Look at that cottage to the right, Mr.Raeburn.It is Jim Hurd's--a man who works mainly on the Church Farm, when he is in work.

But he is deformed, and not so strong as others.

The farmers too seem to be cutting down labour everywhere--of course I don't understand--I am so new to it.

Hurd and his family had an _awful_ winter, last winter--hardly kept body and soul together.

And now he is out of work already--the man at the Church Farm turned him off directly after harvest.