94 RECORDS OF OLD TIMES 



hounds, or keep a horse for the purpose. Those 

 who use these arguments are ignorant of the fact 

 that it is absolutely necessary that a horse be kept 

 for ordinary business purposes, and it may just as 

 well be a good one, that can be ridden with hounds 

 and driven to market, so as to take the chance of 

 selling him to advantage, as to be only of value to 

 go to plough, or grind corn, and turn the horse-churn. 

 It has been said also that the farmer's daughters 

 have no right to go to boarding school, and play 

 the piano, or to acquire other modern accomplish- 

 ments. Surely they have as much right to do this 

 as the daughters of the butcher or the baker, who 

 purchase the produce of the farm and supply the 

 household afterwards. When the whole nation is 

 being educated and taught all the ' ologies,' it would 

 be a sad reproach to the farmer who had from two 

 to three thousand pounds employed in his business, 

 if his sons and daughters could not hold their own 

 with others. 



