Nearly all have ample kitchen accommodation, fair beds, and an
equipment of glass, china, and crockery, which shows how cheap and good
are the necessaries of life in England. The well-to-do agricultural
labourer and his wife, whose children are out in the world, the village
artisans, small tradesfolk, and "retired" couples are the owners or
occupiers, and now let their rooms at from L1 to L1 10s. per week, from
June till the middle of September. The results are good in every way.
Visitors are pleased at what seems a cheap holiday, and the letters of the
rooms save money for the winter, and realise in a pleasant way that their
later years have fallen on good times. It is also an encouragement to
landowners to build good and picturesque cottages. For the first time they
see their way to charging a fair rent on their outlay. The town comes to
help the country, and the country sees in the movement a hopeful future.
NETTING STAGS IN RICHMOND PARK
About the opening of the year I went to see the big stags netted in
Richmond Park for transfer to Windsor. Last season this unique and ancient
hunting had to be put off till February. There was too much "bone" in the
ground to make riding safe.
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