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As^ Mamma, for instance, and see how much 

 can be learnt on estate management from Sir 

 Moses Mainchance and Major Yammerton. 

 But in Hillingdon Hall Surtees may be said 

 to give himself up almost entirely to this 

 matter. Jorrocks, who seems to have learnt 

 less about country life in his hunting days 

 than most men, goes down to manage an 

 estate he has bought, and although he lets 

 his tenants see that he cannot distinguish an 

 oat crop from wheat or barley, he lectures 

 them on agriculture, till his career is at last 

 checked by Pigg's telling him that they are 

 practically adopting the most ridiculous ideas, 

 such as making drain-pipes with sugar, with 

 which Jorrocks (unknown to Pigg) has filled 

 their heads. But the book contains much 

 ''brave foolincr"; and the letter in which 

 Jorrocks accepts a J. P. -ship, *' I will not 



