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ftrI(fHons, as to his cropping, and that he can leave 

 the farm at any time, giving fix months notice prior 

 to the quarter-day on which he may enter; there- 

 fore agrees for the farm. He does not condefcend 

 to beftow a thought on the rector ; he may take his 

 tithes in kind, if he thinks proper, as the dung to be 

 made from the draw thereof would be no objedl to 

 a farmer of this fort ; but he will give the reftor all 

 the trouble and hindrance in his power, in the 

 colleftion of the tithes, and cheat him if poffiblef 

 Should the reftor be fo fimple as to bring an aftion 

 on the fhatute againfl this bird of paffage, for the 

 tithes literally fubtrafted, he will take care to make 

 the tithes pay the expences incurred in foiling the 

 re£lor, as long as he can. In two or three years 

 after he has commenced tenant, he will apply to his 

 landlord, who pofTibly by this time may have fmelt 

 a rat, and tell him his farm is too dear, and he can 

 hold it no longer without a leafe, and a diminution 

 of rent; if they do not agree, he will apply the 

 plough to the meadows and old paflures, if any in 

 tlie farm, and make fure of one good crop of oats, 

 before he gives his landlord notice that he means to 

 quit it. If the landlord, to fave his meadows and 

 paftures, fhould agree to his terms, he muft give him 

 alfo a good marketable leafe, and which he affigns 

 as foon as he can, provided he gets a premium ro 

 his liking; for farmers of this fort never farm, their 



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