280 BRITISH RURAL LIFE AND LABOUR. 



ment in peasant dwellings is conspicuous in the picture 

 of peasant life which we have endeavoured to paint, 

 as representative of the year 1880, eight years after 

 the first uprising of farm labourers in Warwickshire ; 

 and that there were abundant signs that the reforms 

 begun would go steadily onward as the years rolled by. 



