'A Pumpkin and a Prince 



who are most conspicuous in the social 

 and pictorial columns of the American 

 press. 



I use this case of the late King 

 Edward merely to illustrate, a broad 

 national difference of viewpoint in 

 respect to certain things lying at the 

 very roots of Anglo-Saxon greatness. 

 I afterwards visited other Royal shows, 

 and always found the landed gentry, 

 peers of the realm, members of the 

 royal family and government, men 

 whose names were familiar in high 

 finance and public service, mingling 

 with the sturdy tenantry, the herdsmen 

 and the shepherds; and every man 

 knew what he was looking at, and 

 could appreciate quality wherever pres- 

 ent. They cherish their well-kept 

 herds and flocks as an integral, a vital 

 part of a great inheritance. They 

 regard it as a duty as well as a personal 

 privilege to thoroughly inform them- 

 selves in respect to these truly valuable 

 national possessions, and in the sun- 



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