ts you, the e attitude of 
ma, that m 
tokened is that iai, 
of 
mr sh our to urge 
know not —— 5 i employers of 8 pore 
felt this sort of as I hav 
t I suspect so ; for every man is (at 
only the unit of a class. 
e e 
out 
aake npon, aye and even of those who visit, it. And 
this has been m p grievance, and one which 
Time, . the *smooth-handed god” not 
Pe bor ar 
pe 2 at my d 
ps, mourned over my obliterated hed gerows, 
—— up noses at one Tank, listened wi 
mysterious ” 
THE . Gata eee 
is germina’ 
starts, | little think, and will fruetify when you ale expect, and | 
of. when 
7 even befel you 
a 
ne. Farmers, and the 
g ase 
who derided 7 “improvements? 
eep drains, my gru 
th mock-gravity | y 
| 3 r 
[APRIL 13, 
if it have any vitality in it, it where you 
with a produce t rig ay aed And 
you come again e!’ do not be 
surprised if shouts of . inughter greet you than 
announcement o 
I had time a ‘ink all fis : gm y guest, like a wants s 
shrewd bargainer, às he was, gave a = “ting to the 
ral discourse b Fabre he came to bus In fact —his cle 
i . he is 3 only 8 
sub · eu 
pet 
„ 0 . im a prophe 
can’ 
Day and Night! He has the better right to Ma 80 of us = 
8 as for this price-of-corn — 
r. G crop—trust 2 
sir,— 
added 5 ien g his 3 a aes 
sideways, slapping his peers on his knees, and facing grain 
e, like a GP 1 refreshed : “for it’s my notion we never ure has her 
shail a again Kas — in 
“And dsa 
“ Why the poet "ll be ruined, and the land I mE 
out of cultivation.” | 
« And the Landlo gees 125 
„Will follow, of c They depend upon the 
Fania on the land.” 
17 1 — che land on the price of Wheat ? 15 
crop, knowing the cost, or the that 
comes to ‘aks one, 8 nothing! —him that none 
to sow before he reaps, or that comes to reap 
before he sows? Do you remember what I said about 
« “Tell me — Greening, have rents risen or fallen 2 Grace before pot sis 
since the ie 
Risen, ainl ; and too mnch, to my thinkin 
“ And an per Wheat has been falling : . 
1 or aay! shillings a are to forty or pid dees 
ked this morning. Rents rising, and pri 
“Ves, yes! I remember it, I’ve thought of it too, 
an 1 never id i — that way ’xactly before.—I see 
ng, n aay nt—about the — What was 
te 
and the farmer’s business getting worse every 
Tien 't like what it used to be.“ 
“ Just so ! and competition keeping up the rents not- 
* Aye? — mage 
And what is it after 
It be ge use to ‘oe ou. I'm 
afterwards. Whieh farm pays the bestrent, even now, 
one where we © highest was promised—or the other 3 25 
— 
offeri 
sermons 
texts, that I ae” Bo A 1 iapH 
re me, to ow 
u h N a Fa 
han hy Hundred — come 8 after . m> a i paok- 
oa ee 
done befo; 
for a Tittle We laid by in 
wi ich I commend again to all beginners 
1 171 N 
ind,“ says an old — “like the body, 
fore i it — The hungry dog 
bites your 1 gpa your 3 : but the food 
becomes fi and the want is 3 the 
And so I have found it: 
and so, no doubt, have 
3 ago „when you 
came— u feel on uf ie ‘pain of rapping 
out, oak pris Er amazement, 
our breath! an He cannot 
again 
idle ‘wonder, aye of contempt, 
your fanciful, ideal, theoretic’ notions : and twice 
—— hence, when your idea has tiken root 
ppe 
uman pioneership, 
the road, like milestones, 
It is very fine, no tech, te connect one’s own small- 
seale impr e. after this fashion, with the history 
of the Great and the Dead, to whom life was one con- 
on and contempt—a history the most 
the m 
important 
ut eate mr the valye of a 
e 
that 
ive na over ia head of the fair tenan t,— 
a 
you | plenty of 
monument of human folly, dotting to the be, 
a high re nt, a and n 
team o horses — * own, 
8 t in what do th ph Crop 
bear a sien sell all off for a few 
oo and the ee 
Mr. Greening d in his lips and shook his head. 
“ Let the ‘Landlords a 9 that. aint all gold that 
litters. 
Fa “ True: r those that ea'nt ar a pure 
currency were re the Laaer Eee 
„ There Il be less of it —, ” said Mr. 
reening, “ if it enti to t pe B t aint all. 
a s them Clay Siles. We haven't done with them 
ie out 
give em at What’s 
rowing Turnips ? W s not their sort 
ote 
5 We baven't begun with 'em! 
‘ Afte r breakfast sit awhile, — 
And they outbid the honest cultivator, and the of breath. 
skilful one: in fact they can afford to do 8 because Pen i 
can afford to rob : just as though a man offered you a 
higher 1 for your house, meaning i. sell off the 
ure? 
ur d 
white, and every one with a different pig for every 
furnit man 
month of the year ! that can tell what is to 
e’s the ‘coming man,’ I muppets said Mr. 
Greening, laughing, and beginning to pull on his great 
coat; 5 e must be able to mix Fire and Water first, I’m 
p? 
better it . —the 
kind of ‘farmi ee the 
oa make Steam ?”—said the other. 
t Greening turned short round at ‘the ore 
to the door, and looked a mo 9 
Bo smiled: but 
there w. 
And they walked out b together. 
greater the — — ts ba as are 1 — 
the injury don the hon 
rop by santa 
— 3 of rakin 
and diminishing erops wit ————— 
ur likin THE CONDITION OF THE LABOURER ON THE 
UKE OF en e ESTATE, HUNTLY, 
EE 
BE 
Tune condition of e 2 ha N in this part of 
food is prepared 
la e ignorant landlord, “the foolish 
tenant, and the defra aded lab 
reening looked thong — 
something i in that, perhaps ; but how 
How’ — sort o — 
Now it was the o 
. 
e 
& Well—there’s | 
c 
Gu. anner not have it at any price as 
of two syllables) I could not help — 7 
myself with thinking of time when he used ke 
every imaginable Merson at me for- “ge ‘he saw- 
a wheel-barr “gi 
‘alt 
down on 3 part, made my chronicle 
My dee 
P; my “gest ‘fields no ingest . to? big for 
Bat G mpro 
haga 
t | premium ie 
Tak 
poe t 
a whole heap of good sayin gs which, 5 duly note noted 
t date 
buried, bug it the pate may sleep th 
; epelen 
poor Greening, and | 
grow ied out Now look at 
1 is in the 5 abundant, though it is im 
on’t in I’ll tell you.—By 
can continue ess a change of prices takes prear 
The high fato Ii and 123. a-week for men, and 
S 
They ’ll starve you if — don't starve Ae a 
food—their 0 only 
8 disproportionate value of rtp grain. Hun 
Bavusie!” quoth farmer 
way ! 
Their 
— —— of res N . as — ows: 
. On peer 8 asd i 4 100 
:. On drainage. 6,400 
4. On miscellaneous improvements, su such 
oads 8 8 N 
— 
18, 18,550 
thought o that | p n Lew. 8 at last, as if ae . 3,000 
„Kill o ‘kill first an 
t 
him sel 2 But 5. On plantations 
221,950 
drainage 
— tiin.tie aid in enclosing is Such 
thee 
cure 
« Kill the proud fi 
as N th be far 
40, 000, by far 2 greater proportion of which has been 
expended dir direc n labour, 50007 
These —— are over — abo eee yen in in this 
Abundance very true then w 
then! for good and bad to 
Lion,’ we shall sa 
a2 all; 
it’s bad wesie for — they country, where the 
cases even where the size is very |i 
