Before I took to seeing after the land, I had a salary of three hundred pounds from the service.

Now I do more work than I did in the service, and like you I get five per cent.

on the land, and thank God for that.

But one's work is thrown in for nothing.

" "Then why do you do it, if it's a clear loss?" "Oh, well, one does it! What would you have? It's habit, and one knows it's how it should be.