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by a footpath across the fields. It is very pleasant to 

 follow this slight track, this connecting thread, which 

 brings to mind Richard Carew's account of the poor 

 Cornish farmers of his time, three centuries ago, when 

 he says that "amongst themselves they agree well and 



A CORNISH STILE 



company lovingly together." I recall, too, that some 

 social rodents, that live in communities, in collections 

 of burrows or villages, have a track of that kind lead- 

 ing from village to village, worn by the feet of the 

 little animals in visiting their neighbours. The fields 

 being small you have innumerable stiles to cross in a 

 five or a ten miles walk ; but they do not want climb- 



