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No. IV. 



Then banish fii-st, the slattern's rice. 

 Or vain is Martin's good advice. 

 No more with dirt offend my sense, 

 I can't with decency dispense — 

 Be always clean, 'tis done with ease, 

 Yourselves 'twill serve, your patrons please. 

 And know all ye who want good wives. 

 The lazy slattern never thrives. 



Having' concluded my last number with some hints 

 about your garden fences, I shall now address you on 

 the state of your houses, furniture, &c. 



An Irish cabin, if it belongs to a very small holder, 

 or mere labourer, is generally imfit to be seen ; often 

 without a chimney, smoking- horribly of course, and 

 rarely having- more than one very small window, 

 which will not open, with most uneven and cnimb- 

 Hng walls, seldom uniformly dashed and white- washed, 

 except in those places where active and anxious land- 

 lords reside; personally looking to the comforts of 

 their thriving tenantry, and showing what can be done 

 in Ireland. 



In the barony of Forth, the houses are of a iax 

 better description as to size and accommodation, than 

 any other farm houses which I have seen throughout 

 Ireland. But the dark mud walls, though generally 

 well built in that barony, and the havon and dunghills 

 in front, give them a very dirty and disgusting ap- 

 pearance. Now the encouragement which is held to 

 all holders of ten acres and imder, for neat cottages, 

 by the two Farming Societies of this county, is quite 

 sufficient, even if your own comfort was not inti- 

 mately concerned, to induce you to be clean and neat; 

 and yet in the barony of Forth, more especially, there 

 has not hitherto been, I beheve, a single apphcatiou 

 for a cottage premium. Why, one would almost 



