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harrow it under. There were commonly three or four 

 harrows bound -together abreast in the manner before 

 described [p. 193 orig.], and a horse for every harrow, so 

 that they all drew abreast. One single little boy drove 

 all three horses and harrows, so that for three or more 

 harrows bound together, and the same number of horses, 

 there was only required a little boy. 



[T. I. p. 274.J Stora aker-stycken sadda med 



Bonor. Large ploughed plots sown with beans. 



The arable fields which lay immediately north of 

 Ivinghoe, which were very low-lying and wet, were almost 

 entirely sown with such kinds of beans as they here call 

 horse-beans.* It is with them that horses and swine are 

 fed the greater part of the year, but to sheep and cows 

 they are not commonly given. 



Tjenlig mark til Par-bete. 



Land suitable for sheep-pasture. 

 One and all whom I asked about it truly told me 

 that the fields and arable, falten OCh akrama, here 

 about Ivinghoe are not good for sheep-pasture, because 

 they are wet and low-lying, for when rainy summers 

 happen the sheep here commonly get the rot, R6t- 

 sjukan, and dropsy, and often die off in large numbers. 

 On the contrary, they consider all Chiltum land, that is 

 the districts lying on the hills, or the chalk-formation, as 

 the most suitable of all and most wholesome for sheep, 

 and there they thrive the best of all, all of which a long 

 experience has shown to be true. 



Kalk af ordinair flinta. Lime from ordinary flint. 



Several people in Ivinghoe related that those who 

 dwell 20 miles from thencef burn their lime from the 



* They are still called so, 1886. [J. L.] 



f The folk say that this was probably near Leighton Buzzard. [J. L.] 



