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and drunkenness was of common occurrence ; but he 

 was a man to whom might be applied with great 

 truth, the line suaviter in modo, fortiter in re ; and 

 having brought his foreman and deputy-foreman, from 

 his other works, he made it known as his irrevocable 

 determination, that he would immediately, and for 

 ever, dismiss any man who became intoxicated a 

 second time, during the period when he ought to be 

 at work ; for though it was no injury to the concern 

 in a pecuniary point of view, because the men were 

 paid by the quantum of work performed, yet it was 

 an injury to the other men if one of their number 

 was incapable of taking his share of the duty, as they 

 were obliged to have a man from another branch of 

 the works as a substitute. The first time any work 

 man became intoxicated he was fined, had to pay his 

 substitute, and was wheeled to his lodgings or house 

 in the village, in a large barrow, the bell of the mill 

 tolling all the time. Under my father's judicious 

 management, the workmen became steady, and most 

 of them respectable householders in the parish ; 

 some kept a cow upon the common, pigs, and poul 

 try, until the rage for inclosing, got up by country 

 attornies for their own especial benefit, reached this 

 village : many were deprived of advantages enjoyed 

 for ages by their ancestors, and some died in the 

 village workhouse in consequence of losing them. 



