NEAR TADC ASTER. 
neither he, nor any part of his family, has 
ever had occasion to apply for parochial 
relief. 
Though my visit was unexpected, and 
he at the latter end of his Satur- Hi s appear- 
day's work, his clothes were neat ance, health, 
and sufficiently clean: his coun- &c - &c - &c - 
tenance was healthy and open; he was a. 
little lame in one leg, the consequence of 
exposure to wet and weather. He said he 
had always worked hard and .well ; hut he 
would not deny but that he had loved a 
mug of good ale when he could get it. 
When I told him my object in inquiring 
after him, that it was in order that other 
poor persons might have cottages and gar- 
dens as neat as his, and that he must tell 
me all his secret — how it was to , be done ; : 
he seemed extremely pleased,, and very 
much. affected ; he said,, " nothing would 
" make poor folks more happy, than find- - 
" ing that great folks thought of them" that 
he wished every poor man had as comfort- 
able a home as. his own; not. but that he. 
believed there might be a few thriftless j 'el- - 
lorn, who would not do good in it, 
I. asked him whether, he had not a cow. 
He said he had had one, and she 
had died ; and having no other g^oW. 
place but the lane to keep his 
cow, he had not attempted to get another. 
— " Gould you get land, if you had a cow Ts 
—He thought he could.---" Supposing. 
