INDEX. 



305 



Death-bed visit to pig, 300 

 Decline of female labour, 160 



of male labour, 160 

 Degradation, Social, 178 

 Demoralising conditions, 221 



overcrowding, 196 

 Denbighshire, 77, 84-5, 153 

 Depopulation, 47 



in England and Wales, 158 

 in Ireland, 160 

 in Scotland, 160 

 Population and, 158 

 Depression, Cause of, 178 

 Derbyshire, 3, 9, 13, 15, 25, 50, 



54, 60, 148-9) 153 

 Derrygonnelly hiring fair, 124 

 Destruction by children, 224 

 Devon cottages, 206 

 Description of, 187 

 village, A, 227 



Devonshire, 3-4, 13, 35-7, 50, 54, 

 60, 88, 153, 155, 189-90, 

 192-4, 201-2, 206, 219, 

 225, 227-37, 260, 265-7, 

 271, 278, 286, 291-2 

 cider, 188 



Diagram of crowded cottage, 196 

 Dietary of Scotch peasants, 112, 



114 



Dining with a pig club, 300 

 Disgrace to cottage owners, 200 

 " Distressful country, The," 130 

 Distribution of work, 5 

 Ditches, Cleaning, 23 

 Ditching, 7 



" Dog allowance," 263 

 Domestic matters, Ignorance of, 



220 



service, 15 

 Donegal, 123-4, J 3i> *33> 140. 



148-9, 153, 155 

 Dorchester, 271 

 Dorset, Description of, 189 

 Dorsetshire, 3, 15, 24, 27, 34, 

 36-7, 50, 54> 60, 153, 187, 

 I 9-5 I 97 200-1, 219, 224, 

 260, 264-5, 271, 276-7, 

 286, 291 



" Double binding," The, 94 

 Down, 126, 131, 133, 135, 153 

 Drainage, Reeking, 198 



water, 274-5 

 Draining, 7, 23, 77, 92 

 Dress, Change in, 290 



food, and " credit," 284-94 

 Drilling, 23 

 Drills, " Extras " for working, 29 



20 



Drink allowance, 35 



at harvest, 99 



Money spent on (Scotland), 113 



Value of, 52 

 Dripping consumed, 58 



(Scotland), in 

 Drunkenness at hiring fairs, 222 



Village without, 282 

 Dublin, 131, 148, 153, 155 

 Dumbarton, 103-6, 108, no, 153 

 Dumfries, 93, 103, 105-8, no, 153, 



155 



Dunbar, 97, 107 

 Dundee, 107 



Dungannon hiring fair, 124 

 Durham, 2, 6, 9-10, 12, 14-15, 18, 

 20, 27, 32, 36-7, 50-1, 54, 

 60, 148, 153, 155-6, 235 

 Dwellings, 194 

 Bad, 204, 206 

 Improvement in, 271-80 



EARNINGS AT HARVEST, 31-4 

 in Scotland, total, 104 



Weekly amounts of, 104 

 in United Kingdom, General 



average of, 151-6 

 in Wales, Total, 85 

 of all classes (Scotland), Weekly, 



in 



of Irish peasants, 130-5 

 of Scotch peasants, 102-9 

 over wages, Excess of (Scotland), 



108 

 Yearly (Scotland), 104 



of married men (Scotland), 



103 

 of unmarried men (Scotland), 



103 



Earthen cottage floor, 206 

 Eastern counties, 8, 33, 58, 60 

 East Lothian, 149 

 Easy payments for freeholds, 179 

 Edinburgh, 103, 105-8, no, 149, 



153. 156 



Educating influences, 177 

 Education Acts, 223 

 Educational, Improvement in 



1868-9, 222 



Education and character, 219-22 

 Education not mere book know- 

 ledge, 178 

 Egg industry in Roscommon, Big, 



142 

 Eggs consumed (Scotland), in, 



"3 

 (Ireland), 137, 138 



