_Dorsetshire_, _the centre of the_ “_Hardy Country_,” _the home of the Wessex Novels_, _is a land literally flowing with milk and honey_: _a land of great dairies_, _of flowers and bees_, _of rural industries_, _where rustic ways and speech and habits of thought live long_, _and the kindlier virtues are not forgotten in such stress of life as prevails in towns_: _a land desirable for its own sweet self_, _where you may see the beehives in cottage gardens and therefrom deduce that honey of which I have spoken_, _and where that flow of milk is no figure of speech_. _You may indeed hear the swish of it in the milking pails at almost every turn of every lane_. _Thatch survives in every village_…
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