“My lady she was always doing kind to me.” “Mrs. P. washed my clothes before I came home to save Mother doing it.” “My lady told Mr. S. to shake her tree for our apples.” “The person that Boarded me gave me nice thing to bring back.” In some cases the thrifty, tidy ways of the country hostesses conveyed their lessons. “She use to make browan bread and She use to make her own cakes and apple turn overs and eggloes and current cake.” “The wind came in my room and blew me in the night.” “We always had table clothes where I was.” “I washed myself well my lady liked it.” “We cleaned our teeth down in the country ever morning.” Sometimes examples on deeper matters were observed and approved of. “Every morning and dinner and tea we say grace.” “The lady told us Sunday School was nice and we went.” “We had Church 3 times. Morning noon and night”-- is not reported with entire approval, but the letter ends:-- “I loved my holidays very much and hope that I can go next year to live with the same lady”. A boy writes:-- “The lady was very kind she never said any naughty words to me”. And another lad reports:-- “I was fed extremely well and treated with the best respect”. One little girl had clear views on the proper position of man. “My ladie,” she writes, “had a big pig 4 little ones, 2 cats. some hens a bird in a cage a apple tree a little boy and a Huband.” Sometimes the history of the place has been impressed on the children. “I (aged eleven) was very glad I went to Guildford because Sir Lancelot and Elaine lived there but its name was then Astolat.” “When I (aged eleven) reached Burnham Thorp I felt the change of air and I heard the birds sing--and then I knew that I should see the place where our great English sailor Lord Nelson was born,”-- he being a character so indissolubly associated with innocent country joys. The letters both begin and end in a variety of ways, for though I do not write all the letters which are issued to the children by the Countryside Committee of the Children’s Country Holiday Fund, it is considered better for me as Chairwoman to sign them, so as to give a more personal tone to the lengthy printed chat, which the teachers themselves open, kindly read and talk about to the children, and a copy of which each child can have if it so wishes. Thus the reply letters are all sent to me, and the vast majority begin “Dear Madam”; but some are less conventional, and I have those commencing, “Dear Mrs. Barnett,” “Dear Country Holdday Site Commtie,” “Dear friend,” “Dear Miss,” while the feeling of personal relation was evidently so real to one small boy that he began his epistle with “Dear Henrietta”--I delight in that letter! Among the concluding words are the following: “Your affectionate little friend,” “Your loving pupil,” “From one who enjoyed,” “Yours gratefully,” “Yours truly Friend”. Some of the regrets at leaving the country are very pathetic:--