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 I fuppofe a labourer to earn the average 

 of the three feafons ; his wife to work her 

 harvelt, and hay- time, as long as the huf- 

 band ; and to be employed fix weeks every 

 winter at the price of the neighbourhood ; 

 one of his fons to be a firft man ; another 

 a fecond ; and a third a lad in fervice : A 

 daughter a dairy-maid; and another a 

 common-maid ; all at the refpective prices, 

 but exclufive of the board of all fer- 

 vants. Now this is by no means a repre- 

 fentation of real families, becaufe pro- 

 bably but few are fo difpofed of; but it 

 will unite in one view the earnings of 

 all kinds ; and mew, in a fingle fum, 

 the total of each kind of labour, in a 

 juft proportion to the quantity of each. 

 And for a comparifon between labour 

 and provifions, I fhall, at the fame time, 

 give the average of all provifions ; that is, 

 bread, butter, cheefe, and meat; but left 

 fuch a medium mould not be fatisfaclory 

 to my readers (as the articles are not 

 of equal importance to the poor) I fhall, 

 at the fame time, add them diftinclly, 

 that ufe may be made of either, accord- 

 ing to the judgments of different per- 

 fons. In thofe places where the pre- 

 ceding tables are incomplete, I mail, fup- 

 ply them proportionally to the parts that 



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