SO A COTTAGE AND 6ARDEN 
lize, and keep down, the price of labour, 
now much enhanced by the disposition to 
wander about, in quest of the highest wages 
and the easiest work ; a disposition which 
has occasioned a considerable waste in the t 
produce of national labour. But this would 
not be all. Freehold cottages and gardens, 
do not only attach the owners to their 
country, but are also the surest pledges 
and securities for their conduct. The cot- 
tager, who has property, is habituated to 
set a higher value on .himself and on his 
character, and seems to be of a superior 
order of men. Besides this, the addition, K. 
which these little freeholds might make to 
the industry, morals, and produce of a 
country,* would be an object of considerav 
tion in this respect ; that the cottager, who 
has a garden and a little property of his 
own, has always before him a pleasurable 
object of industry for his leisure time: 
whereas, he who has none, is driven to the 
ale-house by the same unhappy necessity, 
that impels idle young men to the gaming 
table, — the want of occupation. 
In the mode which I suggested to Britton 
Abbot, of his renting the cow, he would 
* Productive gardens to cottages would, by the in- 
creased consumption of vegetables, make- a considerable 
saving in bread corn ; the same observation may be 
applied to cottager's cows Of butter, eggs, and poul- 
try, our markets might have a regular and cheap supply 
from cottagers. 
