‘All the domestic business will be taken from my wife’s hands, I shall shall make the tea, comb the dogs, and dress the children myself.’—Fribble, in _Miss in her Teens_ (Garrick). Footnote 29: Mrs. Young was sister to Fanny Burney’s stepmother. The marriage proved unhappy from the beginning. Footnote 30: See his work, _Les Intérêts de la France mal entendus_, Henri, Comte de Boulainvilliers, voluminous author on French history, 1658-1722. Footnote 31: Rev. W. Harte, poet, writer on rural affairs, historian, 1700-1774. Dr. Johnson much commended Harte as a scholar and a man of the most companionable talents he had ever known. He said the defects in his history (Gustavus Adolphus) arose not from imbecility, but from foppery. His _Essays on Husbandry_ is an elegant, erudite, and valuable work (Lowndes). Footnote 32: The accompanying letter is included in Arthur Young’s correspondence of this year, and is given, although not addressed to himself. Footnote 33: Duhamel du Monceau, botanist and _agronome_, contributor to the _Encyclopédie_, 1700-1781. Footnote 34: Patulle. A French writer on agriculture. Footnote 35: Here is an illustration. The Suffolk husbandman’s afternoon collation is invariably called ‘beaver.’ In Nares’ _Glossary_ we find, ‘Bever, from the Sp. and It.: an intermediate refreshment between breakfast and dinner.’ ‘Without any prejudice to their bevers, drinkings, and suppers.’—_B. and Fletcher, ‘The Woman Hater.’_ Footnote 36: ‘A child’s game, in which pins are pushed alternately.’—_Webster._ Footnote 37: Included in _A Farmer’s Letters_. ----- CHAPTER III IN SEARCH OF A LIVING, 1767-1775 Home travels—A move—Anecdote of a cat—Disillusion—‘A Farmer’s Letters’—Another move—‘In the full blaze of her beauty’—Hetty Burney and her harpsichord—‘Scant in servants’—Maternal solicitude—Money difficulties—More tours—Lord Sheffield—Howard the philanthropist—Correspondence.