I had a plain talk with your uncle when I married him, and said, 'Now my boy's only a baby and I want him to be brought up so that he will love country life.

How are we going to manage it ?' "Your uncle looked at me with a sly twinkle in his eye, and said I was a pretty fair specimen of a country girl, suppose we brought up Harry the way I'd been brought up.

I knew he was only joking, yet I got quite excited.

'Yes,' I said, 'Do as my father and mother did.

Have a farm about twice as large as you can manage.