t> E R R Y. 



Brought over 

 'JThe boy of twelve or fourteen, three-pence 



halfpenny a day - 



Two pigs, one eat, the other fold for - 



Two calves, one ?os. one ios, - 



N. B. Chickens and ducks pay for fait, foap and candles, 

 gnd they eat the geefe, 



When my informant, who was a poor man, 

 had finifhed, I demanded how the aos. defici- 

 ency, with whifky, and the prieft, were to be 

 paid -, the anfwer was, that he muft not eat his 

 geefe and pig, or elfe not drefefo well, which pro- 

 bably is the cafe. Their acre of garden feeds 

 them the year through j nine months on po- 

 tatoes, and the other three on oaten bread, 

 from their own oats. The confumption of 

 potatoes not increafed in twenty years. A fa- 

 mily of five perfons will eat and wafte forty-two 

 {lone of potatoes in a week. They are not ad- 

 dicted in any remarkable degree to thieving. 

 The cottars of a farm might eafily be taken 

 from it, and yet the farm let without difficul- 

 ty, for the tenant would foon have others ; 

 but it is questioned whether they could eafily 

 be made farmers of. 



Dancing is very general among the poor 

 people, almoft univerfal in every cabbin. 

 Dancing-mailers of their own rank travel 

 through the country front cabbin to cabbin, 

 with a piper or blind ridler , and the pay is fix- 

 pence a quarter. It is an abfolute fyftem of 



education. 



