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A Walk from London to John O’Groat’s

CHAPTER XI
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He may empty the Jug into the Basket.

He and his family may consume in solids what they now do in frothy fluids.
They may exchange their scanty dinner of cold bacon and bread for one of roast beef and plum pudding, by substituting cold coffee, cocoa or pure water for strong beer.

Or, if they are content to go on with their old fare of food, they may save the money they expended in ale for the rent of one or two acres of land, for a cow, or for two or three pigs, or deposit it weekly in the Post-Office Savings' Bank, until it shall amount to a sum sufficient to enable them to set up a little independent business of their own.
Here, then, are three great steps indispensable for the elevation of the agricultural laborers of Great Britain to the highest level in society which they can reach and maintain.

Two of these the Government, or the land-owners, or both, must take.

They are Improved Dwellings and Free and Accessible Education.


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