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goner gets five shillings for every live cart 

 colt that is foaled. These various items, put 

 together, are considered to be equal to a clear 

 eighteen shillings a week. 



I met with a jolly old lady of eighty-five, 

 who entertained great contempt for the 

 luxuries and effeminacy of the present time. 



" My feyther and mother," said she, " were 

 good, pious people ; they reardened ten chil- 

 dren, most on 'em in heaven now. I was 

 married very young, and I began to work 

 'ith my two honds. I have had twelve my- 

 self; ten lived to be married, and some have 

 died since. I have sixty-two grandchildren, 

 and, laws ! I canna tell how many I think 

 about forty great-grandchildren. We hadn' 

 no flowers nor flounces in them days ; it 

 was as much as I could do to get summut 

 clane to put on 'em. My husband worked 

 for twenty year on eight shillin' a week, an' 

 now tha' binna satisfied wi' thirteen shillin ' ! 

 We gotten one cow first, an' then after we 

 gotten three cows an' a bit more lond, and 

 then we gotten a small farm. My children 

 and gran'-children bin all doin' fairly well. 

 I've got enough to keep me, thank God ! I 

 worked as hard as ever till I was eighty, and 

 then I thought it was time for me to give up, 

 and take it easy-like for the rest of my days, 



