. A free farmer in a free state: a study of rural life and industry and agricultural politics in an agricultural country . <; ^ e4 < Q. Q Z <: J •J o c^ Hri w J K oo kJ X u ^ tn m J^ u o hJ J5 o < Pi < H !j < HH h-) Ch HI O O u ;i: < DIVIDENDS OF THE SIMPLE LIFE 313 independently of trains and carriages. One day at Rotter-dam, early in the morning, I had to wheel my machine fromthe station to the river. By taking short cuts I missed myway a little, and a schoolboy put me right. He insistedon coming all the way with me in order to practise myEnglish. I wonder whether one wo
. A free farmer in a free state: a study of rural life and industry and agricultural politics in an agricultural country . <; ^ e4 < Q. Q Z <: J •J o c^ Hri w J K oo kJ X u ^ tn m J^ u o hJ J5 o < Pi < H !j < HH h-) Ch HI O O u ;i: < DIVIDENDS OF THE SIMPLE LIFE 313 independently of trains and carriages. One day at Rotter-dam, early in the morning, I had to wheel my machine fromthe station to the river. By taking short cuts I missed myway a little, and a schoolboy put me right. He insistedon coming all the way with me in order to practise myEnglish. I wonder whether one would readily find anEnglish schoolboy anxious to go out of his way with astranger, about eight oclock in the morning, in order topractise his French ? Yet a Dutch friend once said to me, I would our boys were more like yours. **The World is Wide.—The man on the land inHolland is broad-minded. All our English agriculturaldeputations have been shown and told every detail ofcheese and butter working they cared to ask about. ADutchman who might be expected to speak with someauthority told me, I regret to say, that this frankness hadnot
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