Basket does well if it can bring to the reaper the food of well-kept dogs.

In visiting different farms, I have noticed men and women at their luncheons and dinners in the field.

A hot mutton chop, or a cut of roast-beef, and a hot potato, seem to be a luxury they never think of in the hardest toil of harvest.

Both the meals I have mentioned consist, so far as I have seen, of only two articles of food,--bread and bacon, or bread and cheese.

And this bacon is never warm, but laid upon a slice of bread in a thin, cold layer, instead of butter, both being cut down through with a jack-knife into morsels when eaten.
Such is a habit that devours a lion's share of the English laborer's earnings, and leaves Food, Raiment, and Housing to shift for themselves.