VILLAGES 



labourer or a clergyman ; but we want to find 

 someone to fulfil each worthy occupation of life, 

 and to make the village as far as possible self- 

 supporting. 



Let us try to count up the different people 

 we might hope to find in our village. We 

 should want a clergyman for the church, a 

 schoolmaster or mistress for the school, and 

 perhaps a doctor. The landowner should live 

 near his village, share the life of the inhabitants, 

 and see that the land, the houses, and the 

 cottages are all well cared for. Next would come 

 farmers to grow the corn and meat, labourers to 

 cultivate the soil, shepherds to attend to the 

 sheep, milkmen and maids to milk the cows and 

 make the butter and cheese. We should require 

 a shoemaker or cobbler, a smith to make and 

 mend our carts and shoe our horses, a carpenter 

 and a mason to build and repair our houses, a 

 postman to carry our letters, and perhaps it would 

 be as well to have a policeman to keep our boys 

 out of mischief and warn away undesirable 

 people. We might add to these a brewer to 

 brew good wholesome ale, and an honest inn- 

 keeper to refresh the wayfarers and to welcome 

 the strangers who chance to come to our village. 

 We now have our little community fairly 

 complete. 



In old days there were many other industries 

 besides the ones we have just mentioned ; such, 

 for example, were spinning and weaving, bas- 



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