1 Many of the cottagers in the neighbourhood keep one or more of these quaint pets.

2 Typically they were smallholders or cottagers, village craftsmen and superior servants.

3 A cottager and his wife had a Hen, which laid every day a golden egg.

4 There were besides , the Cottager and his wife, and three young sturdy children, brown as berries.

5 In pastoral Suffolk fewer than half this class were dependent on wages, presumably younger men who were not yet cottagers.

6 Butter and cheese were made on practically every farm and even the cottager killed and salted his own bacon.

7 The county was characterised instead by numerous small farmers and cottagers.

8 Whether the passage is a direct reference to enclosure or, more probably, to disagreements among cottagers, is not certain.

9 Legislation may therefore have done relatively little to help tied cottagers or to improve low cost agricultural housing.

10 They set up the pageant in a village street, and not one cottager came out to greet them.