27 JULY 1951, Page 18

_ Another thought visited me a j s -I looked on. Our

villages, in a con- tinuum of 4,000 years, orgapised their osm forms of play as a cultural expression of their work,,in the fields. The, daily husbandty, the fruits of the earth and the sport on the green were the inalienable pattern of village-life, which included independence and inter-dependence. And here the old bones were dancing in their sepulchre.