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bacon, and vegetables ; or on Monday, beef or mutton left over 

 from Sunday, and then, for the rest of the week, bacon with 

 potatoes, bread, and puddings. For drink, home-brewed beer 

 (on Sundays, fresh meat, vegetables, and puddings). Tea and 

 Supper. The same as for breakfast, or, it may be, bacon, veget- 

 ables, cake, puddings, tea. Notes. Nearly all the labourers 

 keep pigs ; some two pigs, one to eat and one to sell. They also 

 have allotments of various sizes, up to even as much as an acre. 

 In these they occasionally grow wheat, and make their own 

 bread from their own flour, as well as a good quantity of potatoes. 

 Now and then they buy a sack from the farmer. They also 

 often brew their own beer. In their allotments or cottage 

 gardens they grow fruit sometimes. Benefit societies and 

 clothing clubs are found to have a good many labourers as 

 members. 



WILTSHIRE. 



Breakfast. Bread and salt butter or lard, tea; in summer 

 fresh butter is used. Dinner. Bacon and vegetables (on Sundays, 

 sometimes fresh meat, and rice or suet pudding). Tea. Bread 

 or toast, and salt butter or lard, and tea. Supper. Kettle 

 broth (made of boiling water poured over bread with a little 

 butter, pepper or salt) is sometimes taken for supper, and also 

 for breakfast. Notes. A good many of the men keep pigs, and 

 all, or nearly all, have allotments or good gardens. A con- 

 siderable number belong to benefit societies and coal and 

 clothing clubs. 



WORCESTERSHIRE. 



Breakfast. Tea, bread, butter or jam. The men often have 

 cheese and sometimes bacon. Dinner. The men take tea, 

 bread, cheese, and sometimes bacon or pork, or cold meat left 

 over from Sundays. The children take bread, butter or jam ; 

 sometimes vegetables, and some bacon (on Sundays the family 

 has fresh meat, pudding, and vegetables). Tea. The men have 

 no tea as a rule. The children have tea, bread and butter, or 

 jam. Supper. The men take tea, bread and cheese. But if 

 they are away from home at dinner-time, they have something 

 hot for supper, such as vegetables with a little bacon, or occasion- 

 ally pork. The children do not usually have supper. Note. 

 About three-fourths of the men keep one pig a year for fattening. 

 They usually have good gardens, but no allotments. They 

 generally belong to benefit societies, and sometimes to coal and 

 clothing clubs. Some of the farmers give cider. 



YORKSHIRE. 



In the East Riding 



Breakfast. Bacon, bread, tea. Dinner. Beef, potatoes, 

 pudding, or fruit tart (on Sundays, hot beef). Tea and Supper. 

 Bacon, fruit tart, bread and butter, tea. Note. Nearly all the 

 men keep pigs, and have good gardens or allotments. Many have 



