Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st thus, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Material previously published in The Village Book, and The Labouring Life, reworked in the light of the author's later experience. Chapters include: The badger dig; The darkening of the doorway; The well; The mystery of a damp cottage; An old-world courting; A village David and Goliath; The old cob cottage; The Ackymals; Billy Goldsworthy's barn; P.C. Bullcornworthy; Cemetery or burial ground?; Billy Goldsworthy's cow; The Zeale brothers; The linhay on the downs; The fox in the moonlight.
