198 THE DIVISION OF LABOUR 



labourer and the village servant inevitably blend one 

 into the other, because the village drudge must at all 

 times have been ready to do the extra jobs, for which 

 he got direct payment ; and, in the press of harvest 

 work, it must always have been the interest of a culti- 

 vator with a good crop to make small direct payments 

 to get it garnered. But these payments were looked 

 upon as subsidiary and accidental additions to his 

 regular salary, if so grandiose a term may be applied 

 to the humble perquisites which the lowly chamar 

 inherited. The artisan, the casual labourer, and the 

 village servants are all placed in the same category, 

 because they are all looked upon as employed by the 

 village, and they are for that reason all included here 

 in the same chapter. 



