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putably traceable to the utter want of decent 

 sleeping accommodation among the cottagers ; 

 and the practical result of his exertions was 

 the formation of a society for building addi- 

 tional bedrooms to cottages, so that no cottage 

 should have less than three ; Avhich has already 

 done much good in his district, and well de- 

 serves to be imitated in others. A plan of the 

 least expensive of these cottages is given. 



On the same occasion, whilst as High 

 Sheriff he was awaiting the arrival of the 

 Judges at the railway station, two recruiting 

 parties came in, which, as he learned on in- 

 quiry, had obtained only two recruits in six 

 weeks; and on being asked the reason, 'they 

 replied that '^ the people didn't like soldiering 

 now." This Mr. Smith mentioned to the 

 magistrates, when spending the evening with 

 him, according to custom, and he suggested 

 that the boys in parish- schools should be 

 taught the rudiments of drill by the police, as 

 likely to give them a taste for the army. The 



