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life of the more modern worker. So pleasantly does this 

 make itself felt that to be with one of these old people for 

 an hour's quiet chat is a distinctly restful and soothing 

 experience. 



It is good to hear their ideas of life, and their stories of 

 actual experience, told in the homely wording of their 

 limited vocabulary, and there is a charm in the cheery old 



An Old Labourer 



country voice, with its whimsical twists of quavering 

 modulation. And no less pleasant is the old country 

 manner, whose ready courtesy expresses kindly welcome 

 and cordial good fellowship. 



Among these old folks one hears with pleasure many a 

 terse old phrase and local saying, and many a word of 

 good old English, that those who have the pretension of 

 knowing better have somehow lost, either by sheer neglect, 

 or by letting some rank weed of a word grow up and 



