So the pony cart and pony were purchased for her, and in this she went into the distant market town twice or more weekly.

Sometimes it was for shopping, sometimes to fetch household goods, sometimes to see friends; any excuse answered very well.

The governess said, and really believed, that it was better for Georgie to be away from the farm as much as possible, to see town people (if only a country town), and to learn their ways.
The many cheap illustrated papers giving the last details of fashionable costumes were, of course, brought home to be carefully read in the evenings.

These publications have a large circulation now in farmhouses.
Naturally Georgie soon began to talk about, and take an interest--as girls will do--in the young gentlemen of the town, and who was and who was not eligible.

As for the loud-voiced young farmers, with their slouching walk, their ill-fitting clothes, and stupid talk about cows and wheat, they were intolerable.