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INDEX. 



Poultry keeping, 61 



in Ireland, 138 

 Poverty, 241-5 



in the West, 193 

 Preaching, Inutility of, 221 

 Press, Power of the, 177 

 " Privileges," 183, 195 



dying out, 270-2 



in Devon, 229 



Sundry, 253-5 

 Prize animals, 30 



herds, 55 



Profligacy at hiring fairs, 222 

 Progress, 178 



from 1872 to 1880, 177 

 Prosperous family, A, 52 

 Puddleton, 265, 271, 277 

 Pudsey, 262 

 Punch, 234 



Punishment, A novel, 296 

 Purchase made easy, 179 

 Pure breeding, 17 



QUARRY COMPETITION in Wales, 84 

 ueen's County, 131, 133, 135, 

 154. 156 



RACK-RENTED ALLOTMENTS, 251 

 Radnorshire, 84-5, 154 

 Rags for bedclothes, 206 

 Railway labour, 263, 268 

 Railways, Development of , 177 

 " Rainy days," 41 

 Rambles into peasant-land, 181 

 Rape in the United Kingdom, 



Total of, 170 

 Rates and taxes, 44 

 Rates assist farmers, 39 

 Refreshments as extras, 98 

 Registration of title, 162 

 Regular wages, 38 

 Renfrew, 95, 103-6, 108, no, 126, 



154. 156 

 Rent free, 37 

 Rent from dairy produce (Ireland), 



139 



Rents of allotments, 173 

 Rent " worked out " (Ireland), 



128 

 Report of 1843, 194, 195 



of 1868-70, 194 

 Rice consumed, 58 

 (Scotland), in 

 Ricks, Thatching of, 7 

 Rising from the ranks, 18 

 Ritchie, Mr. C. T., 162 

 " Road money," 29 



Robinson, Sir John, 192 

 Rock of possession, Solid, 180 

 Romance and reality, 181-6 

 Romance of Peasant Life, The, 



194 



Room for improvement, 179 

 Rooms overcrowded, 195, 199 

 Root-lifting, 7 

 Roscommon, 9, 123, 131, 133, 135, 



148, 156 

 Ross, 94-5, 103, 105-6, 108, no, 



J 54 



Rough ground to traverse, 5 

 Routine farmwork, 22 

 Roxburgh, 93, 103, 105, 107-8, 



no, 149, 154 



Royal Commission on Labour, 44 

 Ruinous hovels, 201 

 "Rules" of a pig - insurance 



society, 299 

 Rutlandshire, 15, 20, 25, 50, 54, 



60, 149, 154, 156, 200 

 Rye in the United Kingdom, Total 



of, 170 



SAINFOIN in the United Kingdom, 



Total of, 1 70 

 Salisbury, 191 



Plain, 191, 263 

 St. Patrick's Day engagements 



(Ireland), 125 

 Saltaire, 274 

 Salt, Sir Titus, 274 

 Sanitary dwellings, 46 

 Schools in 1870, 220 

 " Scores " at shopkeepers', 264 



Running up, 293 

 Scotch peasant, Help for the, 179 

 Scotland, 9 



Scottish agricultural counties, 

 107 



industrial districts, 107 



peasant, The, 91 



peasants, Sober, 113 



shepherds, 108 

 Searchlight of progress, 178 

 Seaweed for manure (Ireland), 139 



gathering (Ireland), 123 

 " Second wringing," The, 239 

 Seedsman, The, 21 

 Self-binding machines, 10 

 Selkirk, 93, 103, 105, 107-8, no, 



*49, 154 



Selling " allowed " food, 100 

 Seven, At work at, 229 

 " Seven Years After," 256-300 

 Severe cottage rules, 282 



