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right, he kept two cows. Here he had 
resided very comfortably, as a labourer, 
for nine years, and had six children living, 
and his wife preparing to lie in of a se- 
venth, when an inclosure of Poppleton took 
place ; and the arrangements made in con- 
sequence of it, obliged him to seek for a 
new habitation, and other means of sub- 
sistence for his family. 
He applied to Squire Fairfax, and told 
him that, if he would let him Hebuildshis 
have a little bitoi'ground by the cottage and 
road side, " he would shew him plants his 
the fashions on it." After in- ga^en. 
quiry into his character, he obtained of 
Mr. Fairfax the ground he now occupies ; 
and with a little assistance from the neigh- 
bours, in the carriage of his materials, he 
built his present house ; and planted the 
garden, and the hedge round It, which is a 
single row of quick, thirty-five years old, 
and without a flaw or defect. He says he 
cut it down six times successively when it 
was young. Mr. Fairfax was so much 
pleased with the progress of his work, and 
the extreme neatness of his place, that he 
told him he should be rent free. His an- 
swer deserves to be remembered : " Now, 
" Sir, you have a pleasure in seeing my 
" cottage and garden neat : and why should 
" not other squires have the same pleasure, 
" in seeing the cottages and gardens as nice 
" about them ? The poor would then be 
