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breakfast, and hardly would be able to know what had become of it ; 

 "while those that got their ration of oven-bottom baked bread would have 

 enough for breakfast, dinner, and sometimes a little for supper. 



" if good flour in barrels be stored in the same room with barrels of 

 salt, or salted provisions, in warm weather, in three or four weeks the 

 flour will become sour; but if it be then taken into a dry building, 

 where there is no salt or salted stores, the flour will become regenerated, 

 and will make g'lod bread. 



" When the flour is dry and not musty, and a baker wishes to judge 

 of its quality in his own shop, he squeezes a handful of it tight, and if, 

 on opening it, the flour retains the shape of the hand and fingers, it is a 

 sign that it possesses the qualities I have mentioned above. If it crum- 

 ble down on opening the hand, it will not make as much nor as good 

 bread. 



*' When a baker is inspecting flour, not in his own shop, or in the 

 presence of outsiders, he takes a handful carelessly, squeezes it tight, 

 and then throws it back into the barrel ; if the lump keeps its shape, 

 or breaks only into two or three pieces, he will buy it ; if, on the con- 

 trary, it goes into fine powder, he will not have it, because it will not 

 make much or good bread." 



HIGH AND DRY. 



The following account of an act of moral heroism, in behalf of the Bible, is 

 taken from Rev. H. StoiveWs speech at the Anniversary of the British and Foreign 

 Bible Society. He said : 



" There is a beautiful, simple circumstance that occurred in the trans- 

 lation of the Manx Bible, 300 copies of which as I learned from the 

 Eeport, have been forwarded to my native isle, and for which I ofier my 

 thanks to the British and Foreign Bible Society. My Lord, there is a 

 beautiful circumstance connected with the history of the translation of 

 that Bible. There was but a single copy of the translation completed, 

 w'oich was committed to Dr. Kelly, to convey to Whitehaven, that he 

 might get it printed there. He took his passage in a little sloop. It so 

 happened that the sloop got on a sunken rock near the mouth of the 

 Whitehaven harbor, and there went to pieces. Dr. Kelly, regardless of 

 his be in comparison with the precious trust committed to him, held it 

 up in parchment, took it in his hands, and on a portion of the wreck he 



