  Eve, tired of the tension of war anxiety in town, determines to join the army of farmworkers. She and Adam therefore journey to Mudshire and offer their services to Farmer Giles. He suggests that they should commence by looking after the lambs, which pleased Eve immensely, as it meant a journey to town to procure a ducky little Watteau shepherdess gown. The lambs were hardly less affected than Farmer Giles. Eve’s artistic sense is deeply offended by the bizarre, not to say early-Victorian, markings of the cows; however, a judicious application of paints transformed them into ornamental as well as useful members of the community. Farmer Giles’s hair is, you will observe, rising in horror and pushing his hat of his head. (Eve can’t draw cows’ legs; hasn’t she got out of it cleverly?) |
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