IX.] CORN IS APPLrCABLE. 



during his whole life, in order that he might be able 

 to puff you up into something with the name of 

 gentleman attached to it, that you might render 

 his conduct the subject of ridicule, and by impli- 

 cation libel his memory. I did not tell the prig 

 this ; but I told him to remember, that if his fa- 

 ther had not killed his own meat, that which 

 made him now an attorney, and gave him a 

 good solid estate (which his father had left him), 

 would have gone, in part at least, to the fitting 

 out of retail butchers with gigs, their wives with 

 fine clothes, and their daughters with pianos. It 

 is very much '^ moo'' one week, '^ grunf the 

 next week, " baa'' another week, and '^ maa" 

 another; but let the shameless wretch, who thinks 

 this a hardship, look not at the farmer's labour- 

 ers who eat solid fat bacon or pork, from the 

 morning of one Christmas-day to the evening of 

 the next Christmas-eve ; but let the despicable 

 the affectedly luxurious wretch, look at the boys 

 of Winchester-school, who, generally, have been 

 brought up luxuriously enough ; but who, at that 

 school, never taste any meat but mutton, from 

 the day they enter it to the day they leave it. I 

 mention, I return to, and I dwell upon, this 

 mode of feeding a large family with the more 

 earnestness, because meat is the most costly ar- 

 ticle in supporting a family, and because I am 

 convinced that this mode of doing the thing pro- 



