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run from fix to eight pounds ; of womtri 

 three pounds or three guineas. 



The MODE OF TREATMENT OF FARM 



SERVANTS, here^ may be faid to be a 

 judicious mean between the extravagance 

 of the Southern counties, and the oppolite 

 extreme of the Northern provinces. 



III. APPRENTICES. It is a uni- 

 verfal and common pradtice, throughout 

 Devonfliire, and, I believe, the Weil: of 

 England in general, to put out the children 

 of paupers, boys more particularly, at the 

 age of feven or eight years, to farmers and 

 others ; and to bind them, as apprentices, 

 until they be twentyone years of age ; and 

 formerly until they were twentyfour ! 

 on condition of the mailer's finding them 

 with every neceilary, during the term of the 

 apprenticefhip. 



This is an eafy and ready way of dif- 

 pofing of the children of paupers, and is 

 fortunate for the children thus difpofed of; 

 as enuring them to labor and induftry, and 

 providing them with better fuftenance, 



than 



