Every cottager in the hamlet knows somebody in the town; the girls go there to service, the boys to get employment.

The little village shops obtain their goods from thence.

All the produce--wheat, barley, oats, hay, cattle, and sheep--is sent into the capital to the various markets held there.

The very ideas held in the villages by the inhabitants come from Fleeceborough; the local papers published there are sold all round, and supply them with news, arguments, and the politics of the little kingdom.

The farmers look to Fleeceborough just as much or more.