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great cause for rejoicing in his prudent resolve never 

 to entrust himself to the deep blue sea, except at- 

 tended by a bathing machine and a couple of old 

 women. It has been said or sung that_, 



" Men to distant regions roam, 

 To bring politer manners Lome." 



"We don't remember exactly whether any such im- 

 provement resulted from our visits to sheep -farmers, 

 although of a very superior class, but we returned 

 wiser in regard to the line of business we were 

 compelled to pursue, and, assisted by our hydro- 

 phobic friend, commenced our novitiate as a tiller 

 of the soil under the most unfavourable circum- 

 stances. Being a bit of an economist, however, 

 we thought to grow a sufficient quantity of oats for 

 the hunter^s stable from afield of some twenty acres, 

 which, at a moderate calculation, ought to have 

 produced at least two hundred sacks ; but, to our 

 disgust, two hundred bushels were not forthcoming, 

 so impoverished had the land become ; and, seeing 

 it impossible to grow cereals, we resolved to begin 

 with roots and food for sheep only. Now the effect 

 of the kennel and stable manure became very ap- 

 parent, and we compounded also with the feeder 

 for his perquisites — the horse-bones. By means 

 of these fertilizers, the land soon recovered from its 

 forlorn condition, and in a few years the produce 

 was nearly doubled : also the grass-land, hitherto 

 barely yielding a ton per acre, carried two. We 

 have entered into these particulars to show that 

 farming and foxhunting ought to go hand in hand 



