USES TO WHICH [Chap. 



4,10ns to. I wish as much as other people, after 

 securing the point of good living, to go tp work 

 in the cheapest manner I can. The fattest of 

 bacon and of pork, and the fattest of all other 

 sorts of meat; and either fatting the animals 

 myself, or purchasing them from the fatter, or 

 from only one remove, or two removes at most, 

 from him. 1 regulate myself by the season of the 

 year ; but for the greater part of it, in the cases 

 where I am not the fatter myself, I stop the whole 

 carcsLss in the hands of him who kills the ani- 

 mal. Then, again, in the sort of meat, I do not 

 deal very largely with poulterers, nor with fish- 

 mongers. Billingsgate is troublesome and tick- 

 lish ; and as to poultry of any sort, they come 

 from the country by scores, dead or alive, when 

 I have a fancy for them. To be sure, in the former 

 case, there is a very swift succession of poultry ; 

 and it is somewhat the same in the case of meat. 

 I remember a prig of an attorney, whose good, 

 plain, and industrious father, who was a farmer, 

 had sent him up to London to make him a gentle- 

 man, saying, that his father used to kill his own 

 meat, and that it was '^ all haa one week, and maa 

 another week 5 "and, thou foolish beast, where was 

 the harm of that ? The harm was, that your fru- 

 gal, and kind, and foolish father deprived himself 

 of many things which he ought to have enjoyed 

 in the latter part of his life, and, indeed, nearly 



