A COTTAGE AND GARDEN 
" happy ; and w©uld love them, and the 
"the place where they lived: but now 
" every little nook of land is to be let to 
" the great farmers; and nothing left for 
" the poor, but to go to the parish." 
He has had seven children ; six of whom 
■ , , attained to mature age ; and five 
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his family, are now living, and thriving in 
earnings, the world. His son has a little 
& c - J'arm hear Hemsley Moor : one of 
his daughters is the wife of a joiner at 
York ; another, of the occupier of a little 
farm at Kelfield ; a third, of a labouring 
man, who has a little land of his own, near 
Duffield ; the fourth is the wife of a la- 
bourer, who has built a cottage for himself 
at Tadcaster, and wants nothing (as the fa- 
ther observed) but a bit of ground for a 
garden. JBritton Abbot says he now earns 
12s. «nd sometimes 15*. and 18*. a week, 
by hoeing turnips by the piece; setting 
quick, and other task-work ; " but to be 
" sure, (he added) / have a grand charae- 
»' ■ ter in all this country:' He gets from 
his garden, annually, about 40 bushels of 
potatoes, besides other vegetables ; and his 
fruit, in a good year, is worth from £-3 tp 
£.4 a year. His wife occasionally goes out 
to work ; she also spins at home, andtakes: 
care of his house and his garden. He says, 
they have lived very happy together lor 
forty-five years. — To the account that I 
have given, it may be needless to add, that 
