ALLOTMENT SYSTEM. 85 



&quot; Harris, in the Union House, resembled a mouse in a granary 

 devouring the fruits of labor ; but does not this same Harris, on 

 his five acres, resemble the mouse in the fable, releasing 

 the famishing lion? for by his rent he is helping to support 

 the owner of the soil, by his rates the poor, by his tithes 

 the church, and by his taxes the state, which surprises those who 

 have long been accustomed to hear it is requisite to let land in 

 large farms, for the supply of food for large towns. 



&quot; But do not the HIGHER RENTS paid for allotments of land 

 by the spade than the plough, show that, after supporting the 

 cultivators and their families, they send more to market per acre 

 than the great farmers ? 



&quot; It was the eagerness of laborers in Sussex to hire land, that 

 suggested the possibility of some men to obtain as much as five 

 acres, undertaking to teach reading, &c., three hours daily with 

 out a salary, without at all anticipating that twelve boys, aver 

 aging eight years of age, by their labor for three hours after noon, 

 could well pay for their instruction in school before noon ; but 

 a trial of upwards of three years has put this beyond doubt, as 

 dozens o-f signatures in the visitors book testify, of clergymen 

 and members of both Houses of Parliament, not only of this 

 neighborhood, but also from Ireland and Scotland, amongst 

 whom was MJ&amp;gt;. Townshend Mainwaring, M. P. for Denbigh, who 

 inspected these schools April 29th, 1843, and entered in the East 

 Dean visitors book, that he was much gratified by the complete 

 success which appeared to attend the simple principle upon which 

 the school was conducted. 



&quot; And these self-supporting schools require much less superin 

 tendence than where the master has a fixed salary, because, if he 

 neglected or misused the boys before noon, their parents are not 

 likely to send them back to work for him after noon. 



&quot;He is interested in cultivating the land well, as it is the only 

 support of his family. 



&quot; Landlords are interested in letting land to masters who pay 

 high rents. 



&quot; Rate-payers are interested in able-bodied men being enabled 

 to maintain themselves. 



&quot; Parents are interested in sending their children where they 

 early learn to earn their livings in that state of life unto which it 

 has pleased God to call them. 

 8 



