PERSEVERE AND PROSPER.

employing five hundred hoppers that year,
and that two hundred of these were chil-
dren. They thought that number must
materially diminish the number of sufferers
in the London air, during that warm
weather, which was so delightful there, on
the hill side at Fairdown.

While Mr. and Mrs. D’Eyncourt and her
brother, were making friends among the
poor pickers, the rest of the “gentry,” as
these latter called them, were stripping the
fragrant hops from the wreaths, with busy
fingers, all except Mr. Chester, Walter, Tom,
and Frederick, who were obliged to superin-
tend the pickers in other gardens on the
farm, and walked or rode about from one to
the other.

In all justice, I must say that Fanny and
Martha’s bin yielded the most hops every
day, for Julia was first-rate; Harry and
Mimmie were tolerably steady pickers, and
Mr. Clavering turned out a better picker
than was expected. Though he would
occasionally forget all about his business,

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