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farmhouses were in good order, and the cottages very neat and 

 comfortable in appearance. Many of the cottagers keep bees, which, 

 from the abundance of heath blossom on the neighbouring hills, 

 afford the choicest honey." 



Such is a brief account of the homes and farming of the " Honest 

 Grey Coats of Westmorland " in the beginning of the nineteenth 

 century. 



