236 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



but landed proprietors, larger and lesser, will do 

 much to better the condition of their worthy neigh- 

 bours, and will at the same time largely increase the 

 numbers of those who will have a direct plain interest 

 in supporting them and their cause in the country. 

 They will be public benefactors, the agathoergoi of 

 our day and generation. 



" These instances might be multiplied to a very 

 large extent indeed ; but if the practice of throwing 

 all such farms together into a few very large ones 

 is to be carried out in a still more extensive way, 

 no opening is left for the men I have been speak- 

 ing of, and I can conceive nothing more dispiriting 

 than such a practical non-recognition of their most 

 laudable lives." 



Whatever may have been the case in other parts 

 of England, it was certainly not only possible but 

 common for husbandmen to save money out of their 

 weekly wages in East Yorkshire. As an instance 

 of this, out of many others that might have been 

 given, Mr. Morris mentioned one in a letter on this 

 subject, where a farm-servant in his parish, who 

 had died, had saved 102. In addition to this, he 

 had been in the habit of sending money to his 

 parents, and if this had been taken into account 

 his savings would have amounted to 179 in a 

 period of twelve years. For a portion of the time 

 he had acted as groom. In this same letter, written 

 in 1869, he says : 



" Many farm-servants about here I am speaking 

 of the Wold farms, nearly all of which are large, 



