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and, if the weather be fuch that this docs not 

 afford them full employment^ they confidcr 

 themfelves as having, from ancient cuflom, a 

 right to refufe to do eyery other kind cf work. 

 It is, I am forry that truth obliges me to 

 relate it, no unufual thing for parities of 

 them to be playing at cards in a barn, while 

 the turnep-crop is receiving irreparable in- 

 jury for want of their alTiftance ; a crime, io 

 this country, which both mafter and men ought 

 to be equally ailiamed of : and it certainly 

 would be worth the farmer's while to give their 

 men an advance of harveft-wages, rather thaa 

 to fuffer fo difgraceful a pradice. Vv'^erc it not 

 for the manufacturers and other handicraft- 

 men, the later-fown crops of turneps would 

 fuffer greatly during harveil. Some years, it 

 is true, harveft-men have little leifure for tur- 

 nep-hoeing-; but, in .others, they have a great 

 deal ; and, in every year, a flrong morning dew, 

 or a flying Ihower at the time of carrying, afford 

 apt opportunities for this neceffary operation. 



The pradice of trotting with empty carri- 

 ages has already been noticed : it is on no occa- 

 sion more valuable than in harvefl; and a cuf- 

 tom among farmers of driving their own har- 

 veft-carriages is not lefs excellent. 



Loofe 



