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their labour, to support themselves on their 

 wages. This brings us to another branch of 

 his expenditure. 



The wages of men cannot long be fixed ; 

 they depend on the season of the year the 

 demand for labour the price of grain, and the 

 kind of employment. I think I may say that a 

 person who farms four hundred acres, will 

 have tpn or a dozen men to pay on the Satur- 

 day night, at the rate of perhaps from ten to 

 fourteen shillings a-piece. The man in the 

 print does not look as if he were receiving less 

 than he had fairly earned. 



With regard to the purchase of stock and 

 materials ; the charge for machines and imple- 

 ments ; carpenters', builders', wheeler^', and 

 blacksmiths' bills ; the cost, or worth of his 

 own produce for the cattle and horses, which 



