Excerpt from The English Peasant: Studies; Historical, Local, and Biographic My interest in the subject began with a study of the Reports of the Commission on the Employment of Children, Young Persons, and Women in Agriculture which I took up in order to gain information for some illustrated articles I was planning on the various types of cottages in the different English counties. These Reports soon convinced me that the subject was too serious to be treated in the pretty fashion I intended, and the result was the paper here reprinted and entitled T/ze (foliage Home: of England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.