7G NATURE AND WOODCRAFT. 



shown what can be done in this way. They 



pay but little rent, and will doubtless do well 



with their bargains. In short, the Cumbrian 



farm labourer, wherever he appears, literally 



drives his weaker brother out of tbe field, and 



he has already left his mark upon southern 



grass lands. 



This is the man who is the outcome of 



the old 'Statesman, who is now nearly extinct. 



On his native heath he is man instead of 



master, and may be happier for the change. 



His ancestors have been revolutionized out of 



existence. His customs, his clothes, his food, 



his mode of living are changed. As a peasant 



proprietor he has gone to the wall. Many of 



his mountain folk are now included in the pale 



of humanity, which certainly could not have 



been said of them a couple of centuries ago. 



For many of the facts in this chapter the author is in- 

 debted to a tract by a local Antiquarian published in 1847. 



