Theodore Hook’s hero, Jack Bragg, boasted of his “little place in Surrey.” The Guardians of the Guiltcross poor have good reason to be proud of _their_ little place in Norfolk. When the Guiltcross Union was formed, Mr. Thomas Rackham, master of the “house,” set aside a small estate for the purpose of teaching the Workhouse children how to cultivate land. This pauper’s patrimony consisted of exactly one acre one rood and thirty-five poles of very rough “country.” A certain number of the boys worked upon it so diligently, that it was soon found expedient to enlarge the domain, by joining to it three acres of “hills and holes,” which in that state were quite useless for agricultural purposes. Two dozen spades were purchased at the outset to commence digging the land with, and six wheel-barrows were made by a pauper, who was a wheelwright; pickaxes and other tools were also fashioned with the assistance of the porter, who was a blacksmith. By means of these tools, and the labour of some fourteen sturdy boys, the whole of this barren territory was levelled, the top sward being carefully kept uppermost. We copy these and the other details from Mr. Rackham’s report to the Guardians, for the information and encouragement of other Workhouse masters, who may have the will and the power to “go and do likewise.” It appears then, that by the autumn of 1846 one acre of the new land was planted with wheat, and two roods twenty three poles of the home land—the one acre one rood and thirty-five poles mentioned above—was also planted with wheat, making in all one acre two roods and twenty three poles under wheat for 1847. This land produced eighteen coombs three pecks beyond a sufficient quantity reserved for seed for the wheat crop of 1848. The remainder of the land was planted with Scotch kale, cabbages, potatoes, &c., &c., which began coming into use in March, 1847. The entire domain is now under fruitful cultivation.