66 ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. 



the village street, " tlie labourers would ride in the gigs and 

 the farmers in the tumbrils," a prophecy which has not yet 

 been realised ! There is no doubt that union speakers 

 generated many an illusion. There was a pathetic hope 

 amongst these locked-out labourers that an Act of Old 

 Age Pensions would soon be passed and that the land 

 would shortly be theirs. They had to wait thirty-four 

 years before they were given an old age pension, or the 

 opportunity to enter upon a statutory Small Holding. 



