LITTLE GADDESDEN. 333 



Aldren och vaxten pa Agrifolium. The age and 

 growth of holly. 



In a newly felled hedge there lay among other trees 

 a somewhat thick holly, Agrifolium Raj. Syn. 466, which 

 at the large end had thirty sap-rings, which [T. I. p. 330] 

 showed that it was thirty years old. The diameter was 

 4£ inches. 



The T\th April, 1748. 

 Manfolkens syslor och plagsed har pa orten. 



Men's duties and habits in this place. 



Men have here to take thought for the heaviest part 

 of the cares of husbandry. They have to do all the work 

 in the arable fields, meadows, in the wood, the lodge, and 

 the lathe, pa aker, ang, i skog, loga, lada. 



The women have also bishop'd the care of the cattle 

 on to them, even to the extent that the carls commonly 

 milk the cows, as has been said before. In short, all out- 

 door work belongs to the men. They have to collect 

 together the wherewithal to feed, nourish, and clothe 

 both themselves and the women, for here the women do 

 not get sore fingers by much spinning, spanad, or arm- 

 ache or back-ache from weaving. It is the part of the 

 Manufacturers to make up for this, and the men's purses 

 are punished in this matter. The men consequently 

 think it no more than reasonable that they should some- 

 times take a little rest. [The Village Inn. J We staid 

 here at the Inn, where the host kept ale and brandy for 

 sale, and into which the men of this village very often 

 came, to pass some hours over some Pint beers (pints of 

 beer). There were seen, sometimes both before and after 

 dinner, a number of labouring men and others killing 

 time in this way. Still, the evenings after six o'clock 



