CHAPTER XIII.

Favourite Pursuits of English Cottagers and Workmen -- the Genius of the Working Class -- its Effects on the Happiness of that Class -- almost every Man his Hobby -- Pigeon-fanciers, Dog-fanciers, Lovers of Music, Singing, Bellringing, Poaching, Bird-stuffing, Bird-catching -- A Caveat against kidnapping of Nightingales -- Interior of a Bird-catcher’s House -- Anecdote of a Bird catcher -- Angling, its effect on the Spirits -- Lovers of Gardens and Bees -- Anecdote of a Bee-lover and the Abbess of Caverswall -- Florists -- Entomologists -- Crabbe’s Description of some known to him -- Artisan’s Gardens -- Account of 5000 of these at Nottingham -- Happiness to be diffused through the Working-class by sound Legislation 541