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leaft dlfguft, they quit their fervice, and try 

 another. No bribes can tempt them to any 

 induftry after the firft performance of their 

 ftated work, which leaves them half the day 

 for idlenefs, or rioting at the alehoufe. 



^r.Danby partaking of thefe inconve- 

 niences in common with his neighbours, 

 ftruck upon a remedy which fufficiently 

 difplays his knowledge of human nature. 

 " If," faid he, " I can give thefe fel- 

 lows a better notion of a local property and 

 happinefs, I fhall gain a power over them, 

 which I can eafily turn to their good, and 

 the benefit of their families, as well as to 

 my own convenience." — He executed the 

 thought, and it has fucceeded to admiration. 



Obferving fome of the men (that had a 

 little induftry in them,) to cultivate their 

 gardens better than their comrades, he made 

 them an offer of inclofmg from the moor a 

 field for each, contiguous to their gardens, 

 that they might raife their own corn inftead 

 of buying it. Which was accordingly done, 

 and 370 additional rent taken for it. 



Two or three tolerable examples had 

 great eff'eds ; By degrees, others applied 

 for the fame favour, which was always 

 readily granted ; and, in the courfe of fome 

 years, very few of the cottages remained 

 vrithour a field adjoining. The hufbandry 

 m them was nothing very accurate, but it 

 wri'; of great fervice to the families, and it 



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