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t To this 
rule, however, there were many hon pei gow 
i received the greatest kindness and co 
tion from more than one London ninio 
the river Thame ardens, with its 12s., 
stood, and still stands, on use, th cely 
residence of the Dukes of Northumberland, and a 
far as the owner was concerned it was best 
ruled residence h f th 
comforts of the young me odged in the 
garden arose from the pers imal superintendence of the 
Duches: he labourers we week, and 
uit 
man, a ew 20s. inst of 15s., thanked me, 
showing that even that small favour ma gratefully 
h 
received by the garden drudge. There are plenty of 
an mberland, who reckon 
the labourer worthy o E hire 
All the heavy work of Tonie oe done by un 
skilled sages s, and the same may be said of agri 
culture, of the building trade, and of NRI engineer 
ing. The risk of life and limb in hard ggg 
exposure to cold and wet i 
ps the foundations of 
o 
. Befor ilors combined agai 
oika getting a suit of Sutiy-< a for 40s.; I 
now pay about ponhe T an article of the same value. 
I had almost said with Burns— 
“ Man’s chennai to man,’ 
but rine A of tailors altered the 
The of the drudge, that vi ie just enough 
e 
falls, he may not be able to give 
; i the butcher, with meat now 
€r po 
of his price by 1 telling via that tw 
father sold it fi ae PAEA: “Ay, even the 
chimney sweeper, A formerly would have E 
i l the soot, which sol 
“6d. shel, Fas ; raised his price. Cnovboily. 
T have watched the § t” (for that is the proper 
-by the Grecian chief whe n he haran iper his 
u ‘This narrow spot is all you e to lose o Sa 
ere stand the Freis and ‘there rolls the deep.”’ 
: came the aroa s pay at something ones 2s. 6d. 
a ince, is daily pay, his clothes, lodg- 
k gs, Fer he tt laid up for him a sum of money 
noa to ye a oi a pension for life. As a civilian he 
lay up several hundreds of pounds to 
as his n ; but, althoug] 
ihe drudge inthe 
Royal gardens has no ‘*Chelsea” | 
= ed for him. The carpenter and bricklayer 
= have each a fixed tariff f about 74d. pat ur, and their 
aid not less 
n of every trade has some abe ame wing 
to get under in the way 2 Baers bourer 
aioe ont of a thousand, 
semploye er in old age. 
+‘ the bone} is worthy of 
hi .” Cattle cannot ue kept upon half, or even 
three quarter rides tie amount is well kno own ; a 
yen eep a horse in a 
le condition « certain à payments mi — be made. 
er beyond 
hours and a half’s ake TA me keep of 
man, to do justice to peng well-as to his em- 
pores agate not less is given to his 
roan ence nce pained bythe Uni no 
sna, al the Daus and kain saunot be g 
u k 
said, for it is recorded in ag ee Book that ““ the 
labourer is worthy of his e.” In Birmingham I 
noticed a sign- pedi Saw g done for the hire.” 
That man certainly had hit "ee right nail on the 
head, for the definite article here altered the sense 
it was truly said— 
‘* For gold the sailor ploughs the sea, 
the manor.” 
All other argument is useless. So little is done for 
charity that, by comparison, it is nowhere, if set side 
side with well paid wages, for who ere give 
even half-pay ift ?—but what is there e don 
hat labourers will not dare to do ‘‘ for the hire "?: The 
hn 
we are 
name in ancient and modern weer wever, 
that it is altogether easy to determine hae “this is. 
At least two claimants to the honour are in the field, 
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FIG. 75.—THE CENTAURY, FROM AN ANCIENT MS, 
and it is at any rate probable that neither of them is 
the acts ee by ha Be under this title. netet 
rit ‘‘tooke the name from 
the Centa ah on was ed eviii of the hart ti 
received i e, by one of Hercules his arr 
Selly Glen Ke fee Hercules as his guest, and, 
the ' some was call n ap ai is 
Parkinson’s version of the st story, and he applies both 
Aten and legend to es great Knapw 
Scabiosa). But there is no doubt that the 
of reg old Sarteies was the plant which we still call 
name also in li on 
Herbarium of Apalit, this latter is described as ‘‘ the 
wort which the Greeks called Centaurea major, and 
the Engle Churmell the greater, and which also 
ome men call h-gall;” and its healing pro- 
erties are to in the passage which 
r in whi e wort is.” Erythræa is called 
k 
Who 
ntaurea minor in the same work, and both are 
B ta 6s. 
Centaur, 
” 
they also obtain the name Cent 
The curious figure which we 
the Centaury is from 
at Oxford. It does 
to gather from it the iy intended by the aie 
that when Anacha: 
A French abbé tells rsis wat 
upon Mount Pelion, pa Pg the cave of Chiron 
he Centaur, ere shown plant, the 
leaves of which were aa for the eyes, the sec 
o have been a shrub, so cannot 
3 ries. 
centaur in our pe “represents the imaginary 
orse, half m called by classical 
e meadows of Thessaly, and who drove them before 
them with KEAT pr met day in some parts 
of France the keepers of o are always mounted, 
nd armed with a threespointed goad, This junction 
of man and horse le representation of the two 
rming one body, ea in the figure and i 
classical statuary 
notice of pales plant bes curiously resembles 
the Westie. to abe rear we Bri akady referred, in 
paT, a E e: it is from ‘the 
appears probable 
& Of this ae is said that its ar ke 
h monster w ich men name the 
als 
e > 
any m yora itself, whilom of hue of gold, 
whilom ‘of silve an pa thou Ae take up ie 
wort with its rats that no 
s Trh dé and its might b oed 
h off then 
o will 
carve it, then let sA be averted, fori itis ig peted 
who hath 
track coming on agai 
turneth himself ibt | oF giveth way to him.” B, MÀ 
THE een 
little while ago 
of the Dancteisen 
the of t s 
of in which it was oyed by the writers 
we have inherited many of our modern « 
times anscribing, I 
translating from the nd very curious is it to 
erve how appell ed w 
ly beginning to find its feet, still hold their ancient 
place, often sadly perplexing beginners, an 
accepting the . In the whole compass 
of the classical and medizeval Seal of plants a 
flowers, there is no name so difficult to deal with 
satisfactorily as the present ; all one do is 
collect the and make the best of ge 
The English word “‘ Violet” is, of course, a simple 
contraction of th French Vi ich came in turn 
authors of ancient Rome. | Singular as it may appear, 
this Lati th the Greek zon, a word 
a frequent occurrence in the literat ture of the 
of Homer and Plato. 
the in Asia Minor upon 
a lovely and fertile 
eer e grep ens oe 
c. Established there, in course 
time, a ae enterprising coloni 
ists, 
engrafted n the language of the cP gee 
Rane pecan of their aar geo 
ong with the words "i 
gra i 
which survived, thou in pe itse! 
Spasa en " by fion, or vion, or per i 
was fi a distinct "letter i in thele papens kers occus 
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