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Am. Absolutely no other. 



Q. Whether Mr. Ellis gets annually from his arable 

 a more abundant harvest, skord, than the other 

 farmers ? 



Am. Never more than others ; for if he gets more one 

 time, they get more another. 



Q. Whether Mr. Ellis uses to plough, kora, and treat 

 his arable in any other way than the other farmers in the 

 place ? 



Am. Never; but entirely in the same way. 



Q. Has he a large number of sheep ? 



Am. No more than the other farmers, but rather 

 less. 



Q. Has he a large number of cows ? 



Am. Two individuals ; for in the whole of Little 

 Gaddesden there are hardly twenty cows in all. 



Q. Has he a large number of work-people, tjenste- 

 folk ? 



Am. One girl and a boy, besides his son and daughter; 

 for in this place it is the custom that a farmer does not 

 keep many servants, but always employs day-labourers, 

 dagsverks-folk, for which reason in every village there 

 live a great many poor, who hire themselves out to work 

 for pence. 



They gave here eight to ten pence a day to one carl, 

 who for that is obliged to work from 6 o'clock in the 

 morning till 6 in the evening. This character they said 

 they were obliged [T. I. p. 192] to give Ellis : that he 

 never let any of the labouring folk wait for their money, 

 as is otherwise very common, but he gives them each 

 evening their day's money, sin dags-penning. In the 

 same way he pays down, straxt, those who make any- 

 thing for him. 



The farmers maintained that Mr. Ellis's principal 

 occupation consists in writing books, and selling to gentle- 



