W. NORFOLK. 1S5 



The dlfagrceablenefs of boarding ap?.rt (and 

 this might no doubt be avcided), the bufi- 

 nefs of harveft goes off with fingular ala-r 

 crity in Norfolk. Every man turns his 

 hand to any work which is going forward. 

 To whatever requires the quickeft difpatch, 

 whether it be reaping, mowing, cocking or 

 carrying, a farmer can direfl his whole force ; 

 pr fuch part of it as he may judge neccflary : 

 an advantage which cannot be had when reap- 

 ing and mowing are done by the acre ; the 

 reapers, more efpecially, being as ufelefs to a 

 farmer in this refpe^:, as if they were not em- 

 ployed upon his farm. 



What adds effentially to the difpatch, and 

 confequently to the pleafure, of harvefl, is the 

 comparative alertnefs and activity of the Nor- 

 folk harvcftmen ; who, from four in the morn- 

 ing until dark, their meal-times excepted, 

 work, not as for their mafters, but as for them- 

 felves. 



While, however, I thus pay due praife to 

 the laborioufnefs of the Norfolk workmen, 

 truth obliges me .to fay, that in many inflances 

 their work is done in a loofe, and, what in fome 

 j^laccs would be called, a ilovenly manner. 



But 



