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potatoes, a free plot of land for growing vege- 

 tables, an allowance of beef or of bacon, a regular 

 Christmas present of clothes or of blankets, free 

 milk, free beer or cider, grazing privileges — 

 these are some of the extras which sometimes 

 make up a miserable wage into quite a decent 

 earning. There are, too, certain privileges on 

 big estates which the children of the estate 

 labourers enjoy. Puppy- walking money is one 

 of them ; and also a first call on domestic 

 service vacancies in " the hall." 



On the whole, the conditions of agricultural 

 labour are not at all the worst in Great Britain. 



England. It bears out my estimate with the following classified 

 summary (which probably ignores a few of the advantages from 

 gifts, etc., enjoyed by tenants on good estates) : — 



