As one of them said to me to-day, "The farmers will work a man just as long as they can't help it, and then they throw him away." I asked if there were no regular farm-labourers hired at fixed rates by the year?
"Oh! very few--less now than ever; and there'll be fewer before there'll be more.

The farmers don't want to pay the labourers or to pay the landlords; they want the land and the work for nothing, sir,--they do indeed!" "What does a farm-hand get," I asked, "if he is hired for a long time ?" "Well, permanent men, they'll get 6s.

a week with breakfast and dinner, or 7s.

maybe, with one meal; and a servant-boy, sir, he'll get 2s.

a week or may be 3s.