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quantity by being put into the oven ; and, in the 

 Southern States of America they form a very 

 large part of the bread, even of persons in the 

 most opulent circumstances, who, in many cases, 

 actually prefer this unleavened bread to bread 

 that has been made by a process that includes 

 fermentation. I do not say that I 'prefer it; 

 because I care so little about the matter 5 but I 

 should think it no hardship ; it would be a thing 

 that I should not think worth a moment's thought, 

 if a law were passed to compel me to refrain from 

 fermented bread as long as I lived 3 and, observe, 

 I am not like fat Mrs. Tomkins, who (as I once 

 related in the Register), says to fatter Mrs. 

 Wilkin s, '' If I have but a potatoe. Ma'am, I 

 never want a bit of bread to my dinner." Now, I, 

 on the contrary, never want either to see or to 

 hear of a potatoe; and it is rare indeed that I 

 touch garden-stuff of any sort. So, that I should 

 find no relief by resorting to the garden \ and 

 yet, if a halfjDenny were tossed up, heads for bread 

 and tails for corn-cakes, I would not, really, give 

 mvself the trouble of looking to see whether it came 

 down heads or tails. Far different, with regard to 

 wheat-cakes, or rye-cakes, or oat-cakes, they 

 being lumpy stuff which I by no means admire. 

 Think, then, once more, of the benefit to the 

 labouring man. He and his family come home 

 from reaping, or from any other work. A little 



