In England, we have people faring sumptuously while they are getting good wages, and coming on the parish paupers the moment those wages are suspended.

Here, people are never dependent upon any support but their own; but they live, of their own free will, in a style of frugality which a landlord would be hooted at for suggesting to his cottagers.

We pity Hodge, reduced to bacon and greens, and to meat only once a week.

The principal meal of a Guernsey farmer consists of _soupe a la graisse_, which is, being interpreted, cabbage and peas stewed with a little dripping.

This is the daily dinner of men who _own_ perhaps three or four cows, a pig or two, and poultry.
But the produce and the flesh of these creatures they sell in the market, investing their gains in extension of land, or stock, or in "quarters," that is, rent-charges on land, certificates of which are readily bought and sold in the market."[1] [Footnote 1: _Letters and other writings of the late Edward Denison, M.P._, pp.