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Rh woman one cow, with land to keep them on. They have each of them gardens. With this benefit, and that of his labour, the day labourer has bred up ten children, two of which are put out to service; and he is now maintaining himself, his wife, and his other eight children, without any call for parochial relief. The old people cannot make any thing of their labour; but yet with the benefit of their cow and garden, and the exertions which these call forth, and with a little occasional assistance that the old man and his wife receive from their son, and which the other old woman as from her younger neighbours, they appear to enjoy much more comfort than old age, in general, possesses. They all assured me that, but for the cow and the garden, they could not have subsisted without parochial relief.

I have selected these three examples from many similar ones there, in the same