OCR Text |
Show Strange English Titles. In some parts of England tithes are frequently paid in articles instead of money. This is especially the case in some country parishes in the north, where the people are mostly small peasant farmers. A vicar of the writer's writ-er's acquaintance is usually paid his tithes in the form of sacks of apples, potatoes and s,vede turnips, butter, poultry, etc. In one case a peasant farmer offered to pay off his tithes by working in the rector's garden for twelve months in the evenings, and his wife undertook to bake all the bread for every week's supply, and do all the cleaning and scrubbing required. |