The Marches of Wessex a Chronicle of England

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The Marches of Wessex a Chronicle of England
F J Harvey Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton
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What happened was that without his pig or cow or fowls on the common pastm-e the peasant had got to work solely for a wage — a wage not likely to be made unduly high. Prices rose steadily, and the growth of the larger industrial THE SKQrESTERKD VALE 273 centres, with their now machinery, killed tlio little local trades like weaving, baize-making, button-making, in \\ hich Dorset at least had been rich.
The wage-earning farm labourer ... I know one alive now, a man of sixty or so, capable of beg
...etting a strong progeny, who, on the estate of a good Doi-set landlord, has never been able to afford to marry : he had to maintain his parents : and he is not a bad character ; on the contrary, his landlord respects him and aids him by gifts of comfort — of comfort to a single man — and of a friendly intercourse which is wholly admirable. A century and a quarter ago, in words which later he revised slightly so as to leave out the local application, Wordsworth (of all men — he who uttered nothmg base !) told a little of the truth about the Dorset poor : " Auld fJoody Blake was old and poor, 111 fed she was, and thinly tlad ; And any man who ijas.

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