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ing common good luck with live flock, the 



" neat produce of his farm, juft clears its 



11 expences, buys him a new coat, and pays 



' his landlord : But this done, he finds him- 



' felf without a fixpence left in his pocket 



8 for manure, or to go to a cheap market 



IC with. 



" This however is not all. In the courfe 

 8 of the year he lofes a cow, perhaps a horfe 

 " What is to be done ? He is pennylefs, and 

 ' cannot borrow a fhilling in the whole 

 " country. Why, he mufl either do with- 

 8 out, to the great prejudice of his farm, or 

 8 fell feme other part of his flock to replace 

 " them with. 



The next year, his wheat, or his turnip 



i: crop fails him. He has not a fhilling be- 



" fore-hand to carry him over the difficulty; 



8 he confcquently becomes in arrear with 



; his landlord; his fpirits are broken; his 



" land not only wants manure, but even la- 



<c bour and teathe ; for he is glad to fell his 



" bullocks before Chriftmas, to keep his 



8 landlord in temper. The confequence 



" need not be traced. 



<fi Thus it appears, that the poverty of 



6 prefent farmers, more particularly of 



L " middling 



