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erted, and (in justice to him it must be 
added) with less energy than he possesses, , 
he might have gone with his family into a 
workhouse ; and, from that hour, have be- 
come a burthen to the public, instead of 
beinn; one of its most useful members. — Ob- 
serve for a moment the effects of his well 
directed industry. Without any parochial 
aid, he has raised six of his seven children, 
to a state of maturity ; and has placed them 
out respectably and comfortably in the 
-world - ; Five of them are now living, in the 
middle period of life; and he continues at 
the age of sixty-seven, a good working la- 
bourer; happy in his own industry and 
oood management, in the beauty and com- 
fort of his cottage, and in the extreme fer- 
tility of his garden. 
Britton Abbot possesses a degree of 
energy ancUspirit, that we must The cotta „ er 
not expect to find in every cot- should be en- 
tao er. If, however, the poor do couragcd to 
not exert themselves, . and have «irWe in liis 
, Wi i cottage, 
not so much forethought and 
management as might be wished, the fault 
is less in them, than in the system of our 
poor laws, and in the manner in which they 
are executed. Were they properly and 
universally encouraged to industry and 
economy, we should soon find thriving and 
happy cottagers in every part of the king- 
dom. Let only a tenth of the money, now 
spent in workhouses, in what is; usually 
