“‘Some of my gardeners’ sons, trained on the estate, spend no more when they go away from it. In one of them, named Dickenson, I have always taken a great interest, as he was the first born on the estate, and for a humble working man he has had a glorious career. At sixteen I gave him 16s. a-week for attending to my stove plants. At fourteen he had 10_s._ a-week. When he was eighteen a nobleman’s steward saw him, and offered him 30_s._ a-week to superintended a great stove-house. As I could not give such wages I let him go, but with great reluctance. He wrote to his father that, although he got 30_s._ a-week and many perquisites, yet he limited his expenditure to 8_s._ a-week until they offered to feed him and house him, when he cut down his expenditure to 3_s._ a-week. He could have had the best of meat, but he still preferred the vegetarian diet, and he induced two of the other servants, who were much troubled with indigestion, to become vegetarians. This vegetarian movement in the servants’ hall attracted the notice of the nobleman, who was much pleased to hear of it. By the greater use of vegetables than had been done formerly, especially by the introduction of potato pie, haricot-bean stew, and macaroni as every-day dishes in the servants’ hall, a saving of £500 per annum was effected in the commissariat of the vast establishment; therefore the nobleman was well satisfied, and presented my young Dickenson with a gold watch and chain, value £36, with an inscription, acknowledging his economy and fidelity. Dickenson’s head was not turned by all this, although his wages were soon after raised to £3 per week, and all food found. When the nobleman died, his successor presented Dickenson with £250, accompanied by a flattering letter, and retained him in his service at a salary of £200 a-year, Dickenson still living as he did before. After eighteen years’ service he was pensioned off with £100 per annum, and now has a nursery of his own, and is reputed to be worth between £7,000 and £8,000, although he is not more than forty years of age. He has married lately a most frugal but accomplished governess, who has saved £2,000. She was not a vegetarian when he married her, but is so now. I am as proud of Dickenson as if he was my own son. His sister is a most exemplary vegetarian governess; she has induced no less than eight families, with whom she has lived, to become vegetarians; and from her economy in her dress she has saved, in the course of twenty years of governessing, £400. On her showing me her bank-book I added £100 to it, and said if she saved £1,000 during my lifetime, I would add £500 to it. She is trying hard, and her brother has given her £110 towards it.