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be gone through. To enable the men to do 

 this, they had candles fixed in their caps, and 

 worked early and late. Salving is now super- 

 seded — a thing of the past. 



In Cumbria, winter, except unusually severe, 

 is hardly a busy time, for then most of the 

 sheep are brought from the fells and wintered 

 about the farm. It occasionally happens, how- 

 ever, that these are buried deep and have to 

 be dug out, or that trusses of hay have to be 

 carried to the fells. In fact, half the time of 

 the northern farm labourer is taken up in con- 

 nection with the sheep. 



Many of the men of whom I speak are 

 going south as Hinds ; and men from Cumbria 

 are as a rule preferred for such situations, 

 as the advertising columns of the agricultural 

 journals show. They are practical farmers, 

 shrewd, and not afraid of right-down hard 

 work. Whenever they go south, they en- 

 deavour to graze more, and plough less land ; 

 and so follow in the lines in which they were 

 reared. And it is generally admitted that 

 they are successful. Just now many of them 

 are obtaining southern farms which have gone 

 out of cultivation, and some have already 



