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milking- cows and young stock. He sold milk in 

 Martinstown, and the general appearance of his 

 holding seemed to indicate prosperity. He had 

 other small sources of income. 



On another holding of 17 acres was a lime-kiln. 

 The owner, besides working the kiln, was a haulier. 

 He had a boy at home, and employed labour to get 

 out the chalk. He had built a substantial flint 

 and chalk house with three good rooms downstairs 

 and five bedrooms, and was about to build two 

 more houses on his holding. By getting the chalk 

 and flints and sand off his own land and employing 

 a jobbing mason, he calculated he could build a 

 pair of cottages for 150. They would consist of 

 two good rooms downstairs with a lean-to back- 

 kitchen and out-house and three bedrooms up- 

 stairs. 



Houses erected by Holders. 



Of the fifteen dwellings I saw, four were cottages 

 originally on the farm ; two were good-sized brick 

 houses not occupied by the owners (and rented, as 

 I gather, at a loss) ; a few were of the chalk and 

 flint construction common in the neighbourhood, 

 and of these only two were two-storied. The 

 remainder of the houses were exceedingly rough 

 wooden shanties built by the people themselves, 

 all of one story, and many of them with only two 

 rooms. The general opinion seemed to be that 

 those who had put their money into their houses 

 had 'done for themselves.' The pigsties, fowl- 



