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made to reward their servants, at the end of 

 wheat-sowing, and which Tusser mentions 

 next to the festival of harvest-home : 



'*. Wife, sometime this week, if the weather hold cleer, 

 an end of wheat-sowing we make for this yeere : 

 Remember thou, therefore, though I do it not, 

 the seed-cake, the pastries, and furmenty-pot." 



We regret to find, that refinement has so 

 far crept into the farm-houses, as to banish 

 this feast, and in many instances, even the 

 harvest-supper. We cannot see these old 

 customs abolished, which time has almost 

 made sacred, without feelings of regret ; and 

 we are satisfied, that the master loses none 

 of his importance by joining in these annual 

 feasts and rustic sports, but, on the contrary, 

 attaches his servants to the interests of his 

 family, and keeps them from the habit of fre- 

 quenting public ale-houses ; therefore, every 

 good subject, who is solicitous for the pros- 

 perity of the farmer and happiness of the 

 husbandman, will be glad to see Thomson's 

 festive descriptions realized : 



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Nor wanting is the brown October, drawn, 

 Mature and perfect, from his dark retreat 

 Of thirty years;" ■ 



