So this cottage in the country, did you have any different tools
there from the ones you had at West Ham? Well,
yes, I had the fork, spade, hoe rake - that's all I needed. I began digging the
plot, this is true - old Joe Berry came along, he said - "That's no way to
dig Mr. Matthews - let me show you how to." He took all the backbreaking
part out of it, he showed me how to dig properly.
So you had lessons?
That was using a spade, not a fork so you put the spade
in one side, put in the front and took up that row, turned it over one spade
length away - it made an amazing difference, you got through it very quickly
and it looked nearly as good as Joe could do it.
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