16 BREWING. [NO. 



fire again to be made, the clattering tea-tackle again 

 to come forward ; and even in the longest day she 

 must have candle light, which never ought to be seen 

 in a cottage (except in case of illness) from March to 

 September. 



24. Now, then, let Js take the bare cost of the use 

 of tea. I suppose a pound of tea to last twenty days ; 

 which is not nearly half an ounce every morning and 

 evening. I allow for each mess half a pint of milk. 

 And I allow three pounds of the red dirty sugar to 

 each pound of tea. The account of expenditure 

 would then stand very high ; but to these must be 

 added the amount of trie tea tackle, one set of which 

 will, upon an . be demolished every year. 

 To these outgoings must be added the cost of beer 

 at the public-house ; for some the man will have, 

 after all, and the woman too, unless they be upon 

 tin* point of actual starvation. Two pots a week is 

 as little as will serve in this way ; and here is a dead 

 loss of ninepence a week, seeing that two pots of 

 beer, full as strong, and a great deal better, can be 

 brewed at home for threepence. The account of the 

 year's tea drinking will then stand thus : 



L. s. d. 



181b. of tea . . . 4 10 



541b. of sugar . . . 1 11 6 



365 pints of milk . . . 1 10 



Tea t u klo . . . 050 



200 i ... 16 8 



30 days' work . . . 15 



Loss by going to public-house 1 19 



.11 7 2* 



25. I have here estimated every thing at its very 

 lowest. The entertainment which I have here pro- 

 vided is as poor, as mean, as miserable as any thing 

 short of starvation can set forth ; and yet the wretch- 

 ed thing amounts to a good third part of a good and 

 able labourer's wages ! For this money, he and his 



* The above items may be converted into United States' money by 

 reckoning 4s 6d to tho dollar : Thus As 4*. 6d. : 1 dollar: : 1U It. 2d. ; 

 50 dollars 43 cents. 



