child. 



THE history of the horn-blower and his old wife, and 

 their still living aged children, serves to remind me that 

 this book, which contains so much about all sorts of 

 creatures and forms of life, from spiders and flies to 

 birds and beasts, and from red alga on gravestones to 

 oaks and yews, has so far had almost nothing to say 

 about our own species of that variety which inhabits 

 Hampshire. 



If the critical reader asks what is here meant by 

 " variety," what should I answer him ? On going 

 directly from any other district in southern England to 

 the central parts of Hampshire one is sensible of a 

 difference in the people. One is still in southern Eng- 

 land, and the peasantry, like the atmosphere, climate, 

 soil, the quiet but verdurous and varied scenery, are 

 more or less like those in other neighbouring counties 



241 Q 



