Other Towns were in similar condition." "The Country people hardly knew such a thing as bread; many had never in their life tasted such a delicacy; few Villages possessed an oven.

A weaving-loom was rare, the spinning-wheel unknown.

The main article of furniture, in this bare scene of squalor, was the Crucifix and vessel of Holy-Water under it [and "POLACK! CATHOLIK!" if a drop of gin be added] .-- The Peasant-Noble [unvoting, inferior kind] was hardly different from the common Peasant: he himself guided his Hook Plough (HACKEN-PFLUG), and clattered with his wooden slippers upon the plankless floor of his hut....

It was a desolate land, without discipline, without law, without a master.

On 9,000 English square miles lived 500,000 souls: not 55 to the square mile." SETS TO WORK.