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more fiery hair, and the light skin to match. What I 

 have heard was to this effect : 



" Perhaps it will be all right in the end we hope it 

 will : he says he will marry her and give her a home. 

 But you never know where you are with a man of that 

 colour I'll believe it when I see it." 



" Yes, he seems all right, and speaks well, and pro- 

 mises to pay me the money. But look at the colour of 

 his eyes ! No, I can't trust him." 



" He's a very nice person, I have no doubt, but his 

 eyes and hair are enough for me," &c., &c. 



Even this may be merely the effect of that enmity 

 or suspicion with which the stranger, or " foreigner," as 

 he is called, is often regarded in rural districts. The 

 person from another county, or from a distance, un- 

 related to any one in the community, is always a 

 foreigner, and the foreign taint may descend to the 

 children: may it not be that in Hampshire any one 

 with bright colour in eyes, hair, and skin is also by 

 association regarded as a foreigner? 



It remains to speak of the last of the four distinct 

 types, the least common and most interesting of all 

 the small, narrow-headed man with very black hair, 

 black eyes, and brown skin. 



We are deeply indebted to the anthropologists who 

 have, so to speak, torn up the books of History, and are 

 re-telling the story of Man on earth : we admire them 

 for their patient industry, and because they have gone 

 bravely on with their self-appointed task, one peculiarly 



