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the above quotation from the Book of Job ; and 



the ear, when the corn is in its milky state, they 

 call a green ear. They roast it, too, just as the 

 Israelites did in the days of Moses. 



24. So completely is the word corn confined to 

 the fruit of this plant, in America, that the people 

 do not understand you to mean any thing but Indian 

 Corn, when you use the word corn. I believe I 

 have related it before, but I will relate again, that 

 being in a tavern in Long Island, in the year 

 1817^ where the landlord, whose name was 

 Howell, and who was a very worthy man, was 

 showing to me and my sons, and to two Frenchmen 

 that were with us, some of the longest and finest 

 ears of his corn, which he had just then gathered 

 in. After looking at them for some time, and 

 expressing a due portion of admiration at their 

 length and circumference, I, with apparent care- 

 lessness, pulled out of my pocket an English 

 Courier newspaper, in a paragraph of which the 

 Editor, in a style of deep but decorous lamentation, 

 usual on such occasions, was sorry to have to 

 state, that the son of a noble Peer, who had gone 

 to Paris to be present at some grand display of 

 the Duke of Wellington, was in a very dan- 

 gerous state, from having swallowed a ivhole ear 

 of corn. HoA^^ELL, who had paid very little at- 

 tention to the lachrymose part of the paragraph, 

 started up upon hearing the conclusion, and ex- 



