74 BRITISH RURAL LIFE AND LABOUR. 



sufficient grass land to keep a cow. Practically every labourer 

 belongs to a benefit society, and a good many to coal and 

 clothing clubs. 



In the North Riding 



Breakfast. Bread, bacon, tea (on Sundays there is an 

 addition of butter). Dinner. Bread, potatoes, cold beef or 

 mutton, fruit-pie or pudding, and tea (on Sundays, hot roast 

 beef, bread, potatoes, and green vegetables, fruit pie or pudding, 

 and tea. Tea or Supper. Bread, butter, bacon or cheese, tea, 

 and sometimes potatoes (on Sundays, for tea, hot toast, cakes, 

 tea, butter or jam ; and for Sunday supper, cold meat and 

 potatoes). Note. Most of the cottages have good gardens, 

 but many men do not keep pigs. They generally, however, 

 belong to benefit clubs. 



Although the preceding accounts are not absolutely 

 exhaustive, for to give a complete account would require 

 the space of a large volume, they give a very interest- 

 ing and representative idea of the daily food and drink 

 of the English agricultural labourer. 



