Tutor. That being so, I dismiss you with a caution.
[Exit Undergraduate. The Tutor is left pondering.
ANOTHER RURAL CONFERENCE.
[A Church Dignitary, writing to The Globe, suggests that the rural reform most urgently needed is a better postal system in the shires.]
Radical Reformer (meeting Rural Labourer tramping to London). Yours is a typical case, my man. You are a victim of our insensate Land Laws, or exploded Feudalism. No doubt you are leaving the country because you could not find employment there?
Rural Labourer. 'Tisn't that so much. Old Gaffer always had summat for a man to do, I can tell ye.
Radical Reformer. Glad to hear it, though it's unusual. Then I suppose it is the intolerable dulness of the country that drives you away from it.
Rural Labourer. 'Tisn't that either. Things be a bit dull in winter-time, cert'nly. But there—we've a Public, also a Free Reading Room, and—