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APRIL 20. There is an alerthefs in the fer- WORKMEN. 

 vants and labourers of Norfolk, which I have 

 not obferved in any other diftrict. 



That " cuftom is fecond nature" is verified 

 every hour. How quick and alert are the tradef- 

 people and handicraftmen in London ! They 

 will difpatch as much buiinefs in a given time 

 as the very fame people, had they been bred in 

 Tome parts of the country, would have done in 

 twice that time. The cafe is fimilar with the 

 Norfolk hufbandman. Whilft a boy, he is ac- 

 ciiftomed to run by the fide of the hbrfes while 

 they trot with the harrows. When he becomes 

 a plowman, he is accuftbmed to ft'ep out at the 

 rate of three or four miles an hour : and, if he 

 drive ah empty team, he either does it Handing 

 upright in his carriage, with a peculiarity of 

 air, and with a feeming pride and fatisfaclibn, 

 or runs by the fide of his horfes, while they 

 are bowling away at full t: . 



Thus both his body and his mind become 

 adtive : and if he go to mow, reap, or other 

 employment, his habit of activity accompanies 

 him ; and is obvious even in his air, his man- 

 ner and his gait. 



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