It deals with his life as the first Medical Inspector of Schools in the Transvaal, from 1914 onwards, "years of pioneering inspection", he wrote, "not likely to be forgotten... I travelled many thousands of miles every year, by rail, in a motor car, and on horseback: sometimes alone, sometimes accompanied by a school attendance officer to guide me when the road were not marked in the map..."Leipoldt's eye-witness account of an almost lost period of rural South African life, with its pleasure and problems, its achievements and defeats, is rich with anecdote and insight.