IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



above the top of her head, bringing them down 

 as low as her knees, and the palms upwards : 

 "je ne le ferai pas!'' Laying a triplicate 

 emphasis upon the word PAS. 1 will not do it ! 

 That word " not" thus pronounced, including in 

 it the meaning of " I'll be d— d if I do.'' The 

 poor " mi Lor" was compelled to submit^ and to 

 eat his gigot, slivered up and served to him in 

 some '^ fricot^' with all manner of herbs and 

 spices, and sweets and sours 5 and cooked in the 

 melting of some bacon fat, till at last it had no 

 more the taste of mutton, than it had the taste^ 

 I dare say, of any other sort of meat that she 

 could have cooked him. There is something 

 quite astonishing at this insolence of the French, 

 who are in general ready enough to imitate 

 the follies and the vices of the English 3 and, 

 in nothing does this insolence so frequently ap- 

 pear as in their commentaries on our puddings. 

 They call them lumps ofclovgh, in their language 

 " de la pdtey When 1 first went to the United 

 States, there was a French lad, who boarded in 

 my house, and, of course, he very frequently 

 had puddings put before him. He used to re- 

 coil at the sight, shake his head and shrug up 

 his shoulders, and exclaim " de la p^te," instead 

 of which he wanted bread; and, situated as we 

 were, amidst a scarcity of yeast, not near a 

 baker's shop, liis taste became troublesome. I 



