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Updated: June 29, 2025
I have a pair of pistols, and as I love you like a brother, will share anything with you; and we will pad the hoof betwixt this and Deptford, and see whether we can meet any fat Kentish hop-grower on his way to the Borough Market with more money than wit a capital plan, any way, seeing that if you fail, the Sheriff will hang you for nothing, and you can keep your penny for drink, or else you can list for a soldier, as many a tall and pretty fellow in the like straits has done before."
The pay for it, when I last heard, was two guineas a week, and pleasant survival from an older mode of employment the prudent hop-grower gives his dryers a pound at Christmas as a sort of retaining-fee. It is to be observed that failure of the crop is too frequent an occurrence. In years when there are no hops, the people feel the want of their extra money all the following winter.
'Trotwood, says Agnes, one day after dinner. 'Who do you think is going to be married tomorrow? Someone you admire. 'Not you, I suppose, Agnes? 'Not me! raising her cheerful face from the music she is copying. 'Do you hear him, Papa? The eldest Miss Larkins. 'To to Captain Bailey? I have just enough power to ask. 'No; to no Captain. To Mr. Chestle, a hop-grower.
In connection with hops, the proverb runs that "hops make or break;" and no hop-grower, writes, Mr. Hazlitt, "will have much difficulty in appreciating this proverbial dictum. An estate has been lost or won in the course of a single season; but the hop is an expensive plant to rear, and a bad year may spoil the entire crop."
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