16-i FACT AGAINST FICTlOX. 



used to shelter the babe in prayer and good 

 behaviour, and surely now they should aid us, 

 by all just means in their power, and of course 

 without hurting themselves upon tlieir own waste 

 lands, if they have any, in producing more food 

 for the community. 



Many a noble duke and peer of my acquaintance 

 would be only too happy to get tenants — re- 

 sponsible tenants, of course, — for tlieir waste lands ; 

 but tenants are not to be found who will under- 

 take a too visible failure, and it would be insanity 

 for even stump-orators to urge that the proprietors 

 themselves should attempt to cultivate their wastes, 

 when the said proprietors had ascertained that no 

 useful product except rabbits could be induced 

 to grow. 



There is another fact that men in their walk 

 through life should have noticed before theij attempt 

 to say what lands could or could not be made to 

 do. There is scarce an extensive heath in England 

 but that a searching eye can discover on parts 

 of it the remains of ridge and furrow. Therefore, 

 some predecessors had attempted cultivation on 

 that spot, and found that it would yield notliing I 

 Depend upon it; in other times of experimental 



