382 Different Plans of improving the Bk. iv. 



" Every one admits the system to be good, but 

 " the question is how to enforce it." 



I was by no means aware that the excellence of 

 the system had been so generally admitted. For 

 myself I strongly protest against being included 

 in the general term of every one, as I should con- 

 sider the adoption of this system as the most cruel 

 and fatal blow to the happiness of the lower classes 

 of people in this country that they had ever re- 

 ceived. 



Mr. Young, however, goes on to say, that " The 

 " magnitude of the object should make us disre- 

 " gard any difficulties, but such as are insupera- 

 " ble: none such would probably occur, if some- 

 " thing like the following means were resorted to. 



" I. Where there are common pastures, to give 

 " to a labouring man having children, a right 



" to demand an allotment proportioned to the 

 " family, to be set out by the parish officers, &c., 

 " * * * and a cow bought. Such labourer to 

 " have both for life, paying 40.y. a year till the 

 " price of the cow, &c. was reimbursed : at his 

 " death to go to the labourer having the most nu- 

 " merous family, for life, paying shillings a 

 .** week to the widow of his predecessor." 



" II. Labourers thus demanding allotments by 

 " reason of their families to have land assigned 

 " and cows bought, till the proportion so allotted 

 " amounts to one of the extent of the common. 



" III. In parishes where there are no commons, 

 " and the quality of the land adequate, every 

 " cottager having children, to whose cottage 



