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success of their lives. That kind of Conservatism belongs, 

 no doubt, to a world which is almost bygone ; the diffe- 

 rences in education which were its rational basis are no 

 longer so sharp, and the element of patronage inherent 

 in it has become distasteful to the class which used to 

 accept it with honest gratitude. The change is a whole- 

 some one in its ultimate tendency but it is impossible 

 not to look back with some regret to those older rela- 

 tions between the different elements in village life which, 

 at least so far as my father and his parishioners were 

 concerned, subsisted in spirit until his death. 



There were few c incidents ' in his life, and he came 

 more and more to remain at Bloxworth, except for the 

 occasional visits that have been mentioned, especially 

 after he took the dairy-farm, of which the glebe at Blox- 

 worth mainly consists, into his own hands. He farmed 

 it himself from 1883 until 1915", and during all but the 

 first and last of those years was blessed with the con- 

 tinuous faithful service of the same dairyman, Harry 

 Danniells, and his wife, by whom he was relieved of 

 most of the anxieties which beset a small-holder. It was 

 the death of Danniells in 1914. which (together with his 

 own increasing infirmities) obliged him to let the glebe 

 once more. As he grew older he became increasingly 

 devoted to his flower-garden, and he was particularly 

 delighted when he obtained some new variety of prim- 

 rose or narcissus. The flower-beds in front of the 

 window of his c Den ' formed a very brilliant picture in 



