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frequent habit of visiting. In Lent, their 

 chief food is beans, with a little butter 

 and a few onions (if the latter are not 

 too dear), and sour milk curds, with very 

 coarse brown bread, which they eat in 

 large quantities. The ordinary beverage 

 is weak sour cider. At other times of the 

 year they certainly have some boiled beef 

 once a week, but their general food is 

 vegetables. When labourers are employed, 

 they work very hard, and continue at their 

 labour the whole day, with the exception 

 of one hour allowed for dinner. Our far- 

 mers, thank God ! live better, and have 

 more of the enjoyments of human beings, 

 and many of them occasionally indulge in 

 hunting, the only desirable recreation they 

 can enjoy. From this it will appear, that 

 under all circumstances, the English farmer 

 cannot possibly sell his corn at so low a 

 price as the foreigner. 



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