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this hillside. There was one man, as I have 

 said, who gained his entire living from his 

 eight acres, .though at the same time it should 

 be mentioned his wife took in washing. He 

 was a good cultivator, and grew potatoes, 

 sainfoin, rye, mangolds, and cabbages, and 

 kept a pony and two cows, besides rearing 

 calves. The largest small holder was he who 

 cultivated sixteen acres, or rather, perhaps, who 

 attempted to cultivate them, for one cannot 

 expect an elderly gentleman of sixty-six years 

 of age, who refuses to employ any labour save 

 at harvest-time, to cultivate properly sixteen 

 acres himself — though he has been for thirty 

 years a teetotaller, a non-shaver, and a strict 

 Baptist ! He keeps six cows and three 

 heifers, growing for them hay, sainfoin, oats, 

 mangolds, and rye. He sells some of the milk 

 and makes the rest into butter. He is an 

 interesting man, for besides the qualities I 

 have already enumerated he refuses to sell his 

 milk according to any standard of measure. 

 He lays down liis own law, and by that you 

 have to abide. The customer who should ask 

 for half a pint of milk would go empty away, 

 unless he chose to accept this small farmer's 

 very liberal pennyworth. 



