IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



come athwart the mind to form a draw-back to 

 the pleasure : the corn is safe in the Cri!), where 

 it meets your eye fifty times a day, and where it 

 is safe from those vermin, the thought of which 

 diminishes the pleasure arising from the sound of 

 the two flails. 



MAN- FEEDING. 



153. This is so important a part of the sub- 

 ject, that I feel it to be right, as well on ac- 

 count of convenience to the reader, as on that 

 of showing respect for the superior dignity of 

 the feeder, to give to my paragraphs on this 

 part of my subject, a separate head. I have 

 been frequently asked, by persons who have come 

 to see my field of corn, especially by the ladies 

 and gentlemen who pass the greater part of their 

 lives under the roofs of houses, " Vv^ill it make 

 bread, Mr. Cobbett ? " " Why, Ma'am, suppose 

 it do not make bread, but makes bacon, pork, 

 beef, mutton, house-lamb, turkeys, geese, ducks, 

 and fowls ?" " Why, to be sure, Sir, that is a great 

 deal.'' This has generally been pretty nearly the 

 whole of what has passed on such occasions, 

 which, from my perseveringly shutthig myself up, 

 and being at work indeed, have very seldom oc- 

 curred. Rousseau says, " Personne n'aime a 

 ^tre questionne, sur tout les enfans." No body 

 likes to be questioned, and particularly children, 

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