FIELD WORDS AND WAYS. 1gt 
they did yesterday or the day before, they cannot pos- 
sibly accomplish it. 
Since, however, the farmers have been unable to sell 
their produce and winter wages have gone down, and 
work is scarce, the position of the labourer is a very dull 
one, and it is feared the present winter will be a hard 
time for many homes. Numbers talk of emigrating, 
and some have taken the first step, and will sell their 
furniture and leave a land where neither farmer nor 
labourer has any hope. One middle-aged cottage 
woman, married, kept harping upon the holiday they 
should have during the voyage to America. That 
seemed to her the great beauty of emigration, the great 
temptation. For ten days, while the voyage lasted, she 
would have nothing to do, but could rest! She had 
never had such a holiday in all her lifes How hard 
must be the life which makes such a trifling circumstance 
as a week’s rest appear so heavenly ! 
