252 BRITISH RURAL LIFE AND LABOUR. 



times a good master would let his men have potato- 

 ground, either free or at a normal rent, in no case higher 

 than the larger tenant paid the squire : would give the 

 use of his horses to plough it up, if meadow or rough 

 arable, and would further give seed potatoes free and 

 all the manure that was necessary from the ample heaps 

 on the farm. 



These generous exceptions were made by men really 

 wise in their generation : for such treatment of their 

 dependants was sure to attract the best and most faithful 

 service : and therefore the considerate action would 



" pay." 



