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had come under his notice at Nunburnholme of 

 labourers, or, as he always preferred to call them, 

 husbandmen, who had raised themselves by their 

 meritorious exertions to the rank of small farmers. 

 In writing on one occasion to the Times on this 

 subject, he mentioned the case of a man who had 

 been employed at the Rectory at half-a-crown a 

 day, and who subsequently saved enough money 

 to take a farm of eighty acres on a long lease, 

 which farm he had had a hand in obtaining for 

 him. He told of another similar instance where 

 the man had seven cows and calves, a horse, carrier's 

 cart, and ten acres of glebe land, besides some more 

 that he rented. Of a third from another parish 

 where the erewhile husbandman now rented a small 

 farm of sixty acres. A fourth mentioned held a 

 farm of from eighty to ninety acres. A fifth held 

 some thirty-six acres in the West Riding. On these 

 and similar cases he remarked : 



" I may here say that all these men, as well as 

 others to a lesser extent, have been greatly aided in 

 their endeavours to raise themselves by allotment 

 gardens, which had been set out for them, as much 

 as wanted a rood or half an acre to each, by 

 one of my predecessors in this living ; and not long 

 after I came here I furthered the same object by 

 setting apart fifteen acres of good grass land as cow- 

 gaits, which they prize most highly, and which are 

 the greatest possible benefit to themselves and their 

 children. By these, and such-like means as these, 

 and the small farms spoken of, not only the clergy, 



