Excerpt from The Farm Labourer: The History of a Modern Problem
"An' I mean as the King 'ull put a stop to 't, for them say it as knows it, as there's to be a Rinform." So said Dagley, a tiller of the soil in the early half of the last century. He knew that all was not well with himself and his fellows, but was as incapable of laying his finger on the cause of their wretchedness and discontent as he was of prescribing the remedy. But "there's them i' Middlemarch knows what the Rinform is," he added. This was hopeful indeed, for a remedy for the labourer's case had been a crying need for a hundred years. But Dagley had drunk his pot of beer, and was unduly optimistic. Far from there being a reform, the evils from which he and his kind suffered were allowed to drag on down to our own day.
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