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been often led to consider the source of this difference. For- 

 merly the poor labourers on an Estate looked for assistance in 

 age or sickness to the hand that paid for their work when they 

 could work ; now they are turned over 



an 



P 



over to the Parish Oili 

 are erected under the name of Workhouses 



for 



those who are past all work. A common Farmer, who works as 

 hard as his labourers, with them, is considered as one of them- 

 selves; but when a very opulent Gentleman Farmer told me that 

 by rising at four o'clock every day, and watching his men all 

 day, he could get more work done, I thought he paid dearly 

 for it; and whether the poor slave is urged on by the lash of the 

 Negro-driver or the dread of confinement in a Workhouse, he 

 must feel that man is not equal, though he may be taught to 

 read that he is so. 



I consider the proximity of the Town of Sherringham as a 



mine of wealth, a source of infinite interest, more 



luabl 



e 



th 



an 



the interest upon interest of the Usurer. The Workhouse, in- 

 stead of an object of terror to the poor and of disgust to the rich, 

 may be made to look more like an Hospital, or an Asylum, an 

 less like a Prison : the Street may be improved, and a cheerful 



Village Green, with benches and a Maypole, 



may 



e mi 



o 



pen 



to this House of Industry : this will remind us that happiness 



may 



e extended to all ranks of mankind. 



Th 



e 



Lab 



ourers 



Cottages belonging to the Estate, may be marked by neatness, 



decorated by those ornamental shrubs and creepers, which 



Wight a Garden so enchanting to 



maKe 



th 



whol 



Isl 



e o 



strangers. 



