48 MAKING BREAD. [No. 



more than four children (and if he have more, some 

 ought to be doing something;) who has a garden of 

 a quarter of an acre of land (for that makes part of 

 my plan ; who has a wife as industrious as she ought 

 to be ; who does not waste his earnings at the ale- 

 house or the tea shop : I should be glad to know how 

 such a man, while wheat shall be at the price of 

 about 6s. a bushel, can possibly have children crying 

 for bread ! 



84. Cry, indeed, they must, if he will persist in 



fiving 135. for a bushel of bread instead of 5s. 9d. 

 uch a man. is not to say that the bread which I have 

 described is not good enough. It was .good enough for 

 his forefathers, who were too proud to be paupers, 

 that is to say, abject and willing slaves. " Hogs eat 

 barley." And hogs will eat wheat, too, when they 

 can get at it. Convicts in condemned cells eat 

 wheaten bread ; bat we think it no degradation to 

 eat wheaten bread, too. I am for depriving the la- 

 bourer of none of his rights; I would have him 

 oppressed in no manner or shape ; I would have him 

 bold and free ; but to have him such, he must have 

 bread in his house, sufficient for all his family, and 

 whether that bread be fine or coarse must depend 

 upon the different circumstances which present them- 

 selves in the cases of different individuals. 



85. The married man has no right to expect the 

 same plenty of food and of raiment that the single 

 man has. The time before marriage is the time to 

 lay by, or, if the party choose, to indulge himself in 

 the absence of labour. To marry is a voluntary act, 

 and it is attended in the result with great pleasures 

 and advantages. If, therefore, the laws be fair and 

 equal ; if the state of things be such that a labouring 

 man can, with the usual ability of labourers, and with 

 constant industry, care and sobriety ; with decency 

 of deportment towards all his neighbours, cheerful 

 obedience to his employer, and a due subordination 

 to the laws ; if the state of things be such, that such 

 a man's earnings be sufficient to maintain himself 

 and family with food, raiment, and lodging needful 



