10 A COTTAGE AND GARDEN 
" then (I added) a cow could be bought for 
"-£.12 : and you could rent it on the terms 
" of paying down £.3 iOs. immediately; 
" and then £.3 10s. at the end of each year 
" during three years ; and that the cow 
" was to be yours at the end of the three 
'" years, if she lived, and you paid your 
" rent regularly :— Do you think such 
"a bargain would answer for you?'-' — 
Yes, he said, he was sure it would very 
greatly ; and there were few cottagers* to 
whom it would not be a very great advan- 
tage ; especially where they had a family 
of children. I told him to inquire whether 
he could get a little land ; and I would have 
some more talk with him about it, when I 
came down- in August. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
The history of Britton Abbot appears to 
Ceneral ' t€> ment attention. At the 
oKhliJory. time oftheinclosure of Popple- 
ton, when he had six young 
children living, and his wife preparing to 
lie in of a seventh, his whole little system 
of economy and arrangement was at once 
destroyed ; his house, his garden, his little 
field, taken from him ; and all his sources 
■of wealth dried up. With less success in 
his application for the rood of land, the 
spot in which his industry was to be ex- 
