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before they were six. He said it was bitterly 

 cold on winter mornings, and that he often ate 

 the turnips for the sheep — with wheat £$ per 

 quarter and farmers making fortunes. But not 

 the sort of fortunes to last one thinks. 



Why on earth there wasn't an English Revolu- 

 tion as well as a French Revolution one cannot 

 imagine, save that the ancient spirit of the English 

 people had been crushed out. There was a rising 

 against the Corn Laws, but compared with old 

 times how tame it was! The future seems more 

 promising, for we are moving in the right direction. 

 Allotments and small holdings will increase in 

 spite of alarms and cries that they don't always 

 pay, and we shall see a great extension of piece 

 work. The latter follows the former, for once a man 

 has worked for himself, he gets the taste for hard 

 work and good pay, and never loses it. You find 

 the extremes side by side, one man working 

 regularly for 15s. or 16s. on a farm, the other 

 takes to special work, navvying (cleaning water- 

 ways), hay and straw pressing and so on, earning 

 from 30s. to £3 per week. He works twice as hard 

 as the first man and twice as intelligently, and 

 gets from two to four times his pay — a fair return 

 for both master and man. It always pays a master 

 to have intelligent men who are anxious to get 

 on — and farmers should more and more let their 



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