46 FENCING. 



is not lineally descended from a stone-waller 

 parent. 



There is no part of husbandry in which, in 

 my time, the landlords of North Derbyshire 

 have been so cheated (and it is a bold assertion, 

 numerous as the instances of this kind are, 

 as most landowners know to their cost) than 

 in fence-walling, and it is very often the em- 

 ployer's own fault. Every man who finds his 

 employer niggardly in his price for labour, or 

 finds that he has made a bad bargain for 

 himself, will take care of himself by temper- 

 ing the work to the price that he is to have 

 for doing it, or " tempering the work to the 

 salary,'* as a stone-mason observed to me, 

 who was a candidate for the situation and ap- 

 pointment as a county-bridge surveyor; and 

 I have known many such instances in stone- 

 walling, and in stone-draining also, before the 

 blessings of tile and pipe draining dawned 

 upon us. The sough was laid, covered, and 

 filled up out of sight of the employer; the 



