“‘One cottage is inhabited by my second gardener and his wife, without children. She teaches the boys and girls of the other cottages, and has done so for twenty years. I pay her £30 a-year. She was a trained schoolmistress before she was married. My head gardener is a religious man, and holds divine service in one of my barns, for about 100 persons connected with the estate. It is like a mother’s meeting, children of all ages being present. I am not sorry for this, for the parson of the neighbourhood is a great man for beef and beer, and his influence I dread on my little Arcadia. My head gardener now and then gives a lecture on vegetarianism in school-rooms, and we two have drown up a table suggestive of expenditure for rich and poor. Out of his wages he keeps his father and mother and two maiden aunts, comfortably, at an expenditure of about 7_s._ per week. He is an Aberdeenshire man, and about forty years of age. I hope his eldest son will become an eminent man; and I am paying for his education at one of the universities, on account of his extraordinary ability and fine natural disposition, and also on account of the respect which I feel for his father, who has helped me to carry out my principles on my estate. This man’s parents and aunts live in Aberdeenshire, and have never been on the parish. The laird gives them three rooms over an outhouse at 6_d._ a-week. They spent 2_s._ a-week on oatmeal, and 1_s._ a-week on milk. They grow vegetables enough to make a stew for dinner; a shilling’s-worth of flour gives them a meal of bread in the evening. They eat their bread without butter, but with their vegetable soup, made either of peas or beans; 3_d._ buys what condiments or groceries they require. They are always clean and tidy, and gather what fuel they need from the peat on the moor. The blind aunts are very strong, whereas the father is very feeble. They work the garden and collect the wood, he going with them to lead them on their way. My gardener has drawn up a table how an adult man may supply himself with wholesome food, lodging, and clothing at 7_s._ 6_d._ per week on vegetarian principles. He can get a room unfurnished for 1_s._ a-week; he can get attendance, to a certain extent, for 1_s._ a-week extra; his broad bill need not be more than 1_s._ 6_d._ per week; 1_s._ 6_d._ for green vegetables, including potatoes; 6_d._ for butter or oil; 6_d._ for cocoa, and 6_d._ for groceries; 6_d._ for clothing 6_d._ for washing. So the money is spent.