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sensibilities and efforts for the elevation of the 

 ploughers, sowers, reapers and mowers who enrich 

 and beautify this favored land with their patient and 

 poorly-paid labor. And there is no doubt that these 

 newly-awakened sentiments and benevolent activities 

 will carry the day; replacing the present tenements 

 of the agricultural laborers with comfortable, well- 

 built cottages, fitted for the homes of intelligent and 

 virtuous families. This work has commenced in 

 different sections under favorable auspices. Build- 

 ings have been erected on an estate here and there 

 which will be likely to serve as models for whole 

 hamlets of new tenements. From what I have heard, 

 I should think that Lord Overstone, of the great bank- 

 ing house of the Lloyds, has produced the best models 

 for cottage homes, on his estates in Northamptonshire. 

 Although built after the most modern and improved 

 plan, and capacious enough to accommodate a con- 

 siderable family very comfortably, almost elegantly, 

 the yearly rent is only 3, or less than fifteen dollars ! 

 Now with a three-pound cottage, having a parlor, 

 kitchen, bedroom and buttery on the lower floor, and 

 an equal number of apartments on the upper; with a 

 forty-rod garden to grow his vegetables, and with a 

 free school for his children at easy walking distance, 

 the agricultural laborer in England will be placed as far 



