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wish we could get some Samp ;" but to have 

 samp, the skins of the grains of the corn must 

 be beaten off. Full of contrivances, as all 

 Yankees are, he put some corn into the bottom 

 of a barrel, I think it was, and thumped it with 

 a hand-spike ; all done in a very clean manner; 

 and made us some samp ; the eating of which 

 samp, gave rise to a dispute upon a question re- 

 lating to the fair sex, or, as the Irish call them, to 

 the " heavenly part of the creation ;" the nature 

 and result of which dispute I am induced to give 

 an account of here, for the benefit of both sexes ; 

 and particularly for the benefit of young men. 

 Samp has ascribed to it a quality which has a 

 tendency to produce effects precisely the oppo- 

 site of those which are aimed at in the doctrines 

 and precepts of Parson Malthus, Peter 

 Thimble and Carlile. This may be non- 

 sense, as far as I know, but this is what people 

 say. The Frenchman, notwithstanding his na- 

 tional conceit and pride on this subject of 

 cookerv, was delighted with the Samp, which 

 he liked not for his o\v\\ sake, but because his 

 intended at New York was so very fond of it. 

 M'^hen a Frenchman is in love, or when he con- 

 ceits that any girl is in love with him, he takes 

 care to tell all the world of it ', and this French- 

 man had been bragging to us, from the first mo- 

 ment we saw him, about this intended at New 



