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formed that to persuade them to take medicine they must be 

 stood over whip in hand. 



The poor, meek Hungarian labourer uncovers at the sight of 

 the carriage-and-pair, and remains bare-headed till it is out 

 of sight again. He has not yet felt the effects of emancipation. 

 There is no coroner's inquest in Hungary, which is much to be 

 regretted, as it is difficult to estimate the number of violent 

 deaths that occur annually in those remote plains. Certain it 

 is that accidents with threshing-machines are far too common, 

 and I should be sorry to believe the somewhat irresponsible state- 

 ments I have heard as to their frequency. A poor fellow was 

 cut to pieces with a reaping-machine on a great estate the day 

 I visited it, but no official inquiry would be made as to the 

 cause of this sad mishap. The people are ignorant and curiously 

 indolent. They move carelessly about the humming drum of the 

 threshing-machine, and too often slip their poor bare feet ; and 

 then follows a scene which it is fearful to think of. It is for 

 this reason that in my former Report I particularly recommended 

 self-feeders for threshing-machines. The house accommodation 

 for labourers on the estates of the aristocracy cannot be viewed 

 without indignation by an Englishman. We have been arriving 

 slowly at the conclusion that a number of persons of all ages and 

 both sexes should not occupy one and the same sleeping-room. 

 Also that a cottage should possess at least three rooms. Three 

 rooms for one family ! What would the philanthropist say to 

 four families and twenty individuals to one room ? And yet 

 this is quite a common occurrence in Hungary. The accom- 

 panying plan gives a general and correct idea of many a habitation 



Fig. 1. — Ground-jplan of Hungarian Dwelling for Labourers. 



on estates which I visited, a a represent living-rooms, in each 

 corner of which is a bed, e ; Z> is a common lobby ; and c is a 

 hearth ; d d are small store-rooms for meal and other neces- 

 saries, and work tools. Each bed represents a family share oi 

 the mansion. Six or seven bare-footed little wives are either 



