13/30 Another farmer enters--a rather rougher-looking man--and, without saying a word, turns to the advertisement boards on which the posters of farms to be let, &c., are displayed. These he examines with the greatest care, pointing with his forefinger as he slowly reads, and muttering to himself. 'Anything to suit you, sir ?' asks the senior clerk. 'Aw, no; I knows they be too much money,' he replies, and walks out. It is a squire and magistrate. |