THE CROCK OF GOLD;

A Rural Novel.

by

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, ESQ., M.A.,

Author of "Proverbial Philosophy."







Hartford:
Silas Andrus and Son.

1851.




CHAPTER I.

THE LABOURER; AND HIS DAWNING DISCONTENT.


ROGER ACTON woke at five. It was a raw March morning, still